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• The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York, by Junius Henri Browne (page images at MOA)
• Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City (c1872), by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Darkness and Daylight: or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life (Hartford: A.D. Worthington, 1893), by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, and Thomas Byrnes, contrib. by Lyman Abbott (page images at Harvard)
• My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Fashion: or, Life in New York: A Comedy in Five Acts (London: W. Newbery, 1850), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (multiple formats at Google)

• New Year's Day (The 'Seventies) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• False Dawn (The 'Forties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)

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• My New York (New York: Macmillan, 1930), by Mabel Osgood Wright, illust. by Ivin Sickels (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York (second edition; New York: Henry Collins Brown, 1920), by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Recollections Grave and Gay, by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Dark Metropolis (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1936), by John Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Duke and His Double (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1903), by Edward S. Van Zile, illust. by Florence Scovel Shinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opus 21: Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age; A Concerto for a One-Man Band; Six Arias for Soap Operas; Fugues, Anthems and Barrelhouse (a novel; New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Co., c1949), by Philip Wylie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Good Sports (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1919), by Olive Higgins Prouty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Woman Gives: A Story of Regeneration (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1916), by Owen Johnson, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Day in Bohemia, or Life Among the Artists, by John Reed (HTML at swbell.net)

• The Party (originally published as "Babes and Sucklings"; New York: Popular Library, 1929), by Philip Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cousin Paul (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1868), by Jessie Glenn (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (10-story Macmillan edition), by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Empire City: or, New York by Night and Day, Its Aristocracy and Its Dollars (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Bros., c1864), by George Lippard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Greater Inclination, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• High Life in New York (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1873), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hungry Hearts (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by Anzia Yezierska (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)
• New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sixty-First Second (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1913), by Owen Johnson, illust. by A. B. Wenzell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Buccaneers (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1938), by Edith Wharton (page images at Michigan)

• The Princess Daphne: A Novel (Chicago et al.: Belford, Clarke, and Co., 1888), by Edward Heron-Allen and Selina Dolaro
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Von Toodleburgs: or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1868), by F. Colburn Adams, illust. by Alfred R. Waud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)

• The Problem of the Poor: A Record of Quiet Work in Unquiet Places (New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1882), by Helen Campbell (page images at Harvard)

• The Spark (The 'Sixties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa (A Convert to Christianity); With a Description of That Part of the World; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants (Detroit: G.. E. Pomeroy and Co., 1854), by Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, ed. by Samuel Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood and Co., 1875), by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• In Bad Company, and Other Stories (London and New York: Macmillan, 1901), by Rolf Boldrewood (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Bad Company, and Other Stories (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by Rolf Boldrewood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Recollections of a Rebel Reefer (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by James Morris Morgan
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 (c2008), by Willeen G. Keough (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• Life in Brazil: or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm; With an Appendix, Containing Illustrations of Ancient South American Arts (New York: Harper and Bros., 1856), by Thomas Ewbank
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Californians, by Walter M. Fisher (HTML at LOC)

• Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush (London: R. Bentley, 1853), by Susanna Moodie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush, by Susanna Moodie (Gutenberg text and audio)

• Social Life in Egypt: A Description of the Country and its People: With Illustrations on Steel and Wood (New York: P.F. Collier, 1884), by Stanley Lane-Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters From Cairo, Written During a Residence There in 1842, 3, and 4 (2 volumes digitally combined; London: Charles Knight and Co., 1844), by Sophia Lane Poole (page images at Google)
• The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters From Cairo, Written During a Residence There in 1842, 3, and 4 (Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber and Co., 1845), by Sophia Lane Poole
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bygone England: Social Studies in Historic Byways and Highways (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1892), by William Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• English Life, Social and Domestic, in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, Considered in Reference to Our Position as a Community of Professing Christians (London: B. Fellowes, 1847), by Elizabeth Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, by Washington Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
• The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (2 volume "Van Tassel" edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1895), by Washington Irving, illust. by Allan F. Barraud, Frederick S. Church, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Arthur Rackham, and Julian Rix (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Hills and the Vale (London: Duckworth and Co., 1909), by Richard Jefferies, contrib. by Edward Thomas (Gutenberg text)
• Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829, With Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters, in a Series of Letters (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833), by Hermann Pückler-Muskau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments, by Edmund Gosse (Gutenberg text)
• Ten Years of Upper Canada in Peace and War, 1805-1815: Being the Ridout Letters (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1890), by Thomas Ridout and Matilda Ridout Edgar (multiple formats at archive.org)

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