Despite the fact that I'm currently reading a whopping five books at present, I recently felt the need to find some good new fiction, since all of my current reads are non-fiction. First, I browsed the catalogs at both Persephone Books and Virago Press for inspiration (this Virago Collection Tracker spreadsheet from LibraryThing members was also enormously helpful). Then, because I primarily wanted eBooks for my Kindle and Nook, I searched the Web to find out which books were also available in the public domain.
Unfortunately, I also ended up ordering a stack of books from both Amazon (At Mrs. Lippincote's, Consequences, Gone to Earth, The Edwardians, Mariana, and Nella Last's three WWII diaries) and Amazon UK (Miss Buncle's Book, Few Eggs and No Oranges, The Carlyles at Home, Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary)! My husband will not be pleased.
Any of the Google Books/ePub files below can be converted to Kindle-compatible .Mobi files using the quick, easy and free eBook management software from Calibre.
Persephone Books
- William, an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton (Persephone - Google Books)
- Fidelity by Susan Glaspell (Persephone - Google Books)
- Consequences by E.M. Delafield (Persephone - Google Books)
- Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy (Persephone - Google Books)
- The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Persephone - Google Books)
- The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens (Persephone - Internet Archive)
- The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Persephone - Google Books)
- Round about a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves (Persephone - Internet Archive)
- A New System of Domestic Cookery by Mrs. Rundell (Persephone - Google Books)
- Marriage (1818) by Susan Ferrier (About - Internet Archive)
- Deerbrook (1839) by Harriet Martineau (About - Internet Archive)
- The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner (About - Google Books)
- The Lifted Veil by George Eliot (About - Google Books)
- The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories by Marjorie Barnard (About - Internet Archive)
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Virago - Internet Archive - Google Books)
- South Riding: A Novel (1936) by Winifred Holtby* (About)
- The Little Ottleys (Omibus): Love's Shadow, Tenterhooks, Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson (About)
- A Diary Without Dates (1918) by Enid Bagnold (Virago Nonfiction; About - Many Books)
- The Happy Foreigner (1920) by Enid Bagnold (About - Many Books)
- The Squire* (1938) by Enid Bagnold (About - Internet Archive)
- The Three Miss Kings by Ada Cambridge (About - Google Books)
- Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith (About - Google Books)
- Susan Spray* by Sheila Kaye-Smith (About - Internet Archive)
- The Reef by Edith Wharton (About - Internet Archive)
- The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge (About - Google Books)
- Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim (Virago - Google Books)
- The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim (Virago - Kindle Edition)
- The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (Virago - Kindle Edition)
- The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim (About - Internet Archive)
- My Antonia by Willa Cather (About - Internet Archive)
- The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (About - Internet Archive)
- The Robber Bridegroom (1942) by Eudora Welty (About - Internet Archive)
- The Third Miss Symons (Virago - Kindle Edition)
- Mary Olivier: A Life by May Sinclair (Virago - Google Books)
- The Life and Death of Harriet Frean by May Sinclair (About - Google Books)
- The Three Sisters by May Sinclair (About - Internet Archive)
- Red Pottage (1900) by Mary Cholmondeley (About)
- Gone to Earth by Mary Webb (Virago - Google Books)
- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West (Virago)
- The Judge by Rebecca West (About)
- Open the Door! by Catherine Carswell (About - Internet Archive)
- An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw (About - Internet Archive)
- Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H.G. Wells (About - Internet Archive)
- Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith (About - Google Books)
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin (About - Internet Archive)
- The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson (About - Google Books)
- Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson (About - Google Books)
- The Odd Women: Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3 by George Gissing (About)
- Virginia by Ellen Glasgow (About - Google Books)
- The Semi-Attached Couple, and The Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden (About)
- Pilgrimage 1, Pointed Roofs by Dorothy M. Richardson (About - Google Books)
- Pilgrimage 2,Backwater by Dorothy M. Richardson (About - Google Books)
- Pilgrimage 3, Honeycomb by Dorothy M. Richardson (About - Internet Archive)
- Pilgrimage 4, The Tunnel by Dorothy M. Richardson (About - Google Books)
- The Beth Book (1897) by Sarah Grand (About - Google Books)
- Belinda (1801) by Maria Edgeworth (About)
- Evelina (1778) by Fanny Burney (About)
- Camilla (1796) by Fanny Burney (About)
- Emily Fox-Seton by Frances Hodgson Burnett (This includes The Making of a Marchioness, above, and its sequel)
- The Minor Pleasures of Life (1934) by Rose Macaulay
- False Goddesses (1923) by Rachel Ferguson
- The Glory of the Conquered (The Story of a Great Love) (1909) by Susan Glaspell
- The Visioning (1911) by Susan Glaspell
- High Rising (1951) by Angela Thirkell (About)
- Fletchers End (1962) by D.E. Stevenson*
- The Happy Highways (1920) by Storm Jameson
- In the Second Year: Radical Fictions (1936) by Storm Jameson (About)
- Christine (1917) by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Vera (1921) by Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Nightingales Are Singing (1953) by Monica Dickens
- The Rosary (1909) by Florence Barclay
- The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the 12th Century (1917) by Florence Barclay
- Miss Marjoribanks (1866) by Mrs. Oliphant (About)
- The War Workers (1918) by E.M. Delafield
- Mary Olivier: A Life (1919) by May Sinclair (About)
- Tension (1920) by E.M. Delafield
- The Heel of Achilles (1920) by E.M. Delafield
- Humbug (1921) by E.M. Delafield
- Messalina of the Suburbs (1928) by E.M. Delafield
- Road Through the Woods (1961) by Pamela Frankau
- Collision (1913) by Mary Borden
- The Romantic Woman (1916) by Mary Borden
- The Tortoise (1921) by Mary Borden
- Jane - Our Stranger (1923) by Mary Borden
- The Amazing Interlude (1918) by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922) by Katherine Mansfield
- Gigolo (1922): Short stories by Edna Ferber
- Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphrey Ward: "The best-selling novel of 1903."
- The Milky Way (1914) by F. Tennyson Jesse
- The Happy Bride (1920) by F. Tennyson Jesse
- The Long Day (The Story of a New York Working Girl, As Told by Herself) (1905) by Dorothy M. Richardson (About)
- Pilgrimage 5, Interim (1920) by Dorothy M. Richardson
- Pilgrimage 6, Deadlock (1921) by Dorothy M. Richardson
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By the way, Burnett's The Shuttle is also available at Girlebooks.com. There are several on that website that I think would be of interest to Persephone/Virago aficionados.