Free womanhood books

Books about womanhood are about women's lives as women live them. Girlhood, work, friendship, desire, motherhood or its absence, and growing older are told in novels and memoirs. They are stories of ordinary and extraordinary women, written with the detail that comes from experience. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.

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Little Women
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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

1884 · 1896 edition

256 pages

Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

1895 · 1899 edition

626 pages

Gone with the Wind
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Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

1973 · 1991 edition

1024 pages

Emma
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Emma

Jane Austen

Published 1892

646 pages

Othello
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Othello

William Shakespeare, David Serero

Published 1843

184 pages

Middlemarch
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Middlemarch

George Eliot, Viola Huggins

Published 1873

308 pages

Vanity Fair
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Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray, Guiffrey

1848 · 1879 edition

700 pages

Shirley
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Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

1854 · 1888 edition

560 pages

Little Men
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Little Men

Louisa May Alcott

Published 1871

400 pages

Pamela
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Pamela

Samuel Richardson

Published 1889

556 pages

Il Corsaro Nero
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Il Corsaro Nero

Emilio Salgari

1972 · 2014 edition

337 pages

Romola
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Romola

George Eliot

1872 · 1898 edition

390 pages

The Heroïdes
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The Heroïdes

Ovid

1886 · 1890 edition

566 pages

Hernani
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Hernani

Victor Hugo

1887 · 1891 edition

188 pages

The two brothers
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The two brothers

Honoré de Balzac

1896 · 1898 edition

420 pages

The Green Ray
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The Green Ray

Jules Verne

Published 1883

360 pages