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• Miss Lulu Bett: An American Comedy of Manners (stage play, two endings; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1921), by Zona Gale (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Quality Street: A Comedy (New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1920), by J. M. Barrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Quality Street: A Comedy (New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1923), by J. M. Barrie (Gutenberg text)

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

• Books of Interest and Consolation to Spinsters (1904), by Lutie Eugenia Stearns (page images at Ohio Memory)

• Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle (third edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1789), by Charlotte Smith
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
  • Volume IV: page images at Google

• Lolly Willowes: or, The Loving Huntsman (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Sylvia Townsend Warner (multiple formats at HathiTrust)

• Miss Lulu Bett (novel), by Zona Gale (Gutenberg text)
• More Tish, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg text)
• My Old Maid's Corner (New York: The Century Co., 1903), by Lillie Hamilton French (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Ladies (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Hugh Walpole (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reveries of a Spinster (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897), by Helen Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agnes Grey (Oxford: B. Blackwell; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1931), by Anne Brontë
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net
• Agnes Grey (London: T. C. Newby, 1847), by Anne Brontë (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Clever Woman of the Family, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Daisy Chain, or, Aspirations, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• Miss Mackenzie, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Death of Harriett Frean (first edition and manuscript), by May Sinclair (illustrated HTML and page images here at Penn)
• Säätynsä Uhri (Finnish translation of "The House of Mirth"; Kelsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Kirja, 1922), by Edith Wharton, trans. by Armas Hämäläinen (Gutenberg text)
• The Odd Women, by George Gissing
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Ex-Wife (New York: J. Cape and H. Smith, 1929), by Ursula Parrott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• Peggy at Spinster Farm (based on the 1908 Grosset and Dunlap book edition, with additional material from the earlier magazine serial), by Helen M. Winslow, ed. by Louise Hope, illust. by Mary G. Huntsman (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• The Blue Castle: A Novel (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1926), by L. M. Montgomery (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1917), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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 Quest for Security: Employees, Tenants, Wives (Hamlyn Lectures, #34; London: Stevens and Sons, 1982), by Tony Honoré (PDF in the UK)

• 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)

• A Pageant of Great Women (London: The Suffrage Shop, 1910), by Cicely Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Convent of Pleasure (as first published in 'Plays, never before printed'; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1668), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother (original 1700; modern acting edition edited for the Snarks Ltd., 1999), by Mary Pix, ed. by Sally Scanlon (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• The Creditor: A Play in One Act (London: Hendersons, 1914), by August Strindberg, trans. by Horace B. Samuel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1914), by A. E. W. Mason
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ihminen ja Yli-Ihminen: Komedia ja Filosofia (Man and Superman in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1906), by Bernard Shaw, trans. by Aino Malmberg (Gutenberg text)
• A Kiss for Cinderella: A Comedy (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1920), by J. M. Barrie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Kiss for Cinderella: A Comedy (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923), by J. M. Barrie
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Lost Silk Hat, by Lord Dunsany (PDF at astorialand.com)
• Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy, by Bernard Shaw
  • with "Revolutionist" appendices; HTML at Bartleby
  • introduction and play only; Gutenberg text
• The Merchant Prince of Cornville: A Comedy (fourth edition; Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Co., ca. 1899), by Samuel Eberly Gross (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Penelope: A Comedy in Three Acts (London: W. Heinemann, 1912), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)
• Pygmalion, by Bernard Shaw
  • illustrated HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Sir Patient Fancy: A Comedy As it is Acted at the Dukes Theatre (London: Printed by E. Flesher for R. Tonson, 1678), by Aphra Behn (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act (New York and London: S. French, c1923), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• To See Ourselves: A Domestic Comedy in Three Acts (c1931), by E. M. Delafield (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Candida, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)
• Candida (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1909), by Bernard Shaw, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg text)
• The Cat and the Canary: A Melodrama in Three Acts (London and New York: S. French, ca. 1954), by John Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Reunion In Vienna: A Play in Three Acts (c1932), by Robert E. Sherwood (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Convent of Pleasure (as first published in 'Plays, never before printed'; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1668), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Cat and the Canary: A Melodrama in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1927), by John Willard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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