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• The memoirs of Mrs. Mary Ann Radcliffe : in familiar letters to her female friend. (Printed for the author and sold by Manners & Miller ... [et al.], 1810), by Mary Ann Radcliffe, Stewart Cheyne, Ferrier & Waterston (Firm), Hurst Longman, Oliphant & Balfour (Firm), Archibald Constable & Co, and Manners and Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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• The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen (London: Printed by the assignment of I. More, 1632) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Great advocate and oratour for women, or, The Arraignment, tryall and conviction of all such wicked husbands (or monsters) who held it lawfull to beate their wives or to demeane themselves severely and tyrannically towards them where their crafty pleas are fully heard and their objections plainly answered and confuted ... ([S.l. : s.n.], 1682) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Women in English Life from Mediaeval to Modern Times (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1896), by Georgiana Hill
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Women of England (Woman in All Ages and in All Countries v9; Philadelphia: Rittenhouse Press, 1908), by Bartlett Burleigh James (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• Women in English life from mediæval to modern times. (R. Bentley & son, 1896), by Georgiana Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of England (G. Barrie, 1908), by Bartlett Burleigh James (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem, by Martha Moulsworth, ed. by Robert C. Evans and Barbara Wiedemann (HTML at Ceebration of Women Writers)

• The private correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis, 1613-1644. From the originals in the possession of the family. (Printed by S. & J. Bentley, Wilson & Fley, 1842), by Jane Cornwallis Bacon and Richard Griffin Braybrooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts and Tongues; With An Answer to the Objections Against This Way of Education (London: Printed by J. D. to be sold by T. Parkhurst, 1673), by Bathsua Makin (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• England in Europe: English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c.1000–c.1150 (University of Toronto Press, 2017), by Elizabeth Muir Tyler (JSTOR ebook)
• Medieval Women and Their Objects (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021), by Nancy Bradbury and Jennifer Adams (JSTOR ebook)

• My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem, by Martha Moulsworth, ed. by Robert C. Evans and Barbara Wiedemann (HTML at Ceebration of Women Writers)

• The Mirror of the Graces: or, the English Lady's Costume (London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co., 1811), by A Lady of Distinction (page images at Wisconsin)

• Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Linda Gordon Kuzmack (PDF at Ohio State)

• Mary Wollstonecraft and the beginnings of female emancipation in France and England, by Jacob Bouten (Gutenberg ebook)

• Woman's Cause: The Jewish Woman's Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990), by Linda Gordon Kuzmack (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sifre ha-zikhronot le-Sir Mosheh Monṭifyori ṿe-raʻyato Yehudit (Tushiyah, 1898), by Moses Montefiore, Louis Loewe, and Judith Cohen Montefiore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2013), by Don Herzog (multiple formats at Michigan)

• Famous blue-stockings (John Lane company, 1910), by Ethel Rolt-Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lady hymn writers (T. Nelson, 1892), by Emma Raymond Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Miss Elizabeth Carter : illustrating the union of learning and piety (T.H. Carter, 1844), by Louisa J. Hall and First Congregational Society in Hampton Falls. Sabbath School Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem, by Martha Moulsworth, ed. by Robert C. Evans and Barbara Wiedemann (HTML at Ceebration of Women Writers)

• The History of Amelia Gale; an example of self-denying zeal in the cause of missions. (American Baptist Publication Society, 1852), by George Charles and American Baptist Publication Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Martyredome of Joane Waste, a blinde woman in the towne of Darbie (Printed and sold by G. Wilkins, 1700) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recollections of Past Days: The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2006), by Patience Loader Archer, ed. by Sandra Ailey Petree
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hester Ann Rogers, With Corrections and Additions, Comprising an Introduction by Thos. O. Summers (Nashville, TN.: E. Stevenson and F. A. Owen, 1855), by Hester Ann Rogers, ed. by Thomas O. Summers, contrib. by Thomas Coke (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Memorials of Miss Mary Fishwick, of Springfield, near Garstang : containing selections from her correspondence : with an introduction (Published by G. Lane and P.P. Sandford, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 1843), by Peter M'Owan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of Miss Mary Helen Bingham : who died in the seventeenth year of her age (Printed for the author, and sold by John Mason, 1834), by John Bustard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quaker women, 1650-1690 (Duckworth & co., 1915), by Mabel Richmond Brailsford (page images at HathiTrust)

• My idealed John Bullesses (Musson, 1912), by Yoshio Markino (page images at HathiTrust)

• English churchwomen of the seventeenth century. (New York : Standford and Swords, 1847., 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Female Jockey Club (London, printed: New-York, Reprinted: For Greenleaf, Fellows, and Wayland, 1794), by Charles Pigott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The learned lady in England, 1650-1760. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Myra Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women in English economic history (J. M. Dent & sons ltd., 1923), by F. W. Tickner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forsaken home (M.W. Dodd, 1844), by Charlotte Elizabeth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Campaigns of curiosity; journalistic adventures of an American girl in London. (F.T. Neely, 1894), by Elizabeth L. Banks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lise Sanders (PDF at Ohio State)

• Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (with commentary), by Mary Darby Robinson (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, For the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, In Two Parts, by a Lover of Her Sex (London: Printed for R. Wilkin, 1697), by Mary Astell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A serious proposal to the Ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest (In Two Parts), by Mary Astell (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Education and Employment of Women, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)

• Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (with commentary), by Mary Darby Robinson (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• A History of the National Woman's Rights Movement for Twenty Years; With the Proceedings of the Decade Meeting Held at Apollo Hall, October 20, 1870, From 1850 to 1870; With an Appendix Containing the History of the Movement During the Winter Of 1871, in the National Capitol (New York: Journeyman Printers Co-operative Association, 1871), ed. by Paulina W. Davis, contrib. by N.Y.) National Woman's Suffrage Convention (1871: Apollo Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Woman Suffrage (6 volumes, 1887-1922), ed. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper
  • 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
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
• L'émancipation sexuelle de la femme (La Brochure mensuelle, 1926), by Madeleine Pelletier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of women's rights : from the days of Augustus to the present time, with special reference to England and the United States (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), by Eugene A. Hecker, Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Florence Luscomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Weiber. (in der Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1792), by Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le droit de la femme dans l'antiquité, son devoir au moyen âge, d'après des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale (A. Claudin, 1880), by Louis de Baecker and A. Claudin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of the Project Gutenberg Works on Women's Suffrage: Four volumes edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, ed. by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper, and David Widger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Weiber (in German), by Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions., by Eugene A. Hecker (Gutenberg ebook)

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