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• L'Assommoir, by Émile Zola (Gutenberg text)
• The Power and the Glory, by Grace MacGowan Cooke, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (Gutenberg text)
• Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Factory Girl (originally published 1814; with extensive added notes), by Sarah Savage, ed. by Duncan Faherty and Ed White (PDF with commentary at common-place.org)

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

• The Autobiography of a Working Woman (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Adelheid Popp, trans. by E. C. Harvey, contrib. by August Bebel and James Ramsay MacDonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Die Jugendgeschichte Einer Arbeiterin (in German; Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1909), by Adelheid Popp, contrib. by August Bebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Autobiography of a Working Woman (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Adelheid Popp, trans. by E. C. Harvey, contrib. by August Bebel and James Ramsay MacDonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Die Jugendgeschichte Einer Arbeiterin (in German; Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1909), by Adelheid Popp, contrib. by August Bebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sisterhood and Solidarity: Workers' Education for Women, 1914-1984 (originally published 1984; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), ed. by Joyce L. Kornbluh and Mary E. Frederickson, contrib. by Dorothy Sue Cobble (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

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

• Mrs. Warren's Profession, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• 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 Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 (c2008), by Willeen G. Keough (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Autobiography of Mother Jones (Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1925), by Mother Jones, ed. by Mary Field Parton, contrib. by Clarence Darrow
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Sisterhood and Solidarity: Workers' Education for Women, 1914-1984 (originally published 1984; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), ed. by Joyce L. Kornbluh and Mary E. Frederickson, contrib. by Dorothy Sue Cobble (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• The Autobiography of Mother Jones (Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1925), by Mother Jones, ed. by Mary Field Parton, contrib. by Clarence Darrow
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Women (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Flaming Youth (published under "Warner Fabian" pseudonym; New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Awakening of Helena Richie, by Margaret Deland (Gutenberg text)
• The Convert, by Elizabeth Robins (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (facsimile of 1621 edition; with Pamphilia to Amphilanthus appended), by Mary Wroth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dernières Lettres de Femmes (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1897), by Marcel Prévost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Flash of Summer: The Story of a Simple Woman's Life (London: Methuen and Co., 1895), by Mrs. Clifford (HTML at Emory)
• The Foolish Virgin, by Thomas Dixon (Gutenberg text)
• The Foolish Virgin: A Romance of Today (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1915), by Thomas Dixon, illust. by Walter Tittle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Gossip's Story, and a Legendary Tale (second edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for T. N. Longman, 1797), by Jane West (page images at Google)
• Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Julia: A Novel, Interspersed With Some Poetical Pieces (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790), by Helen Maria Williams (HTML at Michigan)
• Letters of Women (New York: Meyer Bros. and Co., 1897), by Marcel Prévost, trans. by Arthur Hornblow
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Lettres de Femmes (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1892), by Marcel Prévost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft (Gutenberg text)
• Mary: A Fiction, by Mary Wollstonecraft (Gutenberg text)
• Mizora: A Prophecy (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1890), by Mary E. Bradley Lane (Gutenberg text and page images)
• New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (London: Tower Pub. Co.; Newcastle-on-Tyne: Lambert and Co., ca. 1889), by Mrs. George Corbett (Gutenberg text)
• Nouvelles Lettres de Femmes (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, n.d.), by Marcel Prévost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Silent Struggles (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1865), by Ann S. Stephens
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Simply Women: Selections from the Works of Marcel Prévost (New York: Macaulat, 1910), by Marcel Prévost, trans. by R. I. Brandon-Vauvillez (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "The Ladies!" A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, by L. Adams Beck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady (c1927), by H. G. Wells (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Lilian (London et al.: Cassell and Co., c1922), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The White Riband: or, A Young Female's Folly (New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1921), by F. Tennyson Jesse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole (1899), by Anna Adolph
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Beulah, by Augusta J. Evans (Gutenberg text)
• The Cottagers of Glenburnie; With a Memoir of the Life of the Author (London and Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers. 1859), by Elizabeth Hamilton (page images at Google)
• The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary (New York: John Lane Company, 1911), by Karin Michaëlis, contrib. by Marcel Prévost
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Diplomatic Woman (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1900), by Huan Mee
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Female Quixote: or, The Adventures of Arabella, by Charlotte Lennox (multiple formats with commentary at girlebooks.com)
• The Female Quixote: or, The Adventures of Arabella (second edition, 2 volumes; London: A. Millar, 1752), by Charlotte Lennox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Female Quixote, or, The Adventures of Arabella (text from an 1810 edition and illustrations from a 1799 edition), by Charlotte Lennox, ed. by Mrs. Barbauld, illust. by Richard Corbould and Thomas Kirk (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

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