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• Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind; With Selections From Her Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Eugenia C. DeLamotte and Voltairine De Cleyre (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)

• Making the Difference: North Carolina Women Writers and Their Works (1996), by Virginia Daley (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Women Poets and the American Sublime (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), by Joanne Feit Diehl (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by James McIntosh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Jennifer S. Tuttle and Carol Farley Kessler (PDF at Ohio State)
• Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Laura Laffrado (PDF at Ohio State)
• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
• Life and Letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick (New York: Harper and Bros., 1872), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ed. by Mary E. Dewey (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, by George Lewis Prentiss, contrib. by E. Prentiss (Gutenberg text)

• Sylvia Plath: New Views on the Poetry (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), ed. by Gary Lane (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Celebration With Anaïs Nin (electronic edition; originally published 1973), ed. by Valerie Harms (illustrated HTML at anaisnin.com)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Jennifer S. Tuttle and Carol Farley Kessler (PDF at Ohio State)
• I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Jane Hedley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (PDF at Ohio State)
• Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Paula M. L. Moya (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
• Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex) Soviet and American Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Susan Hardy Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, M. M. Koreneva, and E. A. Stetsenko (page images at HathiTrust)

• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (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; London: J. Johnson, 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)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

• Spoiling the Stories: The Rise of Israeli Women's Fiction (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c2016), by Tamar Merin (PDF files with commentary at JSTOR)

• 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)

• 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)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

• River Basin Surveys Papers (partial serial archives)
• Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States (looseleaf series from the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1950s), ed. by James B. Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

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