Women authors, American -- Biography
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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 Living Female Writers of the South (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1872), by Mary T. Tardy
- 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)
- The Third and Only Way: Reflections On Staying Alive (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of The Life and Work and Ideals of "The Bird Woman" (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1915), by Eugene F. Saxton, contrib. by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Google)
- Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of The Life and Work and Ideals of "The Bird Woman" (based on the 1926 edition, with additional material from earlier versions), ed. by Eugene F. Saxton, contrib. by Gene Stratton-Porter (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Recollections Grave and Gay, by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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Filed under: Women authors, American- 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)
- Recollections Grave and Gay, by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Journey is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Journey is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Third and Only Way: Reflections On Staying Alive (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)
- The World and the Bo Tree (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of The Life and Work and Ideals of "The Bird Woman" (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1915), by Eugene F. Saxton, contrib. by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Google)
- Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of The Life and Work and Ideals of "The Bird Woman" (based on the 1926 edition, with additional material from earlier versions), ed. by Eugene F. Saxton, contrib. by Gene Stratton-Porter (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Homing With the Birds: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1919), by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Homing With the Birds: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Indiana)
- At the Foot of the Rainbow (with a biography of the author in the introduction), by Gene Stratton-Porter (Gutenberg text)
- Kansas Women in Literature, by Nettie Garmer Barker
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- Making the Difference: North Carolina Women Writers and Their Works (1996), by Virginia Daley (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The Living Female Writers of the South (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1872), by Mary T. Tardy
- 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)
- Latest Contemporary Portraits (New York: Macaulay, c1927), by Frank Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Glimpses of Authors, by Caroline Ticknor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Contemporary Portraits (Third Series) (New York: The author, c1920), by Frank Harris
- Fanny Fern: A Memorial Volume, Containing Her Select Writings and a Memoir (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1873), by Fanny Fern and James Parton, illust. by Arthur Lumley (page images at HathiTrust)
- World's Renowned Authors, and Their Grand Masterpieces of Poetry and Prose (Kansas City, MO: Topeka Book Co., 1902), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century (3 volumes; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1891-1908), by S. Austin Allibone
- A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors (2 volumes; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1902), by John Foster Kirk, contrib. by S. Austin Allibone
- Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (author died in 1960; c1942), by Zora Neale Hurston (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Pagan Spain (c1957), by Richard Wright (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (first edition, 1945), by Richard Wright, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- A Long Way From Home (New York: Lee Furman Inc., c1937), by Claude McKay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Getting To Be Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Steinbrink (HTML at UC Press)
- The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (originally published 1999; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Turner (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 (Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1987), by Dwight Thomas and David Kelly Jackson (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)
- The Year 2000: A Critical Biography of Edward Bellamy (New York: Bookman Associates, c1958), by Sylvia E. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Edward Bellamy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944), by Arthur E. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mark Twain: Son of Missouri (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), by Minnie M. Brashear (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cora Crane: A Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1960), by Lillian B. Gilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Back-Trailers from the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Hamlin Garland, illust. by Constance Garland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston, by Richard Malcolm Johnston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Chapters From My Autobiography (as published in issues of the North American Review), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
- A Daughter of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Hamlin Garland
- George William Curtis (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894), by Edward Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
- Henry James (London: Nisbet and Co., c1916), by Rebecca West (multiple formats at archive.org)
- James Russell Lowell: A Biography (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), by Horace Elisha Scudder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, contrib. by Florence Howe Hall
- 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 Lafcadio Hearn (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906), by Elizabeth Bisland, contrib. by Lafcadio Hearn
- Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: W. Scott, 1896), by Henry S. Salt
- Life on the Mississippi (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
- Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Louisa May Alcott, ed. by Ednah Dow Cheney (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883), by Julia Ward Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life, by Marion Harland (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Mark Twain, by Archibald Henderson (Gutenberg text)
- Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (2 volumes; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1857), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and W. H. Channing
- My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1910), by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A New England Girlhood, Outlined From Memory, by Lucy Larcom (Gutenberg text)
- The One I Knew the Best of All: A Memory of the Mind of a Child (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Reginald B. Birch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Ordeal of Mark Twain (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Van Wyck Brooks (Gutenberg text)
- Our Friend John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus (Gutenberg text)
- R. H. D.: Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis
- Recollections of Seventy Years by Mrs. John Farrar (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865), by Mrs. John Farrar (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- The Story of a Literary Career (Holyoke, MA: E. Towne, 1905), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, contrib. by Ella Giles Ruddy (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Washington Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
- Hawthorne's Son: The Life and Literary Career of Julian Hawthorne (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1970), by Maurice Bassan (PDF at Ohio State)
- Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
- Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)
- Through the Shadows With O. Henry (New York: H. K. Fly Co., c1921), by Al Jennings
- Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), by Richard Harding Davis, ed. by Charles Belmont Davis (HTML at Virginia)
- Auto-Biography of Lemuel Sawyer, by Lemuel Sawyer (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from Her Letters and Journals by Her Son (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1890), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ed. by Charles Edward Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney, by Samuel M. Janney (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Walden: or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), by Henry David Thoreau (multiple formats at archive.org)
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