BOOKS FOR GIRLS -- FICTION

A sample of books written between 1800 and 1930, available at University of New Mexico or LIBROS consortium libraries.  Not included: picture books, school books, folk tales, Bible stories, poetry, very brief works.  Compiled by Virginia Seiser.
 
 

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.

TITLE  The inheritance / Louisa May Alcott ; with an afterword by the editors Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy.  1st ed.
PUBLISHER New York : Dutton Books, c1997.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PS1017 I54 1997 

 
TITLE  Jack and Jill : a village story / by Louisa M. Alcott.
PUBLISHER Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1920,1922.
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PS1017 J3 1922

 
TITLE  Little women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy / Louisa May Alcott; with illustrations by M.E. Gray.
PUBLISHER New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1994.
CALL NUMBER ZIM PZ7 A335 Li 1994 copies 1-2
OTHER EDITIONS  ZIM PS1017 L5 1962; ZIM PS1017 L5 1995

 
TITLE Little women and Good wives / Louisa M. Alcott ; introduction by Ann Thwaite.
PUBLISHER London : J.M. Dent ; Rutland, Vt. : C.E. Tuttle, 1992.
NOTE The four March sisters as they grow into young ladies and marry
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PS1017 L5 1992

 
TITLE An old-fashioned girl / by Louisa M. Alcott.
PUBLISHER Boston : Little, Brown, 1928, c1912.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PZ 7 A335 Ol23

 

Asquith, Cynthia, Lady, 1887-1960.

TITLE Sails of gold, edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith.
PUBLISHER New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1927.
NOTE Collection of short stories.
CALL NUMBER ZIM PZ5 A66 Sa

 

Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919.

TITLE The wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum ; with illustrations by W. W. Denslow.
PUBLISHER New York : Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, 1992.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PZ7 B327 Wi 1992
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM  PS3503 A723 W59 1999  copies 1-2;  ZIM  PZ7 B327 Wi 2000

 

Baylor, Frances Courtenay, 1848-1920.

TITLE Juan and Juanita / by Frances Courtenay Baylor ; with illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren.
PUBLISHER Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1926.
CALL NUMBER ZIM CSWR  PZ7 B268 J8 1926    LIB USE ONLY

 

 Bronte, Anne, 1820-1849.

TITLE Agnes Grey / by Anne Bronte ; with a memoir of her sisters by Charlotte Bronte.
PUBLISHER Edinburgh : John Grant, 1911.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PR4162 A33

 
TITLE The tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte (Acton Bell), with an  introd. by Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
PUBLISHER N.Y. : Harper & Bros., 1900.
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PR4162 T4 1900 v.1-2
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM  PR4162 T4 1973;   ZIM  PR4162 T4 1997

 

Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855.

TITLE Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte.
PUBLISHER  Philadelphia, Pa. : Courage Books, c1991.
NOTE  "Reprinted from the second edition of Jane Eyre, revised by Charlotte Bronte, published by Smith, Elder, and Co., London, in 1847"--T.p. verso.
CALL NUMBER ZIM    PR4167 J3 1991b
OTHER EDITIONS See LIBROS.

 
TITLE  Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte.   1st New York Public Library collector's ed.
PUBLISHER New York : Doubleday, c1997.
NOTE Illustrated with handwritten letters, diaries, manuscripts, and original art from the collections of the New York Public Library.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PR4167 I3 1997

 

Bronte, Emily, 1818-1848.

TITLE Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte ; edited by Hilda Marsden and Ian Jack.
PUBLISHER Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976.
NOTE  Reprint of the 1847 ed. published by T. C. Newley, London.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PR4172 W7 1976
OTHER EDITIONS  See LIBROS.

 

Cannon, Cornelia James, 1876-

TITLE The Pueblo girl : a story of Coronado on the Rio Grande, / by Cornelia James Cannon, with illustrations by Olive Rush.
PUBLISHER Boston and New York, : Houghton Mifflin company, 1929.
CALL NUMBERS ZIM  PZ8.1 C164 Pug  copies 1-2;    ZIM CSWR  PZ8.1 C164 Pug    LIB USE ONLY

 

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

TITLE Alice's adventures in Wonderland [& Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there] Illustrated by John Tenniel.
PUBLISHER New York, Heritage Reprints c1941
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PR4611 A75 1941
OTHER EDITIONS See LIBROS.

 
TITLE Sylvie and Bruno, by Lewis Carroll [pseud.]  With forty-six illustrations, by Harry Furniss.
PUBLISHER London, Macmillan, 1899.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PR4611 S9 1899

 
TITLE Sylvie and Bruno concluded / by Lewis Carroll [i.e. C. L. Dodgson] ; with forty-six illustrations by Harry Furniss.
PUBLISHER New York : Macmillan, 1894.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PR4611 S92 1894

 
TITLE Through the looking glass, and what Alice found there, by Lewis Carroll [pseud.] With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel.
PUBLISHER New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd., 1930.
NOTE "Printed March, 1898. Reprinted ... October, 1899", etc.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   823 D66t
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM   PR4611 T5 1946

 
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
 
TITLE Little Dorrit. With illus. by H. K. Browne.
PUBLISHER London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PR4562 A1 1857
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM   823 D555l v1-2;  ZIM  PR4562 D5 1979;  ZIM   PR4562 A1 1966

 
TITLE Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, with forty illustrations by Phiz; a reprint of the edition corrected by the author in 1869 with an introduction biographical and bibliographical, by Charles Dickens, the younger.
PUBLISHER New York and London, Macmillan, 1895.
CALL NUMBER Law Lower Floor   PR4562.A2D5

 
TITLE The old curosity shop; with introds., critical comments, and notes by Charles Dickens the younger, Andrew Lang, Edgar Allen Poe and others.
PUBLISHER New York, P. F. Collier, 1911.
CALL NUMBER ZIM  823 D555Ol
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM  PR4566 A1 1966;  ZIM  PR4566 A1 1970 v.1-2

 
Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
 
TITLE The mill on the Floss / by George Eliot. 2 vols.
PUBLISHER Leipzig : B. Tauchnitz, 1860.
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PR24664 A1 1860 v.1-2
OTHER EDITIONS See LIBROS.

 
TITLE Middlemarch : a study of provincial life / by George Eliot ; with an introd. by R. M. Hewitt.
PUBLISHER  London : Oxford University Press, 1947, 1973 printing.
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PR4662 A1 1973  copies 1-2
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM  823 El4me v. 2;  ZIM  PR4662 A1 1956;  ZIM  PR4662 A1 1994b

 
Keene, Carolyn.
 
TITLE The hidden staircase / by Carolyn Keene.
PUBLISHER  New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1930.
NOTE  A Nancy Drew mystery.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PZ7 K23 Nan no.2

 
TITLE The secret of the old clock / by Carolyn Keene; illustrated by Russell H. Tandy ; with an introduction by Sara Paretsky.  Facsimile ed.
PUBLISHER Bedford, MA : Applewood Books; Chester, CT: Distributed by Globe Pequot Press, c1930, 1991.
NOTE A Nancy Drew mystery.
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PZ7 K23 Sec 1991

 
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.
 
TITLE The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby / by Charles Kingsley ; illustrated by Linley Sambourne.  Children's ed.
PUBLISHER London : Macmillan, 1928.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PZ8 K619 W27 1928

 
Livingstone, Cora Luetta, 1874-19??
 
TITLE Glimpses of pioneer life.
PUBLISHER Chicago : A. Flanagan, 1923, c1904.
CALL NUMBER ZIM PZ7 L762 Gl 1923

 
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942.
 
TITLE Anne of Avonlea / Lucy Maud Montgomery.
PUBLISHER Philadelphia, Pa. : Courage Books, c1994.
NOTE Sequel to Anne of Green Gables.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PZ7 M768 A1 1994
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM  PS1449 C85 R3 1993

 
TITLE Anne of Green Gables / L.M. Montgomery ; with illustrations by Sybil Tawse.
PUBLISHER New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995.
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PZ7 M768 An 1995
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM  PZ7 M768 An 1992;  ZIM  PZ7 M768 An 1993b

 
TITLE Anne of the island / L. M. Montgomery.
PUBLISHER New York : Bantam Books, 1976, c1915.
NOTE Continues the adventures of Anne Shirley.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PR6025 O45 A52x 1976

 
TITLE The road to yesterday.
PUBLISHER Toronto, New York, McGraw-Hill Ryerson [1974].
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PZ7 M768 Ro4

 
Moon, Grace Purdie, d. 1947.
 
TITLE Chi-Wee; the adventures of a little Indian girl, by Grace Moon; illustrated by Carl Moon.
PUBLISHER Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page & co., 1925.
CALL NUMBER ZIM CSWR  PZ8.1 M779 Chi     LIB USE ONLY

 
TITLE Nadita (Little Nothing) / by Grace Moon ; illustrated by Carl Moon.
PUBLISHER Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927.
CALL NUMBERS ZIM  PZ8.1 M779 Na;   ZIM CSWR  PZ8.1 M779 Na   LIB USE ONLY

 
Roy, Lillian Elizabeth, 1868-1932.
 
TITLE Girl Scouts in Arizona and New Mexico / by Lillian Elizabeth Roy.
PUBLISHER New York : George Sully & Co., c1923.
CALL NUMBER ZIM CSWR     PZ7 R813 Gi 1923     LIB USE ONLY
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM CSWR     PZ7 R813 Gi 1923b    LIB USE ONLY

 
 Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878.
 
TITLE Black Beauty: the autobiography of a horse, by Anna Sewell.
PUBLISHER London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton [1921]
NOTE Memoir of Anna Sewell, by Vincent Starrett: p. vii-xiv.
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PZ10.3 S38 Bl

 
Sidney, Margaret, 1844-1924.
 
TITLE Five little Peppers grown up, a sequel to Five little Peppers midway, by Margaret Sidney [pseud.] ... illustrated by Mente.
PUBLISHER Boston, D. Lothrop Company [c1892]
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PZ7 L913 Fig6 

 
Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901.
 
TITLE Cornelli, her childhood, by Johanna Spyri ... translated by Clement W. Coumbe, illustrated by Frances Brundage.
PUBLISHER Akron, O., New York, The Saalfield publishing company [c1926]
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PZ7 S772 Co4 1926

 
TITLE Heidi.  Introduction by May Laberton Becker.
PUBLISHER Cleveland, World Pub. Co. [1946].
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PZ7 S772 H51
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM  PZ7 S772 H67

 
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
 
TITLE Betty's bright idea. Also, Deacon Pitkin's farm, and The first Christmas of New England.
PUBLISHER Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1972].
NOTE Reprint of the 1875 ed.
CALL NUMBER ZIM PS2954 B4 1972

 
TITLE Dred : a tale of the great Dismal Swamp / by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
PUBLISHER London: S. Low, 1856.
CALL NUMBER ZIM CSWR Bell    PS2954 D7 1856c  LIB USE ONLY
OTHER EDITIONS ZIM  PS2954 D7 2000

 
TITLE The minister's wooing. By Harriet Beecher Stowe.
PUBLISHER New York, Derby and Jackson, 1859.
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PS2954 M5 c.2

 
TITLE The pearl of Orr's Island; a story of the coast of Maine.
PUBLISHER Ridgewood, N.J., Gregg Press [1967].
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PS2954 P4 1967

 
TITLE Uncle Tom's cabin / by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
PUBLISHER Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, c1879.
CALL NUMBER ZIM  PS2954.U5 1879
OTHER EDITIONS See LIBROS.

 
Tappen, Eva March, 1854-1930.
 
TITLE The Children’s Hour/ Modern Stories/ selected & arranged By Eva March 
Tappen.  1st ed. Vol. 10
PUBLISHER [Boston]: Houghton Mifflin, 1907.
NOTE Includes stories by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Louise 
de la Ramee, Sarah Orne Jewett, Louisa M. Alcott, Mary Austin and others.
CALL NUMBER ZIM PN6071 C5 C45 1907 v.10

 
Watkins, Lucy.
 
TITLE Henry and Eliza : a pathetic tale, founded on a well-known recent event / written by Lucy 
Watkins ; to which is added, Mary, the maid of the inn : an affecting narrative.
PUBLISHER Philadelphia : Published and sold by Freeman Scott, 1828.
CALL NUMBER ZIM CSWR Bell   PS3302 M3x   LIB USE ONLY

 
Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923.
 
TITLE Marm Lisa / by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
PUBLISHER Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896.
CALL NUMBER ZIM CSWR Bell   PS3302 M3x   LIB USE ONLY

 
TITLE Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm / Kate Douglas Wiggin.
PUBLISHER New York : Buccaneer Books, Inc., 1984.
CALL NUMBER ZIM   PZ7 W638 Re 1984

 

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