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• Helen Fleetwood (London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1841), by Charlotte Elizabeth
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
• David Copperfield (2 volumes; Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, ca. 1850), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Children's Story of David Copperfield (adaptation of Dickens by unknown author; Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., 1926), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Ray Gleason (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Child Labor Question in Alabama: A Plea for Immediate Action (pamphlet #59; New York: National Child Labor Committee, ca. 1907), by Edgar Gardner Murphy (page images at Harvard)
• Rural School Attendance in Alabama (pamphlet #287; New York: National Child Labor Committee, 1918), by Eva Joffe (page images at Harvard)

• Kinderarbeit und Gesetzlicher Kinderschutz in Österreich (Wiener Staatswissenschaftliche Studien v5 #3, in German; Vienna and Leipzig: F. Deuticke, 1904), by Siegmund Kraus
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan (publication #115; Washington: GPO, 1923), by United States Children's Bureau, contrib. by Ellen Nathalie Matthews and Gertrude Underhill Light (page images at Harvard)

• By the Sweat and Toil of Children: A Report to Congress (initial child labor report, 1994), by United States Department of Labor (HTML and PDF at dol.gov)

• The Factory Girl (originally published 1814; with extensive added notes), by Sarah Savage, ed. by Duncan Faherty and Ed White (PDF with commentary at common-place.org)
• The Young Apprentice (credited to "the author of Fern's Hollow", i.e. Stretton; Boston: H. Hoyt, n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Curse of the Factory System: or, A Short Account of the Origin of Factory Cruelties; Of the Attempts to Protect the Children by Law; Of Their Present Sufferings; Our Duty Towards Them; Injustice of Mr. Thomson's Bill; The Folly of the Political Economists; A Warning Against Sending the Children of the South into the Factories of the North (London : A. Cobbett, ca. 1836), by John Fielden (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social Study (1912), by Frances Blascoer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Ambivalent Encounters: Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, c2012), by Jennifer Huberman (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Ben, the Luggage Boy: or, Among the Wharves, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Katy's Christmas (volume 1 of The Doll's Club series; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1871), by Virginia W. Johnson (illustrated HTML at readseries.com)
• Sue: A Little Heroine, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• Stephen, M.D. (New York: Robert Carter and Bros., c1883), by Susan Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys (10th edition, 1904), by Gulielma Zollinger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Resolutions Adopted by First International Congress of Working Women, Washington, U.S.A., October 28 to November 6, 1919, by International Congress of Working Women (page images at Harvard)

• The Eight Hour Day for Children Under Sixteen: Address of Curtis Guild (Boston: Massachusetts Child Labor Committee, ca. 1913), by Curtis Guild (page images at HathiTrust)

• Child Toilers of Boston Streets (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1879), by E. E. Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Child Labor and the Work of Mothers in the Beet Fields of Colorado and Michigan (publication #115; Washington: GPO, 1923), by United States Children's Bureau, contrib. by Ellen Nathalie Matthews and Gertrude Underhill Light (page images at Harvard)

• A Voice from the Factories (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1836), by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana

• Child Workers in America (second edition; New York: International Publishers, c1937), by Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and Dorothy W. Douglas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Youth in Industry (International Pamphlets #13, second edition; New York: International Pamphlets, 1932), by Grace Hutchins (PDF at flvc.org)
• Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation of the Anxious Problem of Child Labor, its Causes, its Crimes, and its Cure (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., 1914), by Edwin Markham, Ben B. Lindsey, and George Creel, contrib. by Owen R. Lovejoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experience of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experience of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls (London: Grant Richards, 1903), by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls (Toronto: G. N. Morang Co., 1903), by Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Child (partial serial archives)
• The Child Labor Bulletin (full serial archives)

• Letters to Our Working Party (New York: E. and J.B. Young and Co., n.d.), by Evelyn Whitaker (PDF and text with commentary at evelynwhitakerlibrary.org)

• Our Little English Cousin (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, c1908), by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

• William Shakspere's Petty School (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1943), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645) (2 volumes; London: Burns and Oates, 1882-1885), by Mary Catharine Elizabeth Chambers, ed. by Henry James Coleridge
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Improvements in Education, As It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community (London: Darton and Harvey, 1803), by Joseph Lancaster (multiple formats at Google)

• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Oswald Bastable, and Others, by E. Nesbit, illust. by C. E. Brock and H. R. Millar (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Dick Trevanion: A Story of Eighteen Hundred and Four (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911), by Herbert Strang, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Enchanted Castle (London: T. F. Unwin, 1907), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs (c1891), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Early English Meals and Manners (EETS original series #32; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench. Trubner and Co., 1868, reprinted 1904), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (Gutenberg text)
• Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert); A Booke of Precedence, The Ordering of a Funerall, &c.; Varying Versions of The Good Wife, The Wise Man, &c.; Maxims, Lydgate's Order of Fools, A Poem on Heraldry, Occleve on Lord's Men, &c. (with Essays on Early Italian and German Books of Courtesy; EETS extra series #8; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1869), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by Humphrey Gilbert, William Michael Rossetti, and Eugene Oswald (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Final Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Working of the Elementary Education Acts, England and Wales (with dissents, reservations, and appendices; London: HMSO, 1888), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Education (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Second Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Working of the Elementary Education Acts, England and Wales (London: HMSO, 1887), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Third Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Working of the Elementary Education Acts, England and Wales (London: HMSO, 1887), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Education (page images at HathiTrust)

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