Or "novels of development" - idea from the list of eight in this interesting article at the Toast:
http://the-toast.net/2016/02/18/eight-classic-female-bildungsromane/
So the first eight are the ones via that article.
I didn't tag this with biography or autobiography even though some of them are - but the rest are literary so....
1.
by Constance Fenimore Woolson, Charles S. Reinhart
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3.
by E.D.E.N. Southworth, Joanne Dobson
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4.
by Zitkala-Sa, Cathy N. Davidson, Ada Norris
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7.
by Harriet E. Wilson, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Reginald Pitts
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