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• Marjorie Dean at Hamilton Arms (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1925), by Pauline Lester (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Cakes and Ale (c1930), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (based on the 1897 Nimmo edition, with annotated names; 2011), by Andrew Lang, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)

• The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (based on the 1897 Nimmo edition, with annotated names; 2011), by Andrew Lang, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
• Two Letters to the Rev. Dr. Thomas M'Crie, and the Rev. Mr. Andrew Thomson, on the Parody of Scripture Lately Published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (published under "Calvinus" pseudonym; Edinburgh: Printed by Abernethery and Walker for J. Fairbairn, 1817), by James Grahame (HTML with commentary at vt.edu)
• Two More Letters, Being the Fourth and Last to the Rev. Dr. Thomas M'Crie, and the Rev. Mr. Andrew Thomson, on the Parody of Scripture Lately Published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (published under "Calvinus" pseudonym; Edinburgh: Printed by Abernethery and Walker for J. Fairbairn, 1817), by James Grahame (HTML with commentary at vt.edu)

• 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 Elizabeth Montagu), Illustrated In Her Unpublished Letters; Collected and Arranged, with a Biographical Sketch, and a Chapter on Blue Stockings (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1873), by Dr.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 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)
• Hagar (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Mary Johnston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• The Murder of Delicia (London: Skeffington and Son, 1896), by Marie Corelli (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Murder of Delicia (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1896), by Marie Corelli (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• 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)

• 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)

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