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• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Indiana)
• The Laws Respecting Women, as They Regard Their Natural Rights or Their Connections and Conduct: In Which Their Interests and Duties as Daughters, Wards, Heiresses, Spinsters, Sisters, Wives, Widows, Mothers, Legatees, Executrixes, etc., are Ascertained and Enumerated; Also, the Obligations of Parent and Child, and the Condition of Minors (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1777) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Indiana)

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

• Abandoned to the State: Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages, by Kathleen Hunt (HTML at hrw.org)

• You'll Learn Not to Cry: Child Combatants in Colombia (in English and Spanish; New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, 2003), by Sebastian Brett (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Child Welfare Legislation: Work of the Indiana Sub-Commission on Child Welfare of the Commission on Child Welfare and Social Insurance (published as v. 7, no. 1 of the Bulletin of the Extension Division, Indiana University; 1921), by Albion Fellows Bacon and Edna Hatfield Edmondson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Uganda, "Breaking God's Commands": The Destruction of Childhood by the Lord's Resistance Army (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• Laws Affecting Women and Children in the Suffrage and Non-Suffrage States (second edition; New York: National Woman Suffrage Pub. Co., 1917), by Annie G. Porritt (multiple formats at LOC)

• Betraying the Young: Human Rights Violations Against Children in the US Justice System (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)

• Venezuela: The Silent Cry: Gross Human Rights Violations Against Children (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Venezuela: The Silent Cry: Gross Human Rights Violations Against Children (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• 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 Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2012), ed. by Clark Butler (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, by Graça Machel (HTML with commentary at UNICEF)

• Samantha on Children's Rights (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1909), by Marietta Holley, illust. by Charles Grunwald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Crusaders for Freedom (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1962), by Henry Steele Commager, illust. by Mimi Korach (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children in South Asia: Securing Their Rights, by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• The Adventures of ABC (London et al.: R. Tuck and Sons, 1900) (page images at Princeton)

• Babes of the Empire: An Alphabet for Young England (London: W. Heinemann, 1902), by Thomas Stevens, illust. by A. H. Collins (page images at Princeton)

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

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

• A Short History of Education (second edition; London: Ralph Holland and Co., 1904), by George Benson Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)

• My Schools and Schoolmasters: or, The Story of My Education (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 1889), by Hugh Miller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Schools and Schoolmasters: or, The Story of My Education (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 1907), by Hugh Miller, ed. by W. M. Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Education and Employment of Women, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)

• William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (2 volumes; Urbana: University of Illinois press, 1944), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (2 volumes; Urbana: University of Illinois press, 1944), 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

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

• An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts and Tongues; With An Answer to the Objections Against This Way of Education (London: Printed by J. D. to be sold by T. Parkhurst, 1673), by Bathsua Makin (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts and Tongues; With An Answer to the Objections Against This Way of Education (London: Printed by J. D. to be sold by T. Parkhurst, 1673), by Bathsua Makin (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• 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)

• 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)

• Marriage-Lite: The Rise of Cohabitation and its Consequences (c2000), by Patricia M. Morgan (PDF at Civitas)

• The Child Welfare Movement (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), by Janet E. Lane-Claypon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Indiana)

• Swedish Lessons: How Schools With More Freedom Can Deliver Better Education (c2008), by Nick Cowen (PDF at Civitas)
• The Elements of Reconstruction: A Series of Articles Contributed in July and August 1916 to the Times by "D.P." (third impression; London: Nisbet and Co., 1917), by H. G. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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

• The Children of Looked After Children: Outcomes, Experiences and Ensuring Meaningful Support to Young Parents in and Leaving Care (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, c2021), by Louise Roberts (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

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