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• Battle, Laura Elizabeth Lee
• Bryan, Mary Norcott, 1841-1925
• Burwell, Letitia M.
• Harrison, Burton, Mrs., 1843-1920
• Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897
• Jacobs, Phebe Ann, 1785-1850
• Jones, Mother, 1837-1930
• Merrick, Caroline E. (Caroline Elizabeth), 1825-
• Picquet, Louisa, 1828?-
• Saxon, Elizabeth Lyle, 1832-1915
• Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915
• Springer, Maida
• Stewart, Ellen
• Swisshelm, Jane Grey, 1815-1884
• Taylor, Jacqueline, 1951-
• Thompson, Lucy, 1856-
• Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883
• Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954
• Zitkala-Sa, 1876-1938

• American Women: The Report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women (1963), by United States President's Commission on the Status of Women (PDF at dol.gov)
• Ruminations: The Ideal American Lady and Other Essays (second edition, 1894), by Paul Siegvolk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman in the Making of America (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1912), by H. Addington Bruce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Women of America (New York and London: MacMillan, 1904), by Elizabeth McCracken
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Legal and Political Status of Women in the United States: Supplement (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1922), by Jennie L. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Legal and Political Status of Women in the United States (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1912), by Jennie L. Wilson (page images at Harvard)
• American Women and the World War (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Ida Clyde Clarke (illustrated HTML at BYU)
• 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)

• Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1901), by Virginia Tatnall Peacock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Noble Deeds of American Women, by Jesse Clement (page images at MOA)
• Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our Times (Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington, 1884), contrib. by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Mary A. Livermore, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Marion Harland, Mary Clemmer, Louise Chandler Moulton, A. D. T. Whitney, Lucy Larcom, Julia Ward Howe, Susan Coolidge, Kate Sanborn, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, Laura Curtis Bullard, Lilian Whiting, Elizabeth T. Spring, Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, and Maud Howe Elliott
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice, by Frank Moore (page images at MOA)

• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Capitola the Madcap: Part II of The Hidden Hand, by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (Gutenberg text)
• Capitola's Peril: A Sequel to The Hidden Hand (or part 2 of the long version; New York: A. L. Burt Co., n.d.), by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (Gutenberg text)
• Dora Thorne, by Charlotte M. Brame (Gutenberg text)
• The Hidden Hand (complete (both parts I and II); New York: A. L. Burt, n.d.), by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Hidden Hand (part I; continued in "Capitola's Peril"; Chicago: M. A. Donohue, n.d.), by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Wayward Pardner: or, My Trials with Josiah, America, The Widow Bump, and Etcetery (Hartford, CT: American Pub. Co., 1895), by Marietta Holley, illust. by True Williams (page images at Harvard)
• Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by David Graham Phillips
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Indiana
  • both volumes (but no illustrations): Gutenberg text
• Wits and the Woman (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1919), by Violet Irwin, illust. by Christine Tucke Curtiss
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1931), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (page images at HathiTrust)
• Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. and P.I.: Samantha at the Centennial (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1893), by Marietta Holley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession to Loyalty (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1867), by John William De Forest (frame-dependent page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Virginia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Ellen Glasgow
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• What Women Need to Know About Retirement (ca. 2007), ed. by J. Lewis and C. Hounsell, contrib. by Teresa Heinz Kerry (PDF at wiserwomen.org)

• Exploring a Common Past: Interpreting Women's History in the National Park Service (second edition, 2003, updated 2005) (PDF at nps.gov)
• Women in the Twentieth Century: A Study of Their Political, Social and Economic Activities (New York and London: McGraw-Hill, 1933), by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (HTML and page images at LOC)
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States, by Library of Congress (searchable HTML at LOC)
• Women of America (Woman in All Ages and in All Countries v10; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907), by John Rouse Larus (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Lady's Friend, ed. by Henry Peterson (partial serial archives)
• The Woman's Era (partial serial archives)

• Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender and Domesticity During World War II (c2008), by Ann Elizabeth Pfau (HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• What Women Need to Know About Retirement (ca. 2007), ed. by J. Lewis and C. Hounsell, contrib. by Teresa Heinz Kerry (PDF at wiserwomen.org)

• Women of Influence (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), ed. by George Clack and Mildred Sola Neely (PDF at usembassy.gov)
• The Centennial Situation of Woman, by Alexander H. Bullock (page images at MOA)
• Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (Boston: I. Knapp, 1838), by Sarah Moore Grimké (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Summer in the Kitchen (Indianapolis: Douglass and Carlon, 1878), by Hetty A. Morrison
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Woman in America: Her Work and Her Reward (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; Philadelphia, G. S. Appleton, 1850), by Maria J. McIntosh (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Preparing Women for Citizenship (New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Helen Ring Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Anti-Lynching Crusaders: "A Million Women United to Suppress Lynching" (ca. 1922), by Anti-Lynching Crusaders, contrib. by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust)
• Work for the Colored Women of the South (Tuskegee: Normal School Press, 1894), ed. by Margaret James Murray Washington
  • page images at HathiTrust; some pages may be duplicated or missing
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some pages may be duplicated or missing

• Women of Influence (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), ed. by George Clack and Mildred Sola Neely (PDF at usembassy.gov)
• Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement (1972), by Chicago Women's Liberation Union (page images at Duke)
• What is the Revolutionary Potential of Women's Liberation? (ca.1970), by Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood (page images at Duke)
• The Sex Radicals: Free Love in High Victorian America (Lawrence, KS: The Regents Press of Kansas, c1977), by Hal D. Sears (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• In Our Own Voices: Conducting Life History Interviews with American Jewish Women (Brookline, MA: Jewish Women's Archive, c2005), ed. by Jayne K. Guberman (PDF with commentary at jwa.org)

• Chicanas Speak Out: Women: New Voice of La Raza (1971), by Mirta Vidal (page images at Duke)

• Ladies' Christian Commissions: Auxiliary to the U.S. Christian Commission (Philadelphia: C. Sherman, Son, and Co., 1864), by United States Christian Commission, contrib. by Edward Norris Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience, by L. P. Brockett and Mary C. Vaughan (page images at MOA)
• Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice, by Frank Moore (page images at MOA)
• Reminiscences of the Women of Missouri During the Sixties (Jefferson City, MO: Hugh Stephens Printing Co, ca. 1913), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Missouri Division (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army (Richmond, VA: Dustin, Gilman and Co., 1876), by Loreta Janeta Velazquez, ed. by C. J. Worthington
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army (Hartford: T. Belknap, 1876), by Loreta Janeta Velazquez, ed. by C. J. Worthington
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Our Army Nurses: Interesting Sketches, Addresses, and Photographs of Nearly One Hundred of the Noble Women Who Served in Hospitals and on Battlefields During Our Civil War (Boston: B. Wilkins and Co., 1895), ed. by Mary Gardner Holland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• War-Time Sketches, Historical and Otherwise, by Adelaide Stuart Dimitry (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, During the War of the Rebellion (Hartford: A.D. Worthington and Co., 1896), by Mary A. Livermore (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• A Southern Woman's War Time Reminiscences (Memphis, TN: Press of the Pilcher Printing Co., 1905), by Elizabeth Lyle Saxon
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865 (Pinopolis, SC: St. John's Hunting Club, 1921), by Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, contrib. by Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, by Virginia Clay-Clopton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Diary of a Refugee, ed. by Frances Hewitt Fearn, illust. by Rosalie Urquhart (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, by Rose O'Neal Greenhow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories, by Caroline E. Merrick (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry: His Experience and What He Saw During the War 1861-1865, by John H. Worsham (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Rebel's Recollections, by George Cary Eggleston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Recollections Grave and Gay, by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Reminiscences of the Civil War, by Cora Mitchel (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Southern Girl in '61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator's Daughter, by Louise Wigfall Wright (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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