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The American Female Poets, With Biographical and Critical Notices.   by Caroline May.  1853  MoA 

American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A Comprehensive...   by  Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, 1897  Goo  

Biographies & Profiles of Women in Mathematics    AsscWomenMath  2002   AWM 

Biographies of Good Wives    by Lydia Maria Francis Child  1850   Goo 

Biographies of Women Mathematicians   by Larry Riddle,  1996-   ASC   

Colonial Days & Dames.   by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton.  1894  Goo

The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies.   ed. by Mary Kavanaugh Oldham Eagle  Chicago: Monarch Book Company, 1894    Har   UPe

Daughters of the Puritans: a group of brief biographies.     including:  Catherine Maria Sedgwick, 1789-1867,  Mary Lovell Ware, 1798-1840,  Lydia Maria Child, 1802-1880,  Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1802-1887,  Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 1810-1850,  Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896, Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888.   by Seth Curtis Beach. 1905      Goo   Har

Distinguished Women Past & Present (Danuta Bois) [biographical Dictionary]  200?  DW  

The employments of women [microform] : a cyclopaedia of woman's work.  by Virginia Penny. Boston : Walker, Wise, 1863     MoA 

Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century,   by Virginia Tatnall Peacock, Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1901   Arc 

The female prose writers of America: with portraits, biographical notices, & specimens    by John Seely Hart, 1810-77.  1866.  MoA

Heroines of the Modern Stage    by Forrest Izard - Actresses – 1915  Goo

The History of the Woman's Club Movement in America   by Jane Cunningham Croly, General Federation of Women's Clubs  1898    Goo

Italian women in industry : a study of conditions in New York City,    by Louise Christine Odencrantz, 1884-1969.    MoA 

Lectures to Young Ladies, Comprising Outlines and Applications of the Different Branches of Female Education: For the Use of Female Schools, and Private Libraries    by Mrs. Lincoln Phelps  Boston: Carter, Hendee and Co., 1833  Arc

Legislation for Women in Industry 1931     by Miriam Theresa Oregon    Har

Letters of a Woman Homesteader [illus. N C Weyth; "housekeeper" in Burnt Fork, Wyoming]   by Elinore Pruitt Stewart,  Bost. 1914  Har

Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: addressed to Mary S. Parker.   by Sarah Moore Grimke,  1792-1873.  Boston : I. Knapp, 1838  Pin 

Life and Light for Woman.    by Woman's Board of Missions. 1922  Goo  

Modern Daughters: Conversations with Various American Girls and One Man.   by Alexander Black. 1899   Goo 

Noble deeds of American women: with biographical sketches.   Intro by Mrs. L. H. Sigourney   by Jesse Clement   1869 rev.    MoA   

Notable Women Ancestors - Susanne "Sam" Behling's database has a complete alphabetical listing and is also browsable by category.  Rweb  

"Our Women in the War.": The lives they lived; the deaths they died. 1885  Goo  

The Part Taken by Women in American History     by John A. Logan, Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan  1912  Goo

The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early Days of the Country’s and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods    by Harry Clinton Green, Mary Wolcott Green.  1912   Goo    OpL  vol 1   vol 2    vol 3 

Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women: Autobiographical sketches   by Elizabeth Blackwell,   1895  Har 

The Practice of medicine and surgery: Applied to the Diseases and Accidents Incident to Women.   by William Heath Byford, 1881  Goo

Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives,   by Helen Campbell Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889  Har

Retrieving African-American Women's History: A Methodological Guide to Manuscript Sources in the Special Collections Library at Duke University,   by Jennifer Morgan,  ed  Virginia Daley   Duk

The rights and condition of women : a sermon, preached in Syracuse, Nov., 1845   by Samuel Joseph May, 1797-1871.  1853?  LC

Sketches of Representative Women of New England    ed. by Julia Ward Howe and Mary H. Graves,    contrib.   by Mary Elvira Elliott, Mary A. Stimpson,  Martha Seavey Hoyt.  Boston: New England Historical Pub. Co., 1904   Arc

Southland writers. Biographical and critical sketches of the living female writers of the South. With extracts from their writings.   By Ida Raymond., MoA 

Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of matriarchate / by Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1826-1898.  Chicago : C.H. Kerr, 1893  STx 

Woman in the nineteenth century   by S. Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850. London : G. Slater, 1850  VCU

Women on the American Frontier,    by  William W. Fowler  Goo  Goo

Women's contributions in the field of invention: A study of the records of the US Patent Office [#28]    U.S. Women's Bureau (Dept of Labor)   GPO  1923  Har 

Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United...   by John William Leonard.  1914   Goo 

Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience.    by Linus Pierpont Brockett, Mary C. Vaughan, 1867  Goo