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• The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Antonia Jacqueline Losano (PDF at Ohio State)

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• Women of the 1913 Armory Show: Their Contributions to the Development of American Modern Art (dissertation; Louisville, KY: University of Louisville, 2014), by Jennifer Pfeifer Shircliff (PDF with commentary at lousville.edu)
• Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (Paris and New York: Goupil and Co., Boussod, Valadon and Co., Successors, 1893), ed. by Maud Howe Elliott (page images at Harvard)
• Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Co., 1894), ed. by Maud Howe Elliott (illustrated HTML and page images at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Women in the Fine Arts, From the Seventh Century B. C. to the Twentieth Century A. D. (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1905), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marie Bashkirtseff: The Journal of a Young Artist, 1860-1884 (New York: Cassell and Company, c1889), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mary J. Serrano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff (4th thousand; 2 volumes in French; Paris: G. Charpentier et cie, 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (2 volumes; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mathilde Blind
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (single-volume edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mathilde Blind
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (2 parts in 1 volume: Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, 1913), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by A. D. Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Singular Women: Writing the Artist (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003), ed. by Kristen Frederickson and Sarah E. Webb (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1921), by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Elisabet Ney, Sculptor (New York: Devin-Adair, c1916), by Bride Neill Taylor
  • page images at Portal to Texas History
  • page images at Google; may not be accessible outside the US
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Book of Small (1942), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• English Female Artists (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1876), by Ellen C. Clayton
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Alexandra Wettlaufer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Amazons of the Avant-Garde (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c2000), ed. by John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt, illust. by Alexandra Exter, Nataliia Sergeevna Goncharova, Liubov' Sergeevna Popova, Ol'ga Vladimirovna Rozanova, Varvara Fedorovna Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udal'tsova (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Three Girls in a Flat (Chicago: Knight, Leonard and Co., 1892), by Enid Yandell, Jean Loughborough, and Laura Hayes, illust. by Helen Maitland Armstrong, A. B. Wenzell, C. Graham, True Williams, J. H. Vanderpoel, Alden Finney Brooks, Hugh Tallant, and Walter Tallant Owen
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Florida
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Alexandra Wettlaufer (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Further Memoirs of Marie Bashkirtseff, Together with a Correspondence Between Marie Bashkirtseff and Guy de Maupassant (London: Grant Richards, 1901), by Marie Bashkirtseff, contrib. by Guy de Maupassant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elisabet Ney, Sculptor (New York: Devin-Adair, c1916), by Bride Neill Taylor
  • page images at Portal to Texas History
  • page images at Google; may not be accessible outside the US
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Marie Bashkirtseff: The Journal of a Young Artist, 1860-1884 (New York: Cassell and Company, c1889), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mary J. Serrano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff (4th thousand; 2 volumes in French; Paris: G. Charpentier et cie, 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (2 volumes; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mathilde Blind
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (single-volume edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mathilde Blind
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Further Memoirs of Marie Bashkirtseff, Together with a Correspondence Between Marie Bashkirtseff and Guy de Maupassant (London: Grant Richards, 1901), by Marie Bashkirtseff, contrib. by Guy de Maupassant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mary J. Safford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (2 parts in 1 volume: Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, 1913), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by A. D. Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (PDF and Epub with commentary at opensuny.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)

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