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• Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry. Including a history of her labors in promoting the reformation of female prisoners, and the improvement of British seamen. (Stanford and Swords, 1847), by Thomas Timpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabeth Fry, by Emma Raymond Pitman (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Story of John Howard the prison-reformer (London (Paternoster Row) and New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1879) (page images at Florida)

• Elizabeth Fry (Roberts Brothers, 1884), by Emma Raymond Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Howard (Knight & Millet, 1902), by Edgar C. S. Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry : including a history of her labors in promoting the reformation of female prisoners, and the improvement of British seamen (Aylott and Jones, 1847), by Thomas Timpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabeth Fry (American Sunday-School Union, 1851), by American Sunday-School Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabeth Fry (Roberts Brothers, 1886), by Emma Raymond Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabeth Fry. (Little, Brown, 1901), by Emma Raymond Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the public and private life of John Howard, the philanthropist (T. and G. Underwood, 1823), by James Baldwin Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Howard's winter's journey (Thos. De La Rue, 1882), by William A. Guy (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Howard and the prison-world of Europe (Jackson and Walford, 1850), by William Hepworth Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Howard : a lecture (Beds. Pub. Co. ;, 1899), by H. H. Scullard, Watson & Viney Hazell, and Beds. Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lecture on the public life and character of Elizabeth Fry. (Ward, 1862), by Charles Gordelier and England) Elizabeth Fry Refuge (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Howard, compiled from his diary, his confidential letters, and other authentic documents. Abridged by a gentleman of Boston, from the London quarto edition. (Lincoln and Edmands, 1831), by James Baldwin Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clara Temple Leonard, 1828-1904, a memoir of her life by her daughter. (Press of Loring-Axtell Co., 1908), by Katharine H. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)

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• International penitentiary congress ([s.n.], 1872), by Joseph R. Chandler and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Howard : a lecture (Beds. Pub. Co. ;, 1899), by H. H. Scullard, Watson & Viney Hazell, and Beds. Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ode, inscribed to John Howard, Esq. F.R.S., author of "The state of English and foreign prisons" (Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1781), by William Hayley, Francesco Bartolozzi, and James Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorandum of a late visit to the Auburn penitentiary (J. Harding, printer, 1842), by Frederick A. Packard and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Mott Osborne : Osborne's place in historic criminology (Harvard Graduates' Magazine, 1927), by John Jay Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Comité administratif et règlement (Ch. Aug. Desoer, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1888), by Société de patronage des condamnés détenus & libérés (page images at HathiTrust)

• [Letter] in making out our annual appeal to the county councils of the province for the annual grant, and in the interests of prison reform .. (s.n., 1897), by Prisoners' Aid Association of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada (c2012), by Ted McCoy (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Report of the Prison Reform Conference, held in Toronto, November 27th, 1891. Also, The seventeenth annual report of the Prisoners' Aid Association of Canada for the year 1891 (s.n., 1891), by Ont.) Prison Reform Conference (1891 : Toronto and Prisoners' Aid Association of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Prison Reform Conference held in Toronto, December 13th, 1892. Also, The eighteenth annual report of the Prisoners' Aid Association of Canada for the year 1892 (s.n., 1893), by Ont.) Prison Reform Conference (3rd : 1892 : Toronto and Prisoners' Aid Association of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Letter] about six months ago we issued a circular to all the county councils of the province, soliciting donations to the Toronto Prisoners' Aid Association .. (s.n., 1883), by Ont.) Prisoners' Aid Association (Toronto (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ode, inscribed to John Howard, Esq. F.R.S., author of "The state of English and foreign prisons" (Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1781), by William Hayley, Francesco Bartolozzi, and James Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Third annual report of the New Jersey Prison Reform Association, : together with the proceedings of the third annual meeting, held in the city of Trenton, on the 14th day of January, and on the 3d and 4th of February, 1852. (Printed by Phillips & Boswell, Trenton., 1852), by New Jersey Prison Reform Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhoda M. Coffin: Her Reminiscences, Addresses, Papers and Ancestry (New York: Grafton Press, 1910), by Rhoda M. Coffin, ed. by Mary Coffin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The story of Canada Blackie (T. Allen, 1916), by Anne P. L. Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorandum of a late visit to the Auburn penitentiary (J. Harding, printer, 1842), by Frederick A. Packard and Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1981), by Estelle B. Freedman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text)
• Harriet Martineau's autobiography (Smith, Elder, 1877), by Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman, and Elder Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge; a leader in the new South (The University of Chicago press, 1921), by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge and University of Chicago Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to the homes of great reformers (The Roycrofters, 1907), by Elbert Hubbard and Roycroft Shop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bishop Potter, the people's friend (T. Whittaker, 1910), by Harriette A. Keyser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Margaret Ethel MacDonald, 1870-1911. ([s.n.], 1911), by James Ramsay MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)

• Autobiography of the life and times of the Rev. George Pegler. (Wesleyan Methodist Pub. House, 1879), by George Pegler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of John Brown (Girard, Kansas : Haldeman-Julius Company, [1924], 1924), by Michael Gold, Lisa Unger Baskin, Haldeman-Julius Company, Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library), and John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Wilberforce : his friends and his times (Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866), by John C. Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Wilberforce : his friends and his times (Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867), by John C. Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief memoir of the life of John F. Slater of Norwich, Connecticut, 1815 to 1884 (The Trustees, 1894), by S. H. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Father Mathew, the temperance apostle: his character and biography. (New York, in the 1860s), by Samuel R. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)

• Margery Spring Rice: Pioneer of Women's Health in the Early Twentieth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Lucy Pollard (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• 4 noble women and their work (S.W. Partridge & Co., 1898), by Jennie Chappell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Unbridling the Tongues of Women: A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence (republished, c2010), by Susan Magarey (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• An Autobiography, by Catherine Helen Spence (Gutenberg text)

• Recollections of Life and Work: Being the Autobiography of Louisa Twining (London: E. Arnold, 1893), by Louisa Twining
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• Leben des Grafen Ludwig von Zinzendorf (Reimer, 1846), by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (page images at HathiTrust)

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