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• Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel, by Sarah Green (PDF at Chawton House Library)

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

• Her Father's Daughter (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), by Gene Stratton-Porter, illust. by Dudley Gloyne Summers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mavis of Green Hill (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1921), by Faith Baldwin (Gutenberg text)
• Her Father's Daughter, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Jerry (London; New York; Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, c1907), by Jean Webster (Gutenberg text)
• Jerry Junior (New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1907), by Jean Webster, illust. by Orson Lowell (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Jerry Junior (New York: The Century Co., 1907), by Jean Webster, illust. by Orson Lowell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Louisa: or, The Cottage on the Moor (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1787), by Elizabeth Helme
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• The Pale Blonde of Sands Street (New York: Viking Press, 1946), by William Chapman White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Career of Katherine Bush (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Elinor Glyn, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Violet: A Fairy Story (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1856), by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)

• Ranch Romances (partial serial archives)

• Romance (Ridgway magazine, 1919-1929) (partial serial archives)

• Middle Aged Love Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903), by Josephine Daskam Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tattle-Tales of Cupid (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898), by Paul Leicester Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wayside Courtships, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg text)

• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Studies in Love and in Terror (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, c1913), by Marie Belloc Lowndes (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Love and in Terror (second edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Marie Belloc Lowndes (HTML at Emory)

• The Romance Novel in English: A Rare Book Survey, 1769-1999 (2021), by Rebecca Romney (PDF at typepunchmatrix.com)

• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1962), by Howard S. Babb
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, by Queen Marguerite, trans. by Walter K. Kelly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Legal Tender: Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2010), by John Griffith Urang (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Most Delectable and Pleasaunt History of Clitiphon and Leucippe (London: Printed by T. Creede, for W. Mattes, 1597), by Achilles Tatius, trans. by William Burton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Xenophon's Ephesian History: or, The Love-Adventures of Abrocomas and Anthia (based on multiple editions of this translation), by Xenophon of Ephesus, trans. by John Rooke (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus, and Achilles Tatius: Comprising The Ethiopics, or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The Pastoral Amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and The Loves of Clitopho and Leucippe (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1889), by Heliodorus of Emesa, Longus, and Achilles Tatius, ed. by Rowland Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (based on the first editions), by Laurence Sterne, ed. by Günter Jürgensmeier (PDF at gasl.org)

• Dare to be Creative! A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1984), by Madeleine L'Engle, contrib. by John Young Cole and Sybille A. Jagusch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juvenile Story Writing (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., c1922), by Mabel Louise Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sir Walter Scott (c1932), by John Buchan (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• 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

• How to Write a Short Story: An Exposition of the Technique of Short Fiction (New York: Editor Pub. Co., 1906), by Leslie W. Quirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short Stories in The Making: A Writers' and Students' Introduction to the Technique and Practical Composition of Short Stories, Including an Adaptation of the Principles of the Stage Plot to Short Story Writing (New York: Oxford University Press, 1914), by Robert Wilson Neal
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Contemporary Short Story: A Practical Manual (Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1916), by Harry Torsey Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bad Ideas About Writing (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Libraries Digital Publishing Institute, c2017), ed. by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Peggy Kamuf (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014), ed. by Mireille M. M. van Eechoud (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• A Vindication of the Press (1718) (Augustan Reprint Society publication #29; Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1951), by Daniel Defoe, contrib. by Clinton Williams (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Writing Success (New York: The Business bourse, 1933), ed. by J. George Frederick, contrib. by A. A. Brill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Mary Austin, Floyd Dell, and Thomas H. Uzzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Writer's Book: A Compendium of Information Upon Matters Pertaining to the Trade of Authorship (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, c1922), by James Knapp Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Act of Writing: A Media Theory Approach, by Daniel Chandler (Word with commentary in the UK)
• The Art of Short Story Writing (Cincinnati: Publishers Syndicate, 1910), by George Randolph Chester
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Art of Story Writing: Facts and Information About Literary Work of Practical Value of Both Amateur and Professional Writers (New York: Sully and Kleinteich, 1913), by Nathaniel C. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Author's Craft, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Author's Year Book and Guide for 1904: Including Some 600 Names and Addresses of Publishers and Publications to Whom Manuscripts May be Sold (1904), ed. by W. E. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond Life: Dizain des Demiurges (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Craftsmanship of Writing (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Frederic Taber Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• If You Don't Write Fiction (New York: R. M. McBride Co., 1920), by Charles Phelps Cushing (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
• The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-Known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Pub. for the Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), ed. by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
• Conjectures on Original Composition, by Edward Young (HTML at Toronto)
• Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• My First Book (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), contrib. by Walter Besant, William Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Williams Buchanan, and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Principles of Success in Literature, by George Henry Lewes (Gutenberg text)
• The Principles of Success in Literature (London et al.: W. Scott Pub. Co., ca. 1898), by George Henry Lewes, ed. by T. Sharper Knowlson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Stories Editors Buy and Why (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), ed. by Jean Wick (multiple formats at archive.org)

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