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• Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century

• 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.

• 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)

• Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2004), by Cristina Ferreira Pinto (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women's Poetry (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c1999), by Diana M. A. Relke (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), ed. by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Molly Hite (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)

• Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), by Natalie Clifford Barney, ed. by John Spalding Gatton (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• 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)

• 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)

• Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Tara Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Les Idées Féministes de Christine de Pisan (thesis in French; 1911), by Rose Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• 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)

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