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• 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)

• Mrs. Humphry Ward (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #13; 1987), by William B. Thesing and Stephen Pulsford (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Sarah Grand (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #1; 1979), by Joan Huddleston (illustrated HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Sheila Delany (HTML at UC Press)

• Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1996), ed. by Shirley Nelson Garner and Madelon Sprengnether (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1996), ed. by Shirley Nelson Garner and Madelon Sprengnether (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World (London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1668), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Essays on Various Subjects, by the Author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1772), by Catherine Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa" (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1982), by Terry Castle
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Mrs. Radcliffe: Her Relation Towards Romanticism; With an Appendix on the Novels Falsely Ascribed to Her (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1926), by Alida Alberdina Sibbellina Wieten (page images at delpher.nl)
• Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920), by Clara Frances McIntyre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Blue-stockings: Her Correspondence From 1720 To 1761 (2 volumes; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Mrs. Montagu, ed. by Emily J. Climenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1890), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• 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)

• George Eliot's Serial Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Carol A. Martin (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Jane Austen Among Women (originally published 1992; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Deborah Kaplan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Christina Rossetti in Context (1988), by Antony H. Harrison (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Judith W. Page (HTML at UC Press)
• Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1962), by Howard S. Babb
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• A Blighted Life: A True Story (London: London Publishing Office, 1880), by Rosina Bulwer Lytton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Emily Brontë (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1883), by A. Mary F. Robinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Emily Brontë (second edition; London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1883), by A. Mary F. Robinson (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Ethics of George Eliot's Works (fourth edition; Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884), by John Crombie Brown (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1889), by Mrs. Julian Marshall, contrib. by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Mrs. Shelley (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1890), by Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (Gutenberg text)
• Harriet Martineau (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887), by Florence Fenwick Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Book of Margery Kempe, by Margery Kempe, ed. by Lynn Staley (HTML at metseditions.org)

• Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lise Sanders (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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 at Gutenberg Australia)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.