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• The Arc and the Sediment (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Christine Diane Allen-Yazzie
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (21-chapter version), by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (24-chapter version, 1910), by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Time of Roses (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Daddy-Long-Legs (with illustrations by the author and scenes from the play; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Jean Webster (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Daddy-Long-Legs (New York: The Century Co., 1912), by Jean Webster (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Setä Pitkäsääri (Daddy-Long-Legs in Finnish; Porvoo: W. Söderström, 1918), by Jean Webster, trans. by Tyyni Tuulio (Gutenberg text)
• Vadertje Langbeen (Daddy-Long-Legs in Dutch, with illustrations by the author; Amsterdam: Scheltema en Holkema, n.d.), by Jean Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Yellow Journalist (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1905), by Miriam Michelson (page images at HathiTrust)

• All Roads Lead to Calvary, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)

• The Golden Notebook (originally published 1962; with extensive online discussion from 2008 and 2009), by Doris Lessing (HTML with commentary at thegoldennotebook.org)
• The Golden Violet: The Story of a Lady Novelist (originally published in 1936 under Joseph Shearing pseudonym; this edition 1943), by Marjorie Bowen, contrib. by Sinclair Lewis (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Legend (London: Heinemann, 1919), by Clemence Dane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Touchstone, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Figure in the Carpet (London: M. Secker, c1916), by Henry James
  • Gutenberg text
  • 1919 reprint: page images at HathiTrust

• Flush: A Biography (1933), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Rose of Dutcher's Coolly (Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895), by Hamlin Garland (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Corinne: or, Italy (London: Richard Bentley, 1833), by Madame de Staël, trans. by Isabel Hill, contrib. by L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2012), by Laura Morgan Green (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)

• Famous Authors (Women) (fourth impression; Johnston not credited in this edition; Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by E. F. Harkins, contrib. by Charles H. L. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1902), by E. F. Harkins and Charles H. L. Johnston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Lady of the Last Century (Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu), Illustrated In Her Unpublished Letters; Collected and Arranged, with a Biographical Sketch, and a Chapter on Blue Stockings (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1873), by Dr. Doran, contrib. by Mrs. Montagu (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Women of the French Salons, by Amelia Gere Mason (Gutenberg text)

• List of Books Sent by Home and Foreign Committees to the Library of the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, by World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Board of Lady Managers, ed. by Edith E. Clarke (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Room of One's Own (1929), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920), by Myra Reynolds
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Room of One's Own (1929), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)

• Florilegio de Escritoras Cubanas (3 volumes in Spanish; 1910-1919), ed. by Antonio González Curquejo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne
  • Volume I: multiple foprmats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust

• Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide (ca. 1898), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd and S. Prowett, 1825), ed. by Alexander Dyce (multiple formats at Google)
• Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd, 1827), ed. by Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., 1897)
  • page images at Drexel
  • frame-dependent page images at Harvard

• Mind Amongst the Spindles: A Miscellany, Wholly Composed by the Factory Girls, Selected From The Lowell Offering (with a letter by Harriet Martineau; Boston: Jordan, Swift and Wiley, 1845), ed. by Charles Knight, contrib. by Harriet Martineau
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Mind Amongst the Spindles: A Selection from the Lowell Offering; A Miscellany, Wholly Composed by the Factory Girls of an American City (London: Charles Knight and Co., 1844), ed. by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The American Female Poets, With Biographical and Critical Notices (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848), ed. by Caroline May
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The American Female Poets, With Biographical and Critical Notices (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1853), ed. by Caroline May (HTML at Michigan)

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

• Florilegio de Escritoras Cubanas (3 volumes in Spanish; 1910-1919), ed. by Antonio González Curquejo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Poems by the Most Eminent Ladies of Great Britain and Ireland: Re-Published From the Collection of G. Colman and B. Thornton, Esqrs., With Considerable Alterations, Additions, and Improvements (2 volumes; London: W. Stafford, n.d.), ed. by George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, contrib. by Mary Barber, Aphra Behn, Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Lee Chudleigh, Catharine Trotter, Constantia Grierson, Mary Jones, Anne Killigrew, Mary Leapor, Mary Masters, Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Monck, Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Katherine Philips, Laetitia Pilkington, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Anne Kingsmill Finch Winchilsea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd and S. Prowett, 1825), ed. by Alexander Dyce (multiple formats at Google)
• Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd, 1827), ed. by Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)

• First Light: An Anthology of Paraguayan Women Writers, ed. by Susan Smith Nash (HTML at Light and Dust)

• Mujeres Puertorriqueñas, Que Se Han Distinguido en el Cultivo de las Ciencias, las Letras y las Artes Desde el siglo XVII Hasta Nuestros Días (second edition, in Spanish; Puerto Rico: Tip. de Real Hermanos, 1910), by María Luisa de Angelis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mujeres Puertorriqueñas, Que Se Han Distinguido en el Cultivo de las Ciencias, las Letras y las Artes Desde el siglo XVII Hasta Nuestros Días (second edition, in Spanish; Puerto Rico: Tip. de Real Hermanos, 1910), by María Luisa de Angelis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Florence L. Barclay: A Study in Personality (London and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), by One of Her Daughters (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.