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• Miss Lulu Bett (stage play, two endings; New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921), by Zona Gale (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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

• The Old Ladies (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Hugh Walpole (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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 Reveries of a Spinster (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897), by Helen Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net
• 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)
• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Odd Women, by George Gissing
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text

• 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)

• The Blue Castle (1926), by L. M. Montgomery
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

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

• 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)

• Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Ellen Lewin
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell Open (PDF link might not work)
  • PDF files at JSTOR

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

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

• 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 Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act (New York and London: S. French, c1923), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• 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, by Aphra Behn (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Taming of the Shrew (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. G. Boswell-Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Taming of the Shrew (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Taming of the Shrew (1631 Smithwicke edition), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• The Taming of the Shrew (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (searchable HTML with commentary at shakespeare-navigators.com)
• Taming of the Shrew: A Comedy by William Shakspere, As Arranged by Augustin Daly, First Produced at Daly's Theatre, January 18, 1887, Receiving its One Hundredth Representation April 13, 1887, and Here Printed from the Prompter's Copy (Centenary edition; New York: Privately printed for Mr. Daly, 1887), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Augustin Daly, contrib. by William Winter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Candida, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.