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• Elsie Venner, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• Mr. Perkins' Daughter (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881), by Clara Lanza (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mr. Perkins' Daughter (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881), by Clara Lanza (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peggy at Spinster Farm (based on the 1908 Grosset and Dunlap book edition, with additional material from the earlier magazine serial), by Helen M. Winslow, ed. by Louise Hope, illust. by Mary G. Huntsman (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• 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 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1910), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• Woman's Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), by Gail Hamilton
  • HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

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

• 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 (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1912), by Jennie L. Wilson (page images at Harvard)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 (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 Mrs. 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 fdlp.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)

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