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• Barnabys in America (Baudry's European library, 1843), by Frances Milton Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Case of poor widows and orphans of the city of London ([S.l. : s.n., 1685]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The friendly society for widows being a proposal for supplying the defect of joyntures, and securing women from falling into poverty and distress at the death of their husbands. (London : Printed by F.C[ollins]. in the Old-Bailey, 1696) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Laws, etc. (London : Printed for John Wright at the Kings Head in the old Bayley., 1647), by England and Wales and England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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

• Suttee; a historical and philosophical enquiry into the Hindu rite of widow-burning (G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1928), by Edward John Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Private theatricals. (Harper & Brothers, 1921), by William Dean Howells, Mildred Howells, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Learning to live as a widow. (J. Messner, 1957), by Marion Langer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commission on the support of dependent minor children of widowed mothers. January, 1913. (Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1913), by Massachusetts. Commission on support of dependent minor children of widowed mothers and Robert F. Foerster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Widows grave and otherwise (P. Elder and company, 1903), by Cora D. Willmarth (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of nine hundred and eighty-five widows known to certain charity organization societies in 1910 (Charity organization department of the Russell Sage foundation, 1913), by Mary Ellen Richmond, Fred S. Hall, and Russell Sage Foundation. Charity Organization Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Widows can be happy. (Greenberg, 1950), by Jean Z. Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aux veuves de la guerre : les premières heures (Perrin, 1917), by Marie Blanche Angeline Adhémar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The widow : directed to the widow's God (R. Carter, 1855), by John Angell James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Pension-Institute für die Beamten and deren Wittwen und Waisen bei den sechs grossen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaften und bei der Staats-Eisenbahn-Verwaltung in Frankreich. Nebst einem Anhang, enthaltend die derzeit in Kraft stehenden Pensions-Kassen-X Reglements und statistische Nachweisungen. (Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1883), by Linder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wisdom for widows For wives as well as widows, in fact--a book for all women (E.P. Dutton & Co., 1941), by Antoinette Walker Gould Torrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of an investigation of matters relating to the care, treatment and relief of dependent widows with dependent children in the City of New York (New York, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La venve chrétienne: modéles, consolations, espérances. (R. Ruffet & Cie, 1867), by Victory Postel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The widow directed to the widow's God; With an introduction. (D. Appleton & Co., 1844), by John Angell James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Probate confiscation and the unjust laws which govern women (Bacon & Co., 1876), by Mrs. J. W. Stow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected articles on mothers' pensions (The H.W. Wilson company, 1915), by Edna Dean Bullock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mothers on their own. (Harper, 1953), by Elbrun Rochford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young widow(er)s, social security, and marriage (Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, 2003), by Michael J. Brien, David A. Weaver, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, and Boston College. Center for Retirement Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on the law of dower (Carswell & Co., 1882), by M. G. Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law relating to the Hindu widow (Thacker, Spink and Co., 1881), by Trailokyanath Mitra (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le seconde nozze della vedova "intra tempus luctus" e il valore derogatorio del diritto canonico nella dottrina intermedia; memoria. (L. Pierro e figlio, 1905), by Luigi Siciliano Villanueva (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report relative to proposed legislation, providing pensions to widows with children (M. B. Brown Printing & Binding Co.], 1915), by New York (N.Y.). Bureau of Municipal Investigation and Statistics, Robert B. McIntyre, and New York (N.Y.). Office of the Comptroller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suttee : a historical and philosophical enquiry into the Hindu rite of widow-burning (Houghton Mifflin, 1928), by Edward John Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitution of The Widows' Society; together with some account of the institution, and of its proceedings to the present period: (Treadwell's power press., 1823), by Boston Widows' Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• La condition de viduité apposée aux libéralités. (1920), by Jacques Serrand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Widows grave and otherwise (P. Elder and company, 1903), by Cora D. Willmarth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Widows grave and otherwise, ed. by Cora D. Willmarth, illust. by A. F. Willmarth (Gutenberg ebook)
• The plan of a society for making provision for widows, by annuities for the remainder of life; and for granting annuities to persons after certain ages, with the proper tables for calculating what must be paid by the several members, in order to secure the said advantages. / By William Gordon. (Boston: : Sold by Joseph Edwards and John Fleeming., MDCCLXXII. [1772]), by William Gordon (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Widows (2 volumes; Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), ed. by Helena Znaniecka Lopata, contrib. by Robert L. Rubinstein, Jaya Sarma Gujral, Jasoon Koo, Marsel A. Heisel, Jacquiline Touba, Ruth Katz, Nitza Ben-Dor, Evangelina Novero Blust, Linda Roseman, Arthur D. Shulman, Denise R. Barnes, Christine L. Fry, Lauree Garvin, Shirley L. O'Bryant, Anne Victoria Neale, Rubye Wilkerson Beck, Trudy B. Anderson, Jessyna M. McDonald, Margaret Gentry, Linda Rosenman, Phyllis R. Silverman, Anabel O. Pelham, William F. Clark, Anne Martin Matthews, Carol D. H. Harvey, Gordon E. Barnes, Leonard J. Greenwood, and Rose Kabahenda-Nyakabwa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Widows (2 volumes; Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), ed. by Helena Znaniecka Lopata, contrib. by Robert L. Rubinstein, Jaya Sarma Gujral, Jasoon Koo, Marsel A. Heisel, Jacquiline Touba, Ruth Katz, Nitza Ben-Dor, Evangelina Novero Blust, Linda Roseman, Arthur D. Shulman, Denise R. Barnes, Christine L. Fry, Lauree Garvin, Shirley L. O'Bryant, Anne Victoria Neale, Rubye Wilkerson Beck, Trudy B. Anderson, Jessyna M. McDonald, Margaret Gentry, Linda Rosenman, Phyllis R. Silverman, Anabel O. Pelham, William F. Clark, Anne Martin Matthews, Carol D. H. Harvey, Gordon E. Barnes, Leonard J. Greenwood, and Rose Kabahenda-Nyakabwa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Enkeloven (Lov nr. 124 af 29. april 1913) : Tillæg til "Offentlig hjælp", haandbog i forsørgelseslovgivningen ; udførlig praktisk vejledning (G. E. C. Gad, 1914), by Torsten Steinby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)
• Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick : a clean rural comedy in three acts (Walter H. Baker, 1919), by Beale Cormack (page images at HathiTrust)
• A close call, a farce in one act ... (W.H. Baker, 1901), by Grace Luce Irwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karhu : Pila yhdessä näytöksessä (in Finnish), by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, trans. by Reino Silvanto (Gutenberg ebook)

• Ornamenti della gentil donna vedova (Appresso Christoforo Zanetti, 1574), by Giulio Cesare Cabei (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treasure of vowed chastity in secular persons. Also the widdowes glasse. VVritten by the RR. Fathers Leonard Lessius, and Fuluius Androtius, both of the Society of Iesus. Translated into English by I.W. P. ([Saint-Omer : Printed at the English College Press] Permissu superiorum, 1621), by Leonardus Lessius, Fulvio Androzzi, and John Wilson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Plumed Serpent (c1926), by D. H. Lawrence
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Dark Hollow (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1914), by Anna Katharine Green, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text)
• The Inner Shrine: A Novel of Today (1909), by Basil King, illust. by Frank Craig (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jezebel's Daughter, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• Lady Susan, by Jane Austen
  • HTML with commentary at pemberley.com
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Mistress Branican (new and cheaper illustrated edition; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., n.d.), by Jules Verne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)
• A Widow's Tale, and Other Stories (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1898), by Mrs. Oliphant, contrib. by J. M. Barrie (Gutenberg text)
• What Became of Anna Bolton (c1944), by Louis Bromfield (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Lerouge Affair (v3 in a set of Gaboriau's novels; New York: W. R. Caldwell and Co., c1908), by Emile Gaboriau, illust. by John A. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lerouge Case, by Emile Gaboriau (Gutenberg text)
• The Old Ladies (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Hugh Walpole (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The School for Widows: A Novel (3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Hookham et al., 1791), by Clara Reeve
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• The Third Window (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Gutenberg text)
• The American, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• The Claverings (with illustrations from the magazine and book editions), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by Mary Ellen Edwards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Democracy: An American Novel, by Henry Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Fruit of the Tree, by Edith Wharton, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The inner shrine : a novel of today (Grosset and Dunlap, 1909), by Basil King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democracy; an American novel. (H. Holt and company, 1908), by Henry Adams, Clarence King, and John Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dark hollow (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914), by Anna Katharine Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democracy, an American novel. (Macmillan and Co., 1882), by Henry Adams, Clarence King, and John Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch (Century Co., 1903), by Alice Hegan Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicholas Nickleby (printed at the Riverside Press, 1867), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• At odds; a novel. (B. Tauchnitz, 1863), by Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Widow Bedott papers (Derby & Jackson, 1858), by Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher, Alice B. Haven, and Eve Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Widow Bedott papers (Derby & Jackson, 1856), by Frances M. Whitcher and Alice B. Haven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democracy : an American novel. (H. Holt and Company, 1880), by Henry Adams, Clarence King, and John Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Jane of Kentucky (A. L. Burt, 1907), by Eliza Calvert Hall, Beulah Strong, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dark hollow (Burt, 1914), by Anna Katharine Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dawn of the new era (James H. West, 1903), by Abbie Daniels Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Because you love me (Broadway Publishing Company, 1904), by Mary Randolph and Broadway Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Golden Acres (Arcadia House, 1950), by Cynthia Millburn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Henry James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. (DeWolfe, Fiske & co., 1880), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1877), by Henry James (page images at HathiTrust)
• His darling sin, by M. E. Braddon (Gutenberg ebook)
• The valley of Arcana, by Arthur Preston Hankins (Gutenberg ebook)
• The star dreamer: A romance, by Agnes Castle and Egerton Castle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The book of Evelyn, by Geraldine Bonner, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fiander's Widow: A Novel, by M. E. Francis (Gutenberg ebook)
• New Year's Day (The 'Seventies), by Edith Wharton, illust. by Edward C. Caswell (Gutenberg ebook)
• "Good-Morning, Rosamond!", by Constance Lindsay Skinner, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mrs. Farrell, by William Dean Howells, contrib. by Mildred Howells (Gutenberg ebook)
• Whitewash, by Horace Annesley Vachell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-hand, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Little House, by Coningsby Dawson, illust. by Stella Langdale (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hermia Suydam, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Intrusions of Peggy, by Anthony Hope (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Jack-Knife Man, by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by Hanson Booth (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ruth Erskine's Son, by Pansy, illust. by Louise Clark (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shifting Sands, by Sara Ware Bassett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mrs. Thompson: A Novel, by W. B. Maxwell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ecstasy, A Study of Happiness: A Novel, by Louis Couperus, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel, by Edgar Fawcett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (of 3), by Frances Milton Trollope (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 2 (of 3), by Frances Milton Trollope (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 1 (of 3), by Frances Milton Trollope (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Lame Dog's Diary, by S. Macnaughtan (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Top-Floor Idyl, by George Van Schaick, illust. by Chase Emerson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Land of Long Ago, by Eliza Calvert Hall, illust. by G. Patrick Nelson and Beulah Strong (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Widow [To Say Nothing of the Man], by Helen Rowland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Leonore Stubbs, by Lucy Bethia Walford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hepsey Burke, by Frank N. Westcott, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Woman's Will, by Anne Warner, illust. by I. H. Caliga (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aunt Jane of Kentucky, by Eliza Calvert Hall, illust. by Beulah Strong (Gutenberg ebook)
• At Fault, by Kate Chopin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Country Lodgings, by Mary Russell Mitford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pepita Jiménez (in Spanish), by Juan Valera (Gutenberg ebook)
• Extaze: Een Boek van Geluk (in Dutch), by Louis Couperus (Gutenberg ebook)

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