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• Parents without partners

• The Road to Understanding (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Mary Shepard Greene Blumenschein
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• How and Why Lisa's Dad Got to Be Famous (c2006), by Michael Allen (PDF in the UK)

• A Little Norsk: or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1892), by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Flight (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Walter White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)

• Stella Dallas: A Novel (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Olive Higgins Prouty (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story (London and New York: J. Lane, 1908), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Katharine Wylde
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Red Ruth: The Birth of Universal Brotherhood (different titles on different pages; Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by Anna Ratner Shapiro, illust. by Carl S. Junge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1911), by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1911), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Clara Hopgood, by William Hale White (Gutenberg text)

• Isabelle (in French), by André Gide (Gutenberg text)

• Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Ellen Lewin
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The President's Daughter (New York: Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc., 1927), by Nan Britton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1995), by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (PDF at cdc.gov)

• Night Sweats: An Unexpected Pregnancy (2013), by Linda Crossett (multiple formats at archive.org via newrambler.net)

• The Case for Father Custody (c1999), by Daniel Amneus (PDF at American Fathers)

• Families Without Fatherhood (third edition, c2000), by Norman Dennis and George Erdos, contrib. by A. H. Halsey and Peter Saunders (PDF at Civitas)

• The Unmarried Mother: A Study of Five Hundred Cases (Criminal Science Monograph #3; 1918), by Percy Gamble Kammerer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Unmarried Mother and Her Child (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1951), by Katharine Corbin Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Families Without Fatherhood (third edition, c2000), by Norman Dennis and George Erdos, contrib. by A. H. Halsey and Peter Saunders (PDF at Civitas)

• And Sin No More: Social Policy and Unwed Mothers in Cleveland, 1855-1990 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Marian J. Morton (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Unmarried Mother and Her Child (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1951), by Katharine Corbin Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Unmarried Mother and Her Child (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1951), by Katharine Corbin Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Stella Dallas: A Novel (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Olive Higgins Prouty (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mary Marie (1920), by Eleanor H. Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Mary Marie (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Helen Mason Grose (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wieland: or, The Transformation; Together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist: A Fragment (New York: Hafner Pub. Co., 1958), by Charles Brockden Brown, ed. by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wieland: or, The Transformation; Together with Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist: A Fragment (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1926), by Charles Brockden Brown, ed. by Fred Lewis Pattee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wieland: or, The Transformation, by Charles Brockden Brown (Gutenberg text)

• To the Lighthouse (first published 1927), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• To the Lighthouse (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Virginia Woolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peggy Stewart (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Gabrielle E. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peggy Stewart at Home (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., 1920), by Gabrielle E. Jackson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Peggy Stewart, Navy Girl, At Home, by Gabrielle E. Jackson (Gutenberg text)

• The Little Grey House (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1904), by Marion Ames Taggart, illust. by Ethel Franklin Betts (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

• Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility: Health Issues for Women and Children (1989), ed. by Allan M. Parnell (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Denise Roth Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Clarissa W. Atkinson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Candles in the Roman Rite (third edition; Baltimore: A. Gross Candle Co., 1937), by Edwin Ryan, illust. by James R. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Read This Before Coming Out to Your Parents (c1995), by Tom Sauerman (HTML at bidstrup.com)

• Enlightened Motherhood: An Address by Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper, Before the Brooklyn Literary Society, November 15th, 1892, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (HTML at loc.gov)

• Nurturing Fatherhood: Improving Data and Research on Male Fertility, Family Formation, and Fatherhood, by Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (HTML at hhs.gov)

• No Basis: What the Studies Don't Tell Us About Same-Sex Parenting (2001), by Robert Lerner and Althea K. Nagai (PDF with commentary at archive.org)

• The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Jeffrey Rosenberg and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• Grandpa! Grandpa! Write Stories to Me! (fourth edition, 2006), by Meyer Moldeven (HTML at AOL)

• Letters to Mothers (Hartford: Hudson and Skinner, 1838), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mother and Her Work (Boston: American Tract Society, c1862), by H. E. Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who Are Creating the Future (London: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1920), by Marie Carmichael Stopes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Family Monitor and Domestic Guide (uniform American edition of The Women of England, The Daughters of England, The Wives of England, and The Mothers of England; New York: E. Walker, ca. 1844), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

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