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• The Subjection of Women (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869), by John Stuart Mill (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Subjection of Women (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869), by John Stuart Mill (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Education and Employment of Women, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)

• Mr. Emerson's Revolution (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Jean McClure Mudge (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Half a Century (1880), by Jane Grey Swisshelm (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)

• Marriage as a Trade (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909), by Cicely Hamilton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

• The Education and Employment of Women, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)

• Marriage as a Trade (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909), by Cicely Hamilton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

• The Education and Employment of Women, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)

• In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Kristin Kalsem (PDF at Ohio State)

• Remarkable Russian Women in Pictures, Prose and Poetry (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Marcelline J. Hutton (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Lives and Culture (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2012), ed. by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tosi
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google

• A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Slaveholder's Daughter, by Belle Kearney (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice, by Frank Moore (page images at MOA)
• A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Doctor Zay (main text is from Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1882), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, contrib. by William Dean Howells (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Doctor Zay (11th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1888), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • HTML at Emory
  • HTML at Emory

• Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (New York: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898), by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Education of Woman, by Thomas Holmes (page images at MOA)

• Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (New York: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898), by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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

• The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (c2011), ed. by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• The Awakening of Women: or, Woman's Part in Evolution (second edition; London: W. Reeves, ca. 1905), by Frances Swiney (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co., 1894), by C. C. Stopes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ester Hath Hang'd Haman, by Ester Sowernam (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Feminist Movement (London and Glasgow: Collins' Clear Type Press, ca. 1912), by Ethel Snowden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lady: Studies of Certain Significant Phases of Her History (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by Emily James Putnam
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Religion of Woman: An Historical Study (London: Watts and Co., 1908), by Joseph McCabe, contrib. by Florence Dixie
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Woman Free (Congleton: Woman's Emancipation Union, 1893), by E. C. Wolstenholme Elmy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Long Road of Woman's Memory, by Jane Addams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The War and the Women (New York: Metropolitan Magazine Co., 1915), by Israel Zangwill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Woman, Her Character, Culture and Calling: A Full Discussion of Woman's Work in the Home, the School, the Church and the Social Circle, With an Account of Her Successful Labors in Moral and Social Reform (Brantford, ON: Book and Bible House, 1890), ed. by B. F. Austin, contrib. by Frances E. Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Women of the Teutonic Nations (Woman in All Ages and in All Countries v8; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907), by Hermann Schoenfeld (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Radicalism in Religion, Philosophy, and Social Life: Four Papers from The Boston Courier for 1858, by George Lunt (page images at MOA)
• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1858), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Eighteenth-Century Woman (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Olivier Bernier (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks, by John Millar (text at McMaster)
• Le Trésor de la Cité des Dames de Degré en Degré (in French), by Christine de Pisan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Gender and Historiography: Studies in the Earlier Middle Ages in Honour of Pauline Stafford (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2012), ed. by Janet L. Nelson, Susan Reynolds, and Susan M. Johns (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
• The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Craig M. Rustici (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany (c2008), by Erika Lauren Lindgren (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)
• Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian Town Society, 1100-1300, by Heath Dillard (PDF files at Libro)
• Women Healers in Medieval Life and Literature (New York: King's Crown Press, 1943), by Muriel Joy Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of Six Mediaeval Women: To Which is Added, A Note on Mediaeval Gardens (London: Macmillan and Co., 1913), by Alice Kemp-Welch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (HTML at Wisconsin)

• Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman, by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman (new and complete edition; New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• Women's History (full serial archives)

• Haec-Vir, or, The Womanish-Man: Being an Answere to a Late Booke Intituled Hic-Mulier (London: Printed for I. T., 1620) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hic Mulier, or, The Man-Woman (1620) (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Education of Women During The Renaissance (dissertation; Washington: National Capital Press, 1916), by Mary Agnes Cannon (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.