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• Workhouses and Women's Work: Reprinted from The Church of England Monthly Review; Also, a Paper on the Condition of Workhouses, Read in the Social Economy Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Birmingham, October, 1857 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858), by Louisa Twining
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• A voice in Rhama:: or, The crie of women and children. Ecchoed forth in the compassions of Peter Chamberlen, Doctour in Physick, Fellow of the Colledge of London, and one of his Majesties physicians extraordinary. (London : Printed by William Bentley: for John Marshall, and are to be sold at his shop at the Hand and Pen in Corn-hill, over against the Royall Exchange, anno Domini 1647), by Peter Chamberlen (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Why Abortion? The Myth of Choice for Women Who are Poor, by Anne Nicol Gaylor (HTML with commentary at ffrf.org)
• The Eustace diamonds. (Dodd, Mead, 1915), by Anthony Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch (Century, 1903), by Alice Hegan Rice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Almshouse Women: A Study of Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight Women in the City and County Almshouse of San Francisco (Palo Alto: Stanford University, 1896), by Mary Roberts Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• An explanation of the views of the Society for Employing the Female Poor : with the constitution and by-laws, and extracts from several reports. (Hilliard and Metcalf, 1825), by Society for Employing the Female Poor and John Gallison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)
• Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Willis Bardwell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch (Century Co., 1903), by Alice Hegan Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eustace diamonds. (Dodd, Mead, 1915), by Anthony Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch (Century, 1903), by Alice Hegan Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rat-Pit, by Patrick MacGill (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Time of Man: A Novel (New York: Viking Press, 1926), by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The time of man (New American Library, 1954), by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Healthy mothers, healthy babies : supplement to a compendium of program ideas for serving low-income women. (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Public Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, 1990), by United States. Maternal and Child Health Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Title X regulations (the Gag Rule) : health implications for poor women : hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, on oversight hearings on the implementation of Title X regulation provisions (Gag Rule) of the Public Health Service Act relating to health implications for poor women, May 16, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Title X regulations (the Gag Rule) : health implications for poor women : hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, on oversight hearings on the implementation of Title X regulation provisions (Gag Rule) of the Public Health Service Act relating to health implications for poor women, May 16, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• There's No Place Like Home: The Politics of Women's Housing (ACSJC occasional paper #1; Surry Hills, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1987), by Brian Cosgrove (PDF in Australia)

• Annual report of the Female Christian Home ... (S. Angell, Printer, in the 1860s), by N.Y.) Female Christian Home (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of St. Luke's Home for Indigent Christian Females ... ([The Home], 1852), by N.Y.) St. Luke's Home for Indigent Christian Females (New York (page images at HathiTrust)

• Polly and the Princess, by Emma C. Dowd (Gutenberg ebook)

• Medical liability and the delivery of obstetrical care : hearing before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Energy of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, Washington, DC, October 12, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by Business Opportunities United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Experiences of low-income women with breast cancer : abstract, executive summary and final report (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Center for Research Dissemination and Liaison, 1999), by Anne S. Kasper, University of Illinois at Chicago, and United States. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Addressing the screening gap : the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program : hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, January 29, 2008. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)

• Medical assistance for certain women found to have breast or cervical cancer : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health Care of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, on S. 662, July 27, 1999. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1999), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health Care (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report of the Association for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females ... 1817-1871> (Printed for the Society by J. Seymour, 1816), by Association for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report and the constitution of the New-York Female Assistance Society ... <1838/1839-1840/1841 (Printed for the Society, by A. Paul, in the 1810s), by New York Female Assistance Society and New York Dorcas Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eliza Huntington Memorial Home (Norwich Printing Company, 1874), by Conn.) Eliza Huntington Memorial Home (Norwich (page images at HathiTrust)

• Public assistance programs for poor women in Massachusetts (The Task Force, 1986), by Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators. Task Force on Women and Poverty (page images at HathiTrust)

• Threat to Title X and other women's health services : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, special hearing. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by Health and Human Services United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The role of TANF Program providing assistance to families with very low incomes : hearing before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first [i.e. second] session, March 11, 2010 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support (page images at HathiTrust)

• National women's employment and education project. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Office of the Secretary, Women's Bureau, 1985), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women in transition, 1983 : hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session on examination of problems faced by women in transition from work without pay to economic self-sufficiency, November 8, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life-cycle aspects of poverty among older women (Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, 1997), by Sharmila Choudhury, Dean R. Leimer, and Evaluation United States. Social Security Administration. Office of Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Growing crisis : disadvantaged women and their children. (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1983), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barriers to self-sufficiency for single female heads of families : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, July 9 and 10, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1985), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisoners of poverty : Women wage-workers, their trades and their lives (Roberts Brothers, 1887), by Helen Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dignity : lower income women tell of their lives and struggles : oral histories (University of Michigan Press, 1985), by Fran Leeper Buss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Speaking Out: Women, Poverty, and Public Policy, ed. by Katherine Rhoades and Anne Statham (PDF at Wisconsin)

• Poor Black Women: Including, Birth Control Pills and Black Children, A Statement By the Black Unity Party (Peekskill, NY); A Response, by Black Sisters; Poor Black Women, by Patricia Robinson (1968), contrib. by Patricia Robinson (page images at Duke)

• When do women use AFDC & food stamps? : the dynamics of eligibility vs. participation (National Bureau of Economic Research, 1993), by Rebecca M. Blank, Patricia Ruggles, and National Bureau of Economic Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Welfare reform : a new conversation on women and poverty : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, September 21, 2010 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old age penisoners and aged pauperism. (H. M. Stationery off., by Darling and son, ltd., 1913), by Great Britain. Local Government Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our new masters (Strahan & co., 1873), by Thomas Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The parish and the union. (C. Knight and co., 1837), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of commons. Select committee on new poor law amendment act (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aged poor in England and Wales : condition (Macmillan, 1894), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la misère des classes laborieuses en Angleterre et en France ... avee l'indication des moyens propres à en affranchir les sociétés (J. Renouard et cie., 1841), by Eugène Buret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses into the abyss (P. S. King & son, 1906), by Mary Higgs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The village labourer 1760-1832, a study in the government of England before the reform bill (Longmans, Green, and co., 1913), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The village labourer 1760-1832, a study in the government of England before the reform bill (Longmans, Green, and co., 1924), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The village labourer 1760-1832; a study in the government of England before the Reform bill (Longmans, Green, and co., 1920), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'etat du commerce d'Angleterre. (et se vend à Paris chez Guillyn, 1755), by John Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homes and hospitals: or, Two phases of woman's work, as exhibited in the labors of Amy Dutton and Agnes E. Jones. (American tract society;, 1873), by Amy Dutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commissioners appointed ... to inquire concerning charities in England [and Wales] for the education of the poor ... ([London, 1819), by Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poor rates and pauperism ... 1857-59. ([London], 1857), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of a supply of fish for the manufacturing poor (Printed for the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, 1813), by Thomas Bernard and Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• National thoughts, recommended to the serious attention of the public : with an appendix, shewing the damages arising from a bounty on corn (Printed for R. Dodsley, 1751), by Charles Townshend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old Englishman's letters for the poor of old England : in which is proved that independant of relieving the poor and middling people of England, it is the true interest of England as well as Ireland to allow the free importation of tallow, cattle, and hides from Ireland, and that nothing will distress the common enemy more (Printed by J. Smith, 1758), by William Homer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pauperism and poor laws (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852), by Robert Pashley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schools for the industrious classes, or, The present state of education among the working people of England : Pub. under the superintendence of the Central-society of education. (Printed for Taylor and Walton, 1837), by England) Central Society of Education (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the principles of charitable institutions. (Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the commissioners appointed ... to inquire concerning charities in England [and Wales] for the education of the poor ... ([London, 1819), by Great Britain. Commissioners on Charities and the Education of the Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The village labourer 1760-1832; a study in the government of England before the Reform bill (Green, and co., 1920), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradley Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the State of England: In Relation to Its Trade, Its Poor, and Its Taxes, for Carrying on the Present War Against France, by John Cary (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Law and the Poor, by Edward Abbott Parry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Some proposals for the imployment of the poor, and for the prevention of idleness and the consequence thereof, begging a practice so dishonourable to the nation, and to the Christian religion : in a letter to a friend / by T.F. (London : Printed by J. Grover, and are to be sold by Francis Smith ..., 1681), by Thomas Firmin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse touching provision for the poor written by Sir Matthew Hale ... (London : Printed by H. Hills for John Leigh ..., 1683), by Matthew Hale (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An abstract of a proposal already laid before the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament, for employing our poor, and preventing the exportation of our coin ([London? : s.n., 1694]), by Dircy Kent (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An essay on the state of England in relation to its trade, its poor, and its taxes, for carrying on the present war against France by John Cary, merchant in Bristoll. (Bristoll : Printed by W. Bonny for the author, and are to be sold ... by Sam. Crouch ... and Tim Goodwin ... also by Tho. Wall, and Rich. Gravett ..., 1695), by John Cary (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proposal offered to the committee of the honourable House of Commons appointed to consider of ways for the better providing for the poor and setting them on work, and now under their consideration. ([London : s.n., 1700?]), by John Cary (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sir Josiah Child's proposals for the relief and employment of the poor ([London : s.n., 1670?]), by Josiah Child (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Common-good: or, The improvement of commons, forrests, and chases, by inclosure.: Wherein the advantage of the poor, the common plenty of all, and the increase and preservation of timber, with other things of common concernment, are considered. / By S.T. (London : Printed for Francis Tyton, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the three Daggers neer the Middle-Temple gate, 1652), by S. T. (Silvanus Taylor) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The two grand ingrossers of Coles: viz. the wood-monger, and the chandler.: In a dialogue, expressing their unjust, and cruell raising the price of coales, when, and how they please, to the generall oppression of the poore. Penn'd on purpose to lay open their subtile practises, and for the reliefe of many thousands of poore people, in, and about the cities of London, and Westminster. By a well-willer to the prosperity of this famous Common-wealth. (London : Printed for John Harrison at the Holy-Lamb at the east end of S. Pauls, 1653), by Well-willer to the prosperity of this famous Common-wealth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The out-cries of the poor, oppressed, & imprisoned; or A safe way to free the poor of this city and the whole nation of England, from begging and starving.: Presented to the Council of Officers, Nov. 24. by William Pryor, and Thomas Turner. To which is annexed, A plea for the poor and helpless, against the enemies of their peace. By William Pryor. (London : printed by G.D. for Francis Smith, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Elephant and Castle near Temple-Bar, 1659), by William Pryor and Thomas Turner (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the Protector.: A proclamation commanding a speedy and due execution of the lavvs made against the abominable sins of drunkenness, profane swearing and cursing, adultery, fornication, and other acts of uncleannesse; for observing the assize of bread, ale, and fewel; and touching weights, and measures; for setting the poor on work, and providing for the impotent and aged poor, and punishing rogues and vagabonds, taking accounts of church-wardens and overseers of the poor; and against disturbing of publick preachers, and profanation of the Lords day. (London : Printed by Henry Hills and Iohn Field, Printers to His Highness, 1655), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Orders in Council. 1654-05-16 (London : printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills, printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1654), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) and England and Wales. Council of State (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The crying sin of England, of not caring for the poor.: Wherein inclosure, viz. such as doth unpeople townes, and uncorn fields, is arraigned, convicted, and condemned by the Word of God. Being the chief heads of two sermons, preached at the lecture at Lutterworth in Leicester-shire in May last, and now published in love to Christ, his country, and the poor. By John Moore, minister of Knaptoft in Liecester-shire. (London : printed by T.M. for Antony Williamson, at the Queens Arms in Pauls Church Yard, 1653), by John Moore (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The mounfull cryes of many thousand poore tradesmen, who are ready to famish through decay of trade.: Or, the warning teares of the oppressed. ([London : s.n., 1648]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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