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• The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland, by E. Lynn Linton
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume III: HTML at Indiana
• The Beth Book: Being a Study from the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius (London: W. Heinemann, 1898), by Sarah Grand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Beth Book: Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius (New York: D. Appleton, 1897), by Sarah Grand (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Diana of Dobson's (novel; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1908), by Cicely Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Noble Woman (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1871), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text)
• The Modern Griselda: A Tale (third edition, corrected; London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1813), by Maria Edgeworth
  • HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Munster Village: A Novel (2 volumes; London: Printed for Robson and Co., et al., 1778), by Mary Hamilton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• A Writer of Books (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by George Paston (multiple formats at Google; US access only)

• Lolly Willowes: or, The Loving Huntsman (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Sylvia Townsend Warner (multiple formats at HathiTrust)

• Henrietta (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for A. Millar, 1761), by Charlotte Lennox (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text

• Letters From Juliet Lady Catesby, to Her Friend Lady Henrietta Campley (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1760), by Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Meziéres Riccoboni, trans. by Frances Brooke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Hotel (New York: L. Mac Veigh, the Dial Press; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928), by Elizabeth Bowen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML and TEI at UNC

• A Modern Chronicle (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910), by Winston Churchill, illust. by James Hamlin Gardner Soper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Modern Chronicle, by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)

• The Miller of Old Church (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1911), by Ellen Glasgow (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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

• From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2005), ed. by Arlene Voski Avakian and Barbara Haber (PDF at umass.edu)
• Freeing the Feminine (1985), by Elspeth Strachan and Gordon Strachan (HTML at womenpriests.org)
• Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2010), ed. by Carol Lee Bacchi and Joan Eveline (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men: To Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery; In Reply to a Paragraph of Mr. Mill's Celebrated "Article on Government" (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green; and Wheatley and Adlard, 1825), by William Thompson
  • page images at LSE
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Business of Being a Woman (New York et al.: Macmillan, 1921), by Ida M. Tarbell (Gutenberg text)
• Civilization and Womanhood (Boston: R. G. Badger; Toronto: Copp-Clark Co., c1916), by Harriet B. Bradbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Domestic Problem: Work and Culture in the Household (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1875), by Abby Morton Diaz (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Domestic Problem: Work and Culture in the Household (1895), by Abby Morton Diaz (Gutenberg text)
• The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures (1881), by Frances Power Cobbe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Eden Sphinx (1916), by Annie Riley Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Defense of Women (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by H. L. Mencken (page images at Harvard)
• In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text)
• In Times Like These (Toronto: McLeod and Allen, 1915), by Nellie L. McClung (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Man-Made World, or Our Androcentric Culture, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Gutenberg text)
• Marriage as a Trade (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909), by Cicely Hamilton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Modern Women and What is Said of Them: A Reprint of a Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (New York: J. S. Redfield, 1868), by E. Lynn Linton, contrib. by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• The Morality of Woman, and Other Essays (Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., c1911), by Ellen Key, trans. by Mamah Bouton Borthwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A New Atmosphere (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1872), by Gail Hamilton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Womanhood (New York: Broadway Pub. Co., 1904), by Winnifred Harper Cooley (multiple formats at LOC)
• Woman in Transition (London: Methuen and Co., c1907), by Annette M. B. Meakin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Woman Man's Equal (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Nelson and Phillips, 1873), by Thomas Webster (page images at MOA)
• The Woman Movement from the Point of View of Social Consciousness (dissertation; Chicago: Collegiate Press, 1915), by Jessie Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Woman's Thoughts About Women, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (HTML at Indiana)
• Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to "A New Atmosphere" (New York: Harper and Bros., 1872), by Gail Hamilton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Women of Tomorrow (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., 1911), by William Hard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Women the World Over: A Sketch Both Light and Gay, Perchance Both Dull and Stupid (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1914), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie, illust. by W. K. Haselden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Representing Women: Law, Literature, and Feminism (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), ed. by Susan Sage Heinzelman and Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman, contrib. by Martha Minow, Kathryn Abrams, Judy Scales-Trent, Carol Sanger, Angela P. Harris, Linda Brodkey, Michelle Fine, Elizabeth Cullingford, Susan Estrich, Rita Copeland, Margaret Anne Doody, Christine L. Krueger, and Anne Tierney Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why Women Cry: or, Wenches With Wrenches (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, c1943), by Elizabeth Hawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Affection's Gift: A Christmas, New-Year, and Birth-Day Present (2 parts (first by Winslow, second by Sandford) in 1 volume; New York: Leavitt and Allen, ca. 1854), contrib. by Hubbard Winslow and Elizabeth Sandford
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.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)
• Feminism and Sex-Extinction (London: T. F. Unwin, c1920), by Arabella Kenealy
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Human Body the Temple of God: or, The Philosophy of Sociology (1890), by Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It? (5 dreams; Wellesey, MA: Mrs. E. M. F. Denton, ca. 1870), by Annie Denton Cridge (page images at MOA)
• Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It? (9 dreams; from the book and serial publications, 1870), by Annie Denton Cridge (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Mrs. Butler's Appeal to the Women of America, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)
• 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
• Sex and Society (some essays in this edition from journal versions), by William Isaac Thomas (HTML at Brock)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasion'd by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Considered (first edition; London: Printed for J. Nutt, 1700), by Mary Astell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage; With Additions (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Parker, 1730), by Mary Astell (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Eight Million Women Want (1910), by Rheta Childe Dorr (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Woman, Church, and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages, With Reminiscences of the Matriarchate (second edition; New York: The Truth Seeker Company, c1893), by Matilda Joslyn Gage (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Woman Free (Congleton: Woman's Emancipation Union, 1893), by E. C. Wolstenholme Elmy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Family Monitor and Domestic Guide (uniform American edition of The Women of England, The Daughters of England, The Wives of England, and The Mothers of England; New York: E. Walker, ca. 1844), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gloriana: or, The Revolution of 1900 (London: Henry and Co., 1890), by Florence Dixie
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Human Woman (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1908), by Agnes Geraldine Grove (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of British Female Missionaries; With a Survey of the Condition of Women in Heathen Countries (London: W. Smith, 1841), by Thomas Timpson, contrib. by Jemima Luke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (London, New York, Mumbai: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898), by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ladies Defence: or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd (London: Printed for J. Deeve, 1701), by Mary Lee Chudleigh (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Helen Keller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Visits to America (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., c1884), by Emily Faithfull (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Three Visits to America (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., ca. 1884), by Emily Faithfull (illustrated HTML in the UK)

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