The Legend of Good Women
Geoffrey Chaucer
Published 1889
296 pages
Free gender books
Books about gender ask what it means to be a woman or a man, and who decided. Expectations at home, at work and in love are examined in novels, memoirs and essays. Some are angry, some are funny, and all of them make the familiar look newly strange. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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Othello
William Shakespeare
Published 1843
184 pages
The Perpetual Curate
Oliphant - undifferentiated
Published 1870
348 pages
Mansfield Park
Henry Fielding
Published 1892
328 pages
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
Published 1896
440 pages
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott, Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney
Published 1889
436 pages
Tom Brown at Oxford ...
Thomas Hughes
Published 1879
584 pages
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
Published 1849
200 pages
Anne of Geierstein, Or, The Maiden of the Mist
Walter Scott
Published 1899
496 pages
The Tragedy of Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Published 1895
198 pages
Vivian Grey
Benjamin Disraeli
Published 1881
520 pages
The Valley of Kashmir
Walter Roper Lawrence
Published 1895
528 pages
Phantom Fortune
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Published 1883
842 pages
Gee's Bend
John Beardsley
Published 2002
432 pages
Mary Stuart
Friedrich Schiller
Published 1875
54 pages
Vigée Le Brun
Joseph Baillio, Katharine Baetjer, Paul Lang
Published 2016
278 pages
I'll always be your daughter
Carol Lynn Pearson
Published 2010
32 pages
Diana Tempest
Mary Cholmondeley
Published 1893
284 pages
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
Published 1871
1234 pages
Far from the madding crowd
Thomas Hardy
Published 1895
500 pages
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Pamela Kirk Rappaport
Published 1998
180 pages
The Soul of Lilith
Marie Corelli
Published 1892
382 pages
From a Girl's Point of View
Lilian Bell
Published 1897
212 pages
Women in the ancient Near East
Marten Stol
2015 · 2016 edition
696 pages