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• Gentle breadwinners : the story of one of them (Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by Catherine Owen, Sarah Whitman, and Houghton Mifflin Company (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Struggle and development among self employed women : a report on the Self Employed Women's Association, Ahmedabad, India (The Office, 1982), by Jennefer Sebstad and United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Urban Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of a book agent (A. Nelles, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond and Roger E. Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Struggle and development among self employed women : a report on the Self Employed Women's Association, Ahmedabad, India (The Office, 1982), by Jennefer Sebstad and United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Urban Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors In Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Susan Ingalls Lewis (PDF at Ohio State)

• Women entrepreneurs their success and problems : hearing before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session on women entrepreneurs, their success and problems, Eugene, Oreg.--May 30, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bright ideas for money-making: over two hundred practical ideas for women for the making of the needed where-withal, among many which may be carried out at home; with a chapter devoted to suggestions for boys and girls. (G. W. Jacobs, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Convert (main text from Women's Press reprint, 1980), by Elizabeth Robins (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Thirteen Women (New York: Triangle Books, 1941), by Tiffany Thayer, illust. by David Berger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Awakening of Helena Richie, by Margaret Deland (Gutenberg text)
• The Convert (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Elizabeth Robins (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (facsimile of 1621 edition; with Pamphilia to Amphilanthus appended), by Mary Wroth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dernières Lettres de Femmes (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1897), by Marcel Prévost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ellinor: or, The World As It Is (4 volumes; London: Printed at the Minerva Press for W. Lane, 1798), by Mary Ann Hanway
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• Flaming Youth (published under "Warner Fabian" pseudonym; New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text)
• A Flash of Summer: The Story of a Simple Woman's Life (London: Methuen and Co., 1895), by Mrs. Clifford (HTML at Emory)
• The Foolish Virgin, by Thomas Dixon (Gutenberg text)
• The Foolish Virgin: A Romance of Today (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1915), by Thomas Dixon, illust. by Walter Tittle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Gossip's Story, and a Legendary Tale (second edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for T. N. Longman, 1797), by Jane West (page images at Google)
• Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Julia: A Novel, Interspersed With Some Poetical Pieces (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790), by Helen Maria Williams (HTML at Michigan)
• Letters of Women (New York: Meyer Bros. and Co., 1897), by Marcel Prévost, trans. by Arthur Hornblow
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Lettres de Femmes (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1892), by Marcel Prévost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft (Gutenberg text)
• Mary: A Fiction, by Mary Wollstonecraft (Gutenberg text)
• Mizora: A Prophecy (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1890), by Mary E. Bradley Lane (Gutenberg text and page images)
• My Trivial Life and Misfortune, by a Plain Woman: A Gossip With No Plot in Particular (3 volumes; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (London: Tower Pub. Co.; Newcastle-on-Tyne: Lambert and Co., ca. 1889), by Mrs. George Corbett (Gutenberg text)
• Nouvelles Lettres de Femmes (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, n.d.), by Marcel Prévost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Silent Struggles (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1865), by Ann S. Stephens
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Simply Women: Selections from the Works of Marcel Prévost (New York: Macaulat, 1910), by Marcel Prévost, trans. by R. I. Brandon-Vauvillez (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "The Ladies!" A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, by L. Adams Beck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Women (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady (c1927), by H. G. Wells (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole (1899), by Anna Adolph
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Beulah, by Augusta J. Evans (Gutenberg text)
• The Cottagers of Glenburnie; With a Memoir of the Life of the Author (London and Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers. 1859), by Elizabeth Hamilton (page images at Google)
• The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary (New York: John Lane Company, 1911), by Karin Michaëlis, contrib. by Marcel Prévost
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Diplomatic Woman (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1900), by Huan Mee
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Female Quixote: or, The Adventures of Arabella, by Charlotte Lennox (multiple formats with commentary at girlebooks.com)
• The Female Quixote: or, The Adventures of Arabella (second edition, 2 volumes; London: A. Millar, 1752), by Charlotte Lennox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Female Quixote, or, The Adventures of Arabella (text from an 1810 edition and illustrations from a 1799 edition), by Charlotte Lennox, ed. by Mrs. Barbauld, illust. by Richard Corbould and Thomas Kirk (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Lilian (London et al.: Cassell and Co., c1922), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The White Riband: or, A Young Female's Folly (New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1921), by F. Tennyson Jesse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Margaret Warrener (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901), by Alice Brown and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of woman's trials (Wallis & Newell, 1835), by Mrs. S. C. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Star of hope and the staff of duty (James Hogg and Sons, 1800), by Julian Portch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kristin Lavransdatter: The bridal wreath, The mistress of Husaby, The cross (A. A. Knopf, 1929), by Sigrid Undset, J. S. Scott, and Charles Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joanna Godden (E. P. Dutton & company, inc., 1922), by Sheila Kaye-Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Believe you me! (George H. Doran Company, 1919), by Nina Wilcox Putnam and George H. Doran Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journal of a neglected wife (B.W. Dodge & Company, 1909), by Mabel Herbert Urner and B.W. Dodge & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fate of a fairy, or, Twenty seven years in the far west (M. A. Donohue & Co., 1910), by Ellen E. Jack and M.A. Donohue & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constance Verrier (Michel Lévy frères, 1860), by George Sand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last word (L.C. Page & Company, 1902), by Alice MacGowan and Florence Luscomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young Howson's wife (Quail & Warner, 1902), by A. E. Watrous (page images at HathiTrust)
• Casimir Maremma / 1 (Bell and Daldy, 1870), by Arthur Helps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tribunal of blood. (J. Clements, 1841), by Leonhard Wächter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Frauenzimmer im neunzehnten Jahrhundert; ein Traumgesicht. (Wien, 1781), by Johann Rautenstrauch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two lives: or, To seem and to be. (D. Appleton, 1847), by Maria J. McIntosh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The woman's kingdom. A love story. (Harper & Brothers, 1869), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old lady Mary; a story of the seen and the unseen. (Roberts, 1896), by Mrs. Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman's ambition : a tale (Samuel Tinsley, 1875), by M. L. Lyons and Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei Frauen : roman (G. Pierson's Verlag, 1901), by August Niemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The salamander (McLeod & Allen, 1914), by Owen Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Josiah Allen on the woman question (F.H. Revell, 1914), by Marietta Holley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The dangerous age letters & fragments from a woman's diary (Bell & Cockburn, 1912), by Karin Michaëlis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The yellow wall paper (Small, Maynard, 1901), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girls (Grosset and Dunlap, 1921), by Edna Ferber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The house of hidden treasure (D. Appleton and Company, 1898), by Maxwell Gray, Amy Richards, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two modern women : a novel (J.B. Lippincott, 1890), by Catherine Boott Gannett Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine (The Century Co., 1913), by Frank R. Stockton, Frederic Dorr Steele, and Century Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lamb to the slaughter ; an American girl's experience in the Orient from the China-Japan War to the relief of Peking (Patriot Pub. Co., 1901), by Lee Welling Squier and Patriot Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madam big (Vixen Press, 1953), by Barry Devlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Las mujeres galantes de mi época : colección de películas sociales tomadas de la vida real (Denuble, 1922), by Xavier Santero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homicide hussy (Fawcett Publications, 1955), by Atha McGuire and James Meese (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• India: the pearl of Pearl River (T. B. Peterson, 1857), by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth and Pa.) T.B. Peterson & Brothers (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden harpoon, or Lost among the floes : a story of the whaling grounds (Beadle, 1865), by Roger Starbuck (page images at HathiTrust)
• White flower of the Apaches. (George Munro, etc., 1872), by George L. Aiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frauenseelen (Berlin : S. Fischer, 1924., 1924), by Gabriele Reuter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vi︠e︡khi : sbornik razskazov (Izd. zhurnala "Rodnai︠a︡ Niva", 1925), by Innokentiĭ Charov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Keynotes, by George Egerton, illust. by Aubrey Beardsley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Excitement for sale, by Stephen Marlowe, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rahab, by Waldo David Frank (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lady Rosamond's book : or, Dawnings of light, by Lucy Ellen Guernsey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Early autumn, by Louis Bromfield (Gutenberg ebook)
• "A Cathcart or a Riggs?", by Roy Norton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rupertsweiler Leut (in German), by Harriet Straub (Gutenberg ebook)
• The curse of gold, by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The extraordinary confessions of Diana Please, by Bernard Capes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rosaleen among the artists, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (Gutenberg ebook)
• Moon-madness, and other fantasies, by Aimée Crocker Gouraud (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation, by Rosa Graul (Gutenberg ebook)
• Moving the Mountain, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Die Hochzeit der Esther Franzenius: Roman (in German), by Toni Schwabe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dirty Work for Doughgod, by W. C. Tuttle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ève victorieuse (in French), by Pierre de Coulevain, illust. by Sewell Collins (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Golden Harpoon; Or, Lost Among the Floes: A Story of the Whaling Grounds, by Roger Starbuck (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Woman of Yesterday, by Caroline Atwater Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Castle of Twilight, by Margaret Horton Potter, illust. by Mabel Harlow and Charlotte Weber-Ditzler (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Princess Sonia, by Julia Magruder, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Day of Small Things, by Anne Manning (Gutenberg ebook)
• Heritage, by V. Sackville-West (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wedding Day, by Winston K. Marks (Gutenberg ebook)
• St. Martin's Eve: A Novel, by Henry Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Emigrant, by L. F. Dostoevskaia, trans. by Vera Margolies, contrib. by Stephen Graham (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wanderers, by Mary Johnston (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Modern Madonna, by Caroline Abbot Stanley (Gutenberg ebook)
• L'Adultera: Roman (in German), by Theodor Fontane (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Chinese Coat, by Jennette Lee (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Teacup Club, by Elisa Armstrong Bengough (Gutenberg ebook)
• Experience, by Catherine Cotton (Gutenberg ebook)
• We and Our Neighbors; or, The Records of an Unfashionable Street, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Alfred Fredericks (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Imprudence of Prue, by Sophie Fisher, illust. by Herman Pfeifer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sybil Chase; or, The Valley Ranche: A Tale of California Life, by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Talbot's Angles, by Amy Ella Blanchard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock, by E. Fenwick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Self-control: A Novel, by Mary Brunton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Time and the Woman, by G. Gordon Dewey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Confessions of a Young Lady: Her Doings and Misdoings, by Richard Marsh (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, trans. by Irving Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• Woman, by Magdeleine Marx, trans. by Adele Szold Seltzer, contrib. by Henri Barbusse (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shadows of Flames: A Novel, by Amélie Rives, illust. by Alfred James Dewey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Queen's Twin and Other Stories, by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg ebook)
• La Kantistino (in Esperanto), by Wilhelm Hauff, trans. by Eugen Wüster (Gutenberg ebook)
• Princess Zara, by Ross Beeckman, illust. by Bert Knight (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Other Girls, by A. D. T. Whitney (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Poor Gentleman, by Hendrik Conscience (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ved Vejen (in Danish), by Herman Bang (Gutenberg ebook)

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