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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)
• Le Secrétaire Intime (in French), by George Sand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Letters of Women (New York: Meyer Bros. and Co., 1897), by Marcel Prévost, trans. by Arthur Hornblow
  • multiple formats at Google
  • 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)

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