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• Women and literature
• Literature -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification (second edition, 1798), by Maria Edgeworth (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)
• Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Françoise Lionnet (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The body of poetry : essays on women, form, and the poetic self (University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Annie Finch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My favorite lectures of long ago, for friends who remember. ([The Case, Lockwood & Brainard co.,Hartford, Conn., printers], 1898), by Kate Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tares: a book of verses. (Thomas B. Mosher, 1906), by Rosamund Marriott Watson and Thomas B. Mosher (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lucile (Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870), by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The authoress of the Odyssey : where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands (London, New York and Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co., 39 Paternoster Row, 1897., 1897), by Samuel Butler, England) Metcalfe & Co. (Cambridge, and Green Longmans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Browning's poems (T.Y. Crowell & co., 1893), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Her majesty the king; a romance of the harem. (R.G. Badger, 1899), by James Jeffrey Roche (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eliza one, Eliza two; a family correspondence, 1849-1959 (Carlton Press, 1961), by Myrtle Mann, Eliza Barker Mann, and Eliza Purdue (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indiana, 1816-1916 (E. Stein?, 1916), by Evaleen Stein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wenus i Amor w feljetonach literackich (Nakl. Księgarni F. Hoesicka, 1926), by Ferdynand Hoesick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Alabama women in literature. (Selma printing co.], 1895), by Mary La Fayette Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Literary Women of England, Including a Biographical Epitome of All the Most Eminent to the Year 1700: And Sketches of the Poetesses to the Year 1850; With Extracts from Their Works, and Critical Remarks (London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1861), by Jane Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Susan Sniader Lanser (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), ed. by Bonnie Kime Scott (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• Songs from the hearts of women; one hundred famous hymns and their writers (A.C. McClurg, 1903), by Nicholas Smith, Will Bradley, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, and A.C. McClurg & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Susan Sniader Lanser (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Madamoiselle Z. Fleuriot : du rôle des femmes dans la littérature populaire (Librairie Jacques Lecoffre, 1871), by Henry Jouin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jean Mills (PDF at Ohio State)
• Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman (Columbus: Pub. for Miami University by the Ohio State University Press, c1988), by Jane Marcus (PDF at Ohio State)
• English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863), by Julia Kavanagh
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google; cover page may give different title
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; cover page may give different title
• Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Alison Booth (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• A Room of One's Own (1929), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• A poetics of women's autobiography : marginality and the fictions of self-representation (Indiana University Press, 1987), by Sidonie Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ladies of literature (Hastings house, 1947), by Laura L. Hinkley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Richard Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult, by Deborah J. Lyons (HTML at Princeton)
• The Authoress of the Odyssey (second edition, 1922), by Samuel Butler (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)
• Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916), by J. W. Mackail (page images at HathiTrust)
• Siren songs : gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey (University of Michigan Press, 1995), by Lillian Eileen Doherty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The women of Homer (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1898), by Walter Copland Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The authoress of the Odyssey : where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands (London, New York and Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co., 39 Paternoster Row, 1897., 1897), by Samuel Butler, England) Metcalfe & Co. (Cambridge, and Green Longmans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry: A fragment printed for the use of scholars, by E. F. M. Benecke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle, by F. A. Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Authoress of the Odyssey: Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands, by Samuel Butler, contrib. by Henry Festing Jones (Gutenberg ebook)

• Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence, and Representation in Industrializing Korea (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Ruth Barraclough (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• The New Jersey scrap book of women writers. (Advertiser Printing House, 1893), by Margaret Tufts Yardley, Margaret Tufts Yardley, New Jersey. Board of women managers of the exhibits of the state of New Jersey. World's Columbian exposition, Ill.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, and New Jersey. Board of Women Managers of the Exhibits of the State of New Jersey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Voices of peace a literary magazine. (Sigma Phi Kappa and Pi Theta Mu Literary Societies of Peace Institute, 1920), by N.C.) Peace Institute (Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Ronnie Ancona (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)

• A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women letter writers and diarists of South Africa : 1710-1862 : a lecture (Monarch Press, 1918), by E.L. McPherson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Living Female Writers of the South (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1872), by Mary T. Tardy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Southland Writers: Biographical and Critical Sketches of the Living Female Writers of the South, With Extracts From Their Writings (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1870), by Mary T. Tardy (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition; Philadelphia: G. S. Ferguson Co., 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Voltairine de Cleyre and the revolution of the mind : with selections from her writing (University of Michigan Press, 2004), by Eugenia C. DeLamotte and Voltairine De Cleyre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What can a woman do (Eagle Pub. Co., 1893), by M. L. Rayne, Rose Hartwick Thorpe, and Eagle Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. (E. H. Butler & co., 1852), by John Seely Hart (page images at HathiTrust)

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