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Addams, Jane
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Scarlet Stockings 1869
Little Women 1869 Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888: Anonymous review
"Little Women" on the Stage March 1912 Aldrich, Bess Streeter
Angelou, Maya
Anonymous
Facts. By a Woman 1881
"St. Elmo" and its Author September 1902
"Ida M. Tarbell" 1903 Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Armitt, Elizabeth
Atherton, Gertrude
Rezánov 1906 Austen, Jane
Northanger Abbey 1798-1817
Mansfield Park 1814
Emma 1815
Sanditon 1817
Persuasion 1818 Austin review: Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936
Mary Austin 1911 Austin, Mary
The Mother of Felipe November 1892
The Wooing of the Señorita March 1897
The Conversion of Ah Lew Sing October 1897
Inyo 1899
The Deer-star (A Paiute Legend). February, 1901
Hunting Weather. October 1903
Blue-eyed Grass. June 1904
The Walking Woman 1907
Agua Dulce 28 August 1909
The Woman at Eighteen-Mile 25 Sept. 1909
Indian Songs 1911
Medicine Song: To Be Sung in Time of Evil Fortune September 1911
The Song of the Friend January 1912
Medicine Songs 1914 Austin, Mary: Review: Anonymous
Mary Austin 1912 Bailey, Temple
The Eternal Feminine October 1908 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia
Barclay, Florence Louisa Charlesworth, 1862-1921
The Rosary 1909 Barker, Nettie Garmer
Barr, Amelia E.
Barrett, Maria
Barrett, Young; Barrett, Maria; and Johnson, Isabella
Beecher, Catharine E.
Behn, Aphra
The City Heiress 1682 Bower, B. M.
Jean of the Lazy A 1915 Brackett, Anna C.
The Strange Tale of a Type-Writer October 1890
In Hades 1899 Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Brooke, Frances, 1724?-1789
Brooke, M.L.
Brown, Alice
Bachelor's Fancy 1904 Bryant, Sara Cone
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Esmerelda May, 1877
Smethurstses August, 1877
Lodusky September, 1877
A Little Princess 1905
The Shuttle 1907
The Secret Garden 1911
T. Tembarom 1913
The Lost Prince 1914
The White People 1917
What the Pug Knew 1919 Calamity Jane (pseud. Marthy Cannary Burk)
Campion, Saunders A.
Liberian Letters: Saunders A. Campion for George Walker, et al, to Dr. James H. Minor 1857 March 5 1857 Canfield, Dorothy
The Playmate 1905
The Bliss of Solitude March 1906
The Ugly Duckling 1906
"The Scrubwoman" / by Dorothy Canfield; Author of "Moonshine," "The Story of Ralph Miller," etc. January 1907 Carr, Mildred
Letter from Mildred Carr in Liberia to James Miner January 29, 1858 Cary, Elisabeth Luther
Case, Adelaide E.
Cather, Willa Sibert
On the Gull's Road 1908
Street in Packingtown May 1915
Ardessa May, 1918 Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880
Letter to Frances Locke, n.d. 1842-1878
The Rebel Faulkner 1861?
Letter to Mr. Purvis, 1868 August 14 1868 August 14 Chopin, Kate
A Respectable Woman / by Kate Chopin February 15, 1894
The Father of Desiree`s Baby / by Kate Chopin January, 1893
The Kiss / by Kate Chopin January, 1895
Regret. 1895
Ozeme's Holiday 1896
A Pair of Silk Stockings / by Kate Chopin September, 1897
The Awakening 1899 Christie, Agatha
Cocke, Louisiana Barraud
Diary and Notes 1819-1820 Coleman, Margaret
Coleman, Margaret; Coleman, Martin; Coleman, Alan
Conkling, Hilda
Crane review: Wyatt, Edith
Stephen Crane. 1915 Cristall, Ann Batten
Poetical Sketches 1795 Cutting, Mary Stewart
Davis, Kate Buffington
A Daughter of Lilith and a Daughter of Eve January 1891 Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910
Blind Tom 1862
One Week an Editor 1873
"Walhalla May 1880
Anne 1889
An Ignoble Martyr March 1890 DeCora, Angel
Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945.
Many Waters 1905
The Way to Peace 1910 Der Ling, Princess
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
"Morning" 1891 Dovidoff, Madame
Count Leon Tolstoi 1892 Dunbar, Alice
Edouard 1911
Lesie, the Choir Boy 1901 Far, Sui Sin
A Chinese Ishmael 1899
An Autumn Fan August 1910
The Bird of Love 1910 Ferber, Edna
The Homely Heroine 1910
Fanny Herself 1917 Ford, Mary K.
Woman's Progress a Comparison of Centuries August 1909 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930
Cat. 1900
The Revolt of Sophia Lane December 1903
The Last Gift 1903
Humble Pie 1904
A Guest in Sodom 1912
The Yates Pride 1912
Criss-cross 1914
Emancipation December 1915 Fuller, Alice W.
A Wife Manufactured to Order July 1895 Furman, Lucy S.
A Special Providence November, 1896 Gamble, Eliza Burt
Garrison, Theodosia
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Sexton's Hero 1847-8
Uncle Peter 1853
A Visit To Eton 1857
Fear for the Future 1859
Shams 1863 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
Nation 1892
Eternal Me 1899
The Yellow Wallpaper 1899
Herland 1915 Glasgow, Ellen
The Freeman 1897
"A Point in Morals" May 1899
The Shadowy Third December 1916 Glaspell, Susan, 1882-1948
A Jury of Her Peers 1917 H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
The Islands 1920
Three Poems 1920 Haldeman-Julius, Emanuel and Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius
Dust 1921 Hale, Sarah Josepha
Woodbine Cottage 1849 Hamilton, Elizabeth
Hapgood, Isabel F.
Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata" April 17, 1890 Harden, Judy
Liberian Letters: Judy Harden to Howell Lewis, Dr. James H. Minor, and Frank Nelson 1858 February 27 1858 Harden, Julia
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1824-1911
Poems 1895 Harper, Ida Husted
Harraden, Beatrice
Mrs. Lynn Linton 1898 Harrison, C. C.
Hart, Albert Bushnell with Blanche E. Hazard
Colonial Children 1902 Hart, Albert Bushnell with Mabel Hill
Hazeltine, Alice I.
Library Work with Children August 1917 Hinook-Mahiwi-Kilinaka (Angel de Cora)
"The Sick Child" 1899 Holmes, Lizzie M.
Hope, Laura Lee
Inchfawn, Fay, 1880-
Jackson, Helen Hunt
Ramona 1921 Jewett, Sarah Orne
"Discontent" 1876
"Only A Doll" 1878
The White Rose Road Sept. 1889
Decoration Day June, 1892
The Passing of Sister Barsett May 1893
The Queen's Twin 1898
A Dunnet Shepherdess 1899
The Foreigner 1900
The Gloucester Mother October 1908
William's Wedding 1910 Jewett, Sarah Orne: review: anonymous
Miss Jewett January 1894 Johnston, Mary, 1870-1936.
1492, 1922 Kane, Eliza
Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893
Key, Ellen
Leach, Anna
Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone; Coolidge, Susan; Miller, Joaquin; Powelson, Mrs. Amy Therese; etc.
Twilight stories 1905 Lowell, Amy
The Blue Scarf 1914
The Paper Windmill December 1915
In a Time of Dearth 1916
Quincunx June 1919 Maus, Marion P.
Mayo, Margaret
Polly of the Circus 1908
Baby Mine 1911 McGlasson, Eva Wilder
A Child of the Covenant May 1893 McLaughlin, Marie L.
Meade, L. T.
Michelson, Miriam
Michie, Mary
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Second April 1921 Montgomery, L. M.
The Watchman / L.M. Montgomery ; Drawn by Henry McCarter December, 1910 Moore, Marianne
Two Poems 1920 More, Hannah (attributed)
Mulock, Miss (Craik, Dinah Maria)
Muzzey, Annie L.
Nation, Carry A.
Norris, Kathleen
Mother : A Story 1911 Ouida, 1839-1908
The Little Thief March, 1900 Peattie review: Anonymous
Peattie review: Cooper, Fredric Taber
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935
On a Blank Leaf in 'The Marble Faun.' October 1891
A Mountain Woman 1896
Love's Delay February 1897
Star I' The Darkest Night November 1900
The Esmeralda Herders January 1901
Mozart: A Fantasy 1902
Wilderness Station 1903
The Door 1906
Shehens` Houn` Dogs 1907
Trinity 1909
Painted Windows 1918
Lanier in the Valley 1922 Porter, Eleanor H.
Pollyanna 1912
Just David 1916
Mary Marie 1920 Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980
The Martyr 1923 Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.
The Tale of Mr. Tod 1912 Prescott, Harriet E.
In a Cellar 1859
Dark Ways 1863 Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917 Rives, Hallie Erminie
In the Wake of War 1905 Rowson, Susanna Haswell, 1762-1824
Sadlier, Anna T.
Arabella 1907 Sangster, Margaret E.
An Experience. 1899 Scott, Mary
Scott, Tibby and Scott, Mary
Liberian Letters: Tibey Scott and Mary Scott to James H. Minor and Elizabeth Minor 1860 January 19 1860 Seeger, Mary K.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
The Last Man 1826 Shepherd, Lilian McG.
Sheridan, Frances
Sigourney, Lydia H.
The Winter Hyacinth 1844 Sill, Alice H.
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes
Smith, Mary Stuart
Letter from Mary Stuart Smith to Rosalie Thornton, May 3, 1896 [a machine-readable transcription] 1896 Smythe, A. M.
Letter from Mrs. A. M. Smythe to her cousin, Feb 17, 1837 concerning the sale of a family of slaves. [1837], Feb.17 Southall, Adeline
Spofford, Harriet Prescott
The Nemesis of Motherhood April 1899 Spyri, Johanna
Heidi before 1891 Steedman, Amy
Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Up and Down 1898 Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
Stopes, Marie C.
Kagekiyo 1927 Stowe, Charles Edward, and Stowe, Lyman Beecher
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Teasdale, Sara
Rivers to the Sea 1915 Thanet, Octave
The Rowdy 1892 Twine, Lucy
Vaerting, Mathilde, 1884-
Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954
A Rhapsody on Japan Jan. 1898
Ojio-San March 1898
Karo May 1898
An Oriental Holiday Dec. 1898
Shizu`s New Year`s Present Jan. 1899
His Interpreter 1899
The Pot of Paint 1899
The Story of Ido 1899
A Father Jan. 1900
The Wickedness of Matsu May 1900
The Betrothal of Otoyo Dec. 1900
Amoy, A Chinese Girl 1900
Count Oguri`s Quest 1902
Miss Perfume 1902
The Wife of Shimadzu 1902
Yoshida Yone, Lover 1902
Miss Spring Morning 1915
Butchering Brains 1928 Wedgwood, Ethel
Wetmore, Helen Cody
Wharton review: Anonymous
Decoration of Houses. By Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr. December 16, 1897
Ethan Frome 1911 Wharton review: Boynton, H. W.
Wharton review: Cooper, Frederic Taber
Wharton review: Franklin, C. L.
Women and Business 1906 Wharton review: Hooker, Brian
Wharton review: Marsh, Edward Clark
Wharton review: Moss, Mary
Wharton review: Sedgwick, Henry Dwight.
Wharton review: Trueblood, Charles K.
Edith Wharton January 1920 Wharton review: Winter, Calvin
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Only a Child. 1879
April Showers 1900
The Rembrandt 1900
The Touchstone 1900
"Margaret of Cortona" November, 1901
The Recovery 1901
The Mission of Jane 1902
The Quicksand 1902
The Reckoning 1902
The Dilettante. 1903
The Vice of Reading 1903
The Other Two February 13, 1904
The Pot-Boiler December 1904
The Last Asset. 1904
The Letter 1904
The Best Man. 1905
The Introducers Jan 1906
In Trust 1906
Madame de Treymes. 1906
The Bolted Door 1908
Expiation 1908
"A Grave" / by Edith Wharton June, 1909
Ogrin the Hermit 1909
The Comrade 1910
The Letters 1910
Other Times, Other Manners July-August 1911
The Long Run 1912
The Reef; a novel 1912
"The Great Blue Tent" August 25, 1915
Coming Home. 1915
Bunner Sisters Oct- Nov 1916
Summer; a novel 1917
The Refugees 18 January 1919
Writing a War Story September 1919
The Age of Innocence 1920 Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Wilkins, Mary E.
A Gatherer of Simples [a machine-readable transcription] October, 1884
A Maiden Lady 1885
An Old Arithmetician 1885
A Conflict Ended 1886
"A Poetess" 1890
Love and the Witches June 1891
The Whist-Players October 1892
After the Rain. 1892
The Lost Dog. 1900
Squirrel. 1900
"Eglantina" 1902 Williams, Jane E
Wilson, Harriet E.
Withrow, Laura
"Her Letter to Him" 1916 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
Woolf, Virginia
The Voyage Out 1915
Night and Day 1920 Zitkala-Sa
The Trial Path October 1901
Old Indian Legends 1901
A Warrior's Daughter 1902
Why I Am a Pagan 1902


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