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• You Never Can Tell, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• A Doll's House (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1923), by Henrik Ibsen (Gutenberg text)
• A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by William Archer (text at Triton)

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

• My Own Life: or, A Deserted Wife, by Ida M. Beard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Fate of Fenella: A Novel (New York: Cassell Pub. Co., c1892), contrib. by Helen Mathers, Justin H. McCarthy, Frances Eleanor Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle, May Crommelin, F. C. Philips, Rita, Joseph Hatton, Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron, Bram Stoker, Florence Marryat, Julia Frankau, Mrs. Edward Kennard, Richard Dowling, The Duchess, Arthur William À Beckett, Jean Middlemass, Clement Scott, Richard Dehan, Henry W. Lucy, Adeline Sergeant, George Manville Fenn, Tasma, and F. Anstey
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Heart of Rachael, by Kathleen Thompson Norris (Gutenberg text)
• Sarah: or, The Exemplary Wife (Boston: C. Williams, 1813), by Mrs. Rowson (page images at HathiTrust)
• That Wife of Mine (Toronto: J.R. Robertson, 1877), by Mary A. Denison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Studies in Wives (New York: M. Kennerley, c1910), by Marie Belloc Lowndes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice (New York: R.M. McBride and Company, 1922), by James Branch Cabell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice, by James Branch Cabell, illust. by Frank Cheyne Papé (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (fourth edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for L. Gardner, 1768), by Eliza Fowler Haywood
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at Google
  • Volumes I-III: page images at HathiTrust

• East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wood (Gutenberg text)

• After the Divorce: A Romance (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1905), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Maria Hornor Lansdale (Gutenberg text)
• Dopo il Divorzio: Romanzo (in Italian; Turin and Rome: Roux e Viarengo, 1902), by Grazia Deledda (Gutenberg text)

• Virginia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Ellen Glasgow
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Virginia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Ellen Glasgow
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Understanding Violence Against Women, ed. by Nancy A. Crowell and Ann W. Burgess (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey, Who Had Been the Wife of Major Asa Bailey (Boston: S. T. Armstrong, 1815), by Abigail Abbot Bailey, ed. by Ethan Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Shuttle, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text and Librivox audio)
• The Shuttle (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1907), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey, Who Had Been the Wife of Major Asa Bailey (Boston: S. T. Armstrong, 1815), by Abigail Abbot Bailey, ed. by Ethan Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey, Who Had Been the Wife of Major Asa Bailey (Boston: S. T. Armstrong, 1815), by Abigail Abbot Bailey, ed. by Ethan Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by H. Lien Bragg (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)

• Do You Want Your Wife to Work After the War? (1944), by Clifford Kirkpatrick, contrib. by A. G. Mezerik (illustrated HTML at historians.org)

• The Popular Story of Blue Beard: or, Female Curiosity (London: Ryle and Co., ca. 1850), contrib. by Charles Perrault (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Blue Beard (images of pantomime toy book, in various configurations; New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1890), contrib. by Charles Perrault (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Lenny, the Orphan: or, Trials and Triumphs (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1869), by Margaret Hosmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Pretty Sister of José (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• All's Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• The Country Wife, by William Wycherley (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Country-Wife: A Comedy Acted at the Theatre Royal (London: Printed for Thomas Dring, 1675), by William Wycherley (HTML in Canada)
• The Country-Wife: A Comedy Acted at the Theatre Royal (London: Printed for Thomas Dring, 1688), by William Wycherley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Epicoene, by Ben Jonson (Gutenberg text)
• Lady Audley's Secret: An Original Version of Miss Braddon's Popular Novel (play script in two acts; London and New York: S. French, n.d.), by C. H. Hazlewood, contrib. by M. E. Braddon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Merry Wiues of Windsor (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by F. W. Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Shakespeare's Comedy of the Merry Wives of Windsor (New York et al.: American book Co., 1905), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Rolfe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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