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Unmarried mothers

Here are entered works limited to mothers not married at the time of the birth of their children. Works on mothers who are single for various reasons are entered under Single mothers.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Single mothers

• Illegitimate children

• Unmarried mothers -- England
• Unmarried mothers -- Fiction
• Unmarried mothers -- France
• Unmarried mothers -- Great Britain
• Unmarried mothers -- Services for
• Unmarried mothers -- United States
• Church work with unmarried mothers

• Unwed mothers

• 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)

• Clara Hopgood, by William Hale White (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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

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

• The Unmarried Mother: A Study of Five Hundred Cases (Criminal Science Monograph #3; 1918), by Percy Gamble Kammerer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Love-Children: A Book of Illustrious Illegitimates (New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931), by Miriam Allen De Ford (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Girl from the Marsh Croft (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1910), by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Velma Swanston Howard (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Anthony Adverse (c1933), by Hervey Allen (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• To the Last Man (Roslyn, NY: W. J. Black, c1922), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the Last Man, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Adam Bede, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Adam Bede (New York: J. B. Alden, 1884), by George Eliot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Charlotte Temple, by Mrs. Rowson (Gutenberg text)
• Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Ewer, 1824), by Mrs. Rowson (multiple formats at Google)
• East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wood (Gutenberg text)
• Howards End, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• 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)
• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)
• The Sound and the Fury (originally published 1929), by William Faulkner (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter (Ticknor and Fields edition, 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML at Bartleby)
• Possession (London: Macmillan and Co., 1923), by Mazo De la Roche (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (PDF at gasl.org)
• Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (London: Partridge and Oakley, 1853), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Clotelle (Boston: J. Redpath, 1864), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or, The Colored Heroine (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or The Colored Heroine, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg text)

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

• 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)

• 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

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