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• A declaration of the maids of the city of London, &c. ([London : s.n., 1659]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Clubs for working girls (Macmillan and co., 1890), by Maude Alethea Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home industries of women in London, 1897 : report of an inquiry into thirty-five trades (The Council, 1897), by Women's Industrial Council (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Female Jockey Club (London, printed: New-York, Reprinted: For Greenleaf, Fellows, and Wayland, 1794), by Charles Pigott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Daily pocket journal for the year 1766 (Columbia University Libraries, 1766), by G. Robinson, S. Hooper, J. Roberts, Montgomery Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• To the supream authority of England the Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of diverse wel-affected weomen of the cities of London and Westminster, the borrough of Southwark, hamblets, and places adjacent. Affecters and approvers of the petition of Sept. 11. 1648. ([London : s.n., 1649]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The good vvomens cryes against the excise of all their commodities. Shewing, as the businesse now stands, they are in no case able to bear such heavy pressures, and insupportable burthens, occasioned by the iuncto's new impost on their wares, whereby they are like to fall into great want of trading, and putting off their commodities at the prizes formerly, to the utter undoing of their deare husbands and families for ever. Therefore having a fellow-feeling of one anothers lamentable and languishing cases, (notwithstanding any act to the contrary) have put forwards themselves to seeke redresse of their aggrievances, and inabilities of their over-burthened husbands insufficiencies, and unsatisfying performances in their severall occupations; have convened together in a feminine convention in Doe-little-lane, and tendred their aggrievances and complaints to the consideration of the Common-wealth; desiring speedy redresse therein. / Written by Mary Stiff, Chair-woman, in vineger verse. (Westminster : Printed at the signe of the Hornes in Queen-street, neere my Lord Fairfax's house, and are to be sold at the Dildoe in Distaffe-Lane, 1650), by Mary Stiff (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A remonstrance of the shee-citizens of London. And of many thousands of other the free-borne women of England. Humbly shewing their desires for the attaining of a free trade, for the Kings speedie coming to London, for the maning of their works, and for the redresse of their many other grievances, and burdens they now lie under. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the yeare 1647) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Campaigns of curiosity; journalistic adventures of an American girl in London. (F.T. Neely, 1894), by Elizabeth L. Banks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lise Sanders (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Plan for a Preservatory and Reformatory for the Benefit of Deserted Girls and Penitent Prostitutes (London: R. Francklin, 1758), by John Fielding (multiple formats at Google)
• A plan for a preservatory and reformatory for the benefit of deserted girls and penitent prostitutes (Printed for R. Francklin, 1990), by John Fielding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sooner or later (Harper, 1868), by Shirley Brooks and George Du Maurier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strictures on Mr. Hale's Reply to the pamphlets lately published in defence of the London female penitentiary. (Williams and Smith [etc.], 1809), by G. Hodson and William Blair (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)

• Crewe Train (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926), by Rose Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• One Man's View (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Harley Granville-Barker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Second Floor Mystery: Photoplay Title of The Agony Column (with illustrations from the Warner Bros. film; bound also with Fifty Candles; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1930), by Earl Derr Biggers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Agony Column, by Earl Derr Biggers (Gutenberg text)

• Good Luck (Chicago and New York: M. A. Donohue and Co., 1896), by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• Good Luck (New York: Stitt Pub. Co., 1905), by L. T. Meade (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toilers in London, by One of the Crowd, by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Toilers in London, or, Inquiries Concerning Female Labour in the Metropolis (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1889), by British Weekly Commissioners (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Vom Markte der Seelen; Entdeckungsfahrten einer sozialen Frau im Lande Armut. (R. Vogtländers, 1907), by Olive Christian Malvery MacKirdy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Makers of our clothes; a case for trade boards, being the results of a year's investigation into the work of women in London in the tailoring, dressmaking, and underclothing trades (Duckworth and co., 1909), by Adèle Levis Meyer and Clementina Black (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Home industries of women in London : report of an inquiry by the Investigation Committee of the Council with an account of the development and present condition of home work in relation to the legal protection of the workers and some account of foreign experiments in legislation. (Women's Industrial Council, 1908), by Women's Industrial Council (Great Britain), B. L. Hutchins, and Margaret MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An account of the rise, progress and present state of the Magdalen hospital for the reception of penitent prostitutes; together with Dr. Dodd's sermons, to which are added the Advice to the Magdalens...psalms, hymns, prayers, rules and list of subscribers. (printed by W. Faden for the charity, 1776), by William Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)

• "Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!" / "Isn't That Just Like a Man!" (2 works on opposite sides of one volume; New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1920), by Irvin S. Cobb and Mary Roberts Rinehart
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• The Misogynist Dinner of the American Chemical Society, Boston, August 27, 1880 (New York: Russell Bros., ca. 1880), ed. by Henry Morton (page images with commentary at scihistory.org)
• Fables for the fair (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901), by Josephine Daskam Bacon, Crow Printing Company, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Bien qu'on a dit des femmes (M. Levy, 1855), by Emile Deschanel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observateurs de la femme (Deterville, 1803), by Pierre-Edouard Lemontey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les évangiles des quenouilles. (P. Jannet, 1855), by Jean d'Arras, Antoine Duval, and Fouquart de Cambray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alfabeto (Impr. de la viuda E. Hijo de Bosch, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diccionario de anecdotas, chascos, finezas, estratagemas, caprichos y astucias del sexo femenino, dedicado a la mas mala (Impr. de L. A. Estruch, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Isn't that just like a man!" (G.H. Doran, 1920), by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Irvin S. Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hybrids, an epi-comic satire. (Milwaukee, 1871), by An M. D. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les quinze joyes de mariage. (P. Jannet, 1857), by Antoine de La Sale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les quinze joyes de mariage. (P. Jannet, 1853), by Antoine de La Sale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elementos de gramatica parda, para uso de los hombres. (Librería de F. Fé, 1884), by Adolfo Llanos y Alcaraz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dreyhundert Sätze aus der weiblichen Naturlehre. (Hartl, 1788), by Reinhard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des femmes en chemise! (Edition du Don Juan, 1870), by E. Couturier and René Émery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Images galantes et esprit de l'étranger : Berlin, Munich, Vienne, Turin, Londres : 242 illustrations des journaux Wiener Caricaturen ... [et al.] (Albin Michel éditeur, 1907), by John Grand-Carteret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Physiologie de la femme (J. Laisné éditeur :, 1842), by Étienne de Neufville and Paul Gavarni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maxims of Methuselah : being the advice given by the patriarch in his nine hundred sixty and ninth year to his great grandson at Shem's coming of age, in regard to women (Arthur F. Bird, 1907), by Gelett Burgess, Tom Turner, and Louis D. Fancher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les quinze joies de mariage. (Gernier frères, in the 1890s), by François Tulou and Antoine de La Sale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Hybrids, An Epi-comic Satire, by An M. D. (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les quinze joyes de mariage: Conforme au manuscript de la bibliothèque publique de Rouen (in French), by Antoine de La Sale, ed. by Pierre Jannet (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les évangiles des quenouilles (in French), by Antoine Duval, de Cambray Fouquart, and d'Arras Jean, ed. by Colard Mansion (Gutenberg ebook)
• Evangiles des quenouilles. English. ([[London] : Enprynted at London in Flete strete at the sygne of the sonne by Wynkyn de Worde, [ca. 1510]]), by Henry Watson, de Cambray Fouquart, Antoine Duval, and d'Arras Jean (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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