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• The Private World of High Society (New York: D. McKay Co., c1960), by Lucy Kavaler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bishop's Jaegers (1932), by Thorne Smith (HTML and MS Reader in the UK; NO US ACCESS)

• Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia, By a Southerner (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, Printers, 1841), by Joseph Willson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Eliza Frances Andrews
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Social Register, Buffalo

• The Happiest Time of Their Lives, by Alice Duer Miller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Mrs. Parkington (c1943), by Louis Bromfield (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Wanted: A Chaperon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1902), by Paul Leicester Ford, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy and Margaret Armstrong (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts and Tongues; With An Answer to the Objections Against This Way of Education (London: Printed by J. D. to be sold by T. Parkhurst, 1673), by Bathsua Makin (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Lady Frederick: A Comedy in Three Acts (Chicago: Dramatic Pub. Co., n.d.), by W. Somerset Maugham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Psmith in the City, by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Robert Orange: Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange, and a Sequel to The School for Saints (London: T. F. Unwin, 1900), by John Oliver Hobbes (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Heartsease, or The Brother's Wife, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Inimitable Jeeves (London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1923), by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Memoirs of a Coxcomb (London: The Fortune Press, ca. 1926), by John Cleland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belchamber (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: A. Conctable and Co., 1905), by Howard Overing Sturgis
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Castle of Tynemouth: A Tale (2 volumes; London: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, et al., 1806), by Jane Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Castle of Tynemouth: A Tale (second edition, 2 volumes; Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by E. Mackenzie Jr., 1830), by Jane Harvey (PDF at Chawton House Library)

• At the Court of the Maharaja: A Story of Adventure (New York: American News Co., c1906), by Louis Tracy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Belchamber (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: A. Conctable and Co., 1905), by Howard Overing Sturgis
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Children of the Abbey (based on single-volume 1877 Philadelphia edition), by Regina Maria Roche (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Children of the Abbey: A Tale (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1876), by Regina Maria Roche, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beechcroft at Rockstone, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Castle Builders (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dynevor Terrace, or, The Clue of Life, by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
• Lady Hester: or, Ursula's Narrative, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Long Vacation, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Landed Gentry: A Comedy in Four Acts (Chicago: Dramatic Pub. Co., n.d.), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)

• Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley, Wife of Sir Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan, Knight of the Bath (London: Printed for the Camden Society, 1854), by Brilliana Harley, ed. by Thomas Taylor Lewis
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Secret Chamber at Chad, by Evelyn Everett-Green (Gutenberg text)
• Louisa: or, The Cottage on the Moor (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1787), by Elizabeth Helme
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google

• A Book Explaining the Ranks and Dignities of British Society, Intended Chiefly for the Instruction of Young Persons (London: Printed for Tabart and Co, 1809), by Charles Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Judgment of Paris (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1952), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Became of Anna Bolton (c1944), by Louis Bromfield (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Black Oxen (with stills from the screen version; New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1923), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Californians, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at archive.org
• Maailmankaupunki: Romaani ("The Metropolis" in Finnish; 1911), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• The Metropolis, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (New York: Macmillan, 1914), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• A Chance Acquaintance (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1873), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Flaming Youth (published under "Warner Fabian" pseudonym; New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Innocence (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1920), by Edith Wharton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• A Tale of Red Roses (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1914), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advice to the Privileged Orders in the Several States of Europe, Resulting From the Necessity and Propriety of a General Revolution in the Principles of Government (2 volumes; 1792-1793), by Joel Barlow
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org

• The American, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Emily Fox-Seton: Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst", by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by C. D. Williams (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Henrietta Temple: A Love Story, by Benjamin Disraeli (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lord Dunmersey: His Recollections and Moral Reflections (New York: J. Delay, 1889), by Leander Pease Richardson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Man As He Is Not: or, Hermsprong (18th volume of a "British Novelists" set; London: F. C. and J. Rivington; et al.. 1810), by Robert Bage, contrib. by Mrs. Barbauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• That Affair at Portstead Manor (Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1919), by Gladys Edson Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Lotus (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1927), by Gladys Edson Locke, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Curse of Capistrano (based on the original magazine version, 1919; later editions published as "The Mark of Zorro"), by Johnston McCulley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Tierra de Todos (in Spanish; 1922), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Gutenberg text)
• Love in Excess: or, The Fatal Enquiry (fourth edition corrected; London: Printed for D. Browne Jr., 1722), by Eliza Fowler Haywood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mark of Zorro (illustrated with photographs from the Douglas Fairbanks film; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Johnston McCulley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mark of Zorro (probably from a reprint copy; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831), by William Godwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy (Gutenberg text)
• The Sound and the Fury (originally published 1929), by William Faulkner (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

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