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• Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
• History -- 16th century

• 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)

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• 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)
• 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)

• Life of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, Mother of King Henry The Seventh (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839), by Caroline A. Halsted (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jews and Their Lies (based on 1948 translation of portions of "Von dem Juden und Iren Lugen" with commentary; Boring, OR: CPA Book Publisher, n.d.), by Martin Luther (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Von den Jüden und Iren Lügen (in German; Wittenberg: H. Lufft, 1543), by Martin Luther (page images in Germany)
• The Jews and Their Lies (Los Angeles: Christian Nationalist Crusade, 1948), by Martin Luther (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Like Wheat to the Miller: Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in Sixteenth-Century Aragon (c2002), by Mary Hoyt Halavais (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Mexican Architecture of the Sixteenth Century (2 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1948), by George Kubler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Cynthia J. Brown (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Archivo Mexicano: Documentos para la Historia de México (2 volumes, in Spanish; Mexico City: V. García Torres, 1852-1853) (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries, 1500-1700, ed. by Theo Hermans and R. Salverda (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)

• The Book-Trade, 1557-1625 (reprinted from the Cambridge History of English Literature v4; 1909), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Irving A. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Thomas Berthelet, Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII, King of England; With Special Reference to His Bookbindings (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1901), by Cyril Davenport, illust. by William Griggs (Gutenberg text)

• Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2023), ed. by Silvia V. Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, and Davíð Ólafsson (PDF at OAPEN)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Irving A. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and America in the Sixteenth Century, by Ida Altman (PDF files at Libro)

• Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Michael Shapiro
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Matteo Ricci and the Missionary Role in the Evolution of Chinese Lexicon (London and New York: Routledge, c2024), by Zhao Ming (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda In Bavaria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Philip M. Soergel (HTML at UC Press)

• Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda In Bavaria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Philip M. Soergel (HTML at UC Press)

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