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• Cynthia (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Maurice Hewlett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Derrick Vaughan, Novelist, by Edna Lyall (Gutenberg text)
• Fennel and Rue, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Seven Keys to Baldpate (New York: Buccaneer Books, c1913), by Earl Derr Biggers (Gutenberg text)
• Antic Hay (London: Chatto and Windus, c1923), by Aldous Huxley (Gutenberg text)

• The Golden Notebook (originally published 1962; with extensive online discussion from 2008 and 2009), by Doris Lessing (HTML with commentary at thegoldennotebook.org)
• The Golden Violet: The Story of a Lady Novelist (originally published in 1936 under Joseph Shearing pseudonym; this edition 1943), by Marjorie Bowen, contrib. by Sinclair Lewis (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Legend (London: Heinemann, 1919), by Clemence Dane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Touchstone, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Figure in the Carpet (London: M. Secker, c1916), by Henry James
  • Gutenberg text
  • 1919 reprint: page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google

• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Young Howells and John Brown: Episodes in a Radical Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Edwin Harrison Cady (PDF at Ohio State)
• Hawthorne, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Hawthorne and His Circle, by Julian Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• James Fenimore Cooper (sixth edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886), by Thomas R. Lounsbury (PDF at gasl.org)
• James Fenimore Cooper, by Mary Elizabeth Phillips (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, by George Lewis Prentiss, contrib. by E. Prentiss (Gutenberg text)
• Memories of Hawthorne, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Gutenberg text)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, by George Edward Woodberry (Gutenberg text)
• Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Horatio Bridge (HTML at ibiblio.org)
• A Study of Hawthorne, by George Parsons Lathrop (Gutenberg text)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, by Julian Hawthorne (illustrated HTML and commentary at ibiblio.org)

• Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper, Edited by His Grandson, James Fenimore Cooper (some printed issues as 2 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922), by James Fenimore Cooper, ed. by James Fenimore Cooper, contrib. by Susan Fenimore Cooper
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • single-volume printing: PDF at gasl.org
• Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography (New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, 1922), by Meade Minnigerode, contrib. by Herman Melville (page images at Google; US access only)

• James Fenimore Cooper (sixth edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886), by Thomas R. Lounsbury (PDF at gasl.org)
• James Fenimore Cooper, by Mary Elizabeth Phillips (Gutenberg text)
• American Prose Masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry James (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by W. C. Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hawthorne, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, by George Edward Woodberry (Gutenberg text)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: How to Know Him (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, c1918), by George Edward Woodberry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Study of Hawthorne, by George Parsons Lathrop (Gutenberg text)
• Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives (Gutenberg text)
• American Prose Masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry James (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by W. C. Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches From Concord and Appledore, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)

• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Willa Cather: A Literary Life (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, c1987), by James Leslie Woodress (HTML at unl.edu)

• A Book About Myself (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1922), by Theodore Dreiser (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hawkes Scrapbook: A New Taste in Literature, by John Hawkes, ed. by C. W. Tazewell (HTML at archive.org)

• The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, by George Lewis Prentiss, contrib. by E. Prentiss (Gutenberg text)

• Play Together, Dark Blue Twenty, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)

• The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career, by L. M. Montgomery (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Me: A Book of Remembrance (New York: The Century Co., 1915), by Onoto Watanna (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career, by L. M. Montgomery (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Me: A Book of Remembrance (New York: The Century Co., 1915), by Onoto Watanna (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• The True Story of My Life: An Autobiography (London and New York: John Lane, 1908), by Alice M. Diehl
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Jane Austen Among Women (originally published 1992; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Deborah Kaplan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Jane Austen, by Oscar W. Firkins (HTML at mollands.net)
• Jane Austen and Her Times, by G. E. Mitton (HTML at mollands.net)
• A Memoir of Jane Austen, by Her Nephew (second edition, 1871), by James Edward Austen-Leigh (HTML at labrocca.com)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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