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• Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury (redacted copy of the Pennsylvania Diocese Victims Report, with responses; ca. 2018), by Pennsylvania Statewide Grand Jury (PDF with commentary at attorneygeneral.gov)

• Response of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to the Report of the Investigating Grand Jury (2005), by Catholic Church Archdiocese of Philadelphia (Pa.) (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Grand Jury Report on the Sexual Abuse of Minors by Clergy (2005; with commentary and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Response), by Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (PDF files with commentary at bishop-acountability.org)

• Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Neustein (page images and PDF at Brandeis)
• Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children (c1988), by Annie Laurie Gaylor (HTML with commentary at ffrf.org)
• The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010: A Report Presented to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops by the John Jay College Research Team (Washington: US Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2011), by Karen J. Terry, Margaret Leland Smith, Katarina Schuth, James R. Kelly, Brenda Vollman, and Christina Massey (PDF at usccb.org)
• The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States, 1950-2002: A Research Study Conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York (Washington: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2004), by John Jay College of Criminal Justice (PDF at usccb.org)

• Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Neustein (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010: A Report Presented to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops by the John Jay College Research Team (Washington: US Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2011), by Karen J. Terry, Margaret Leland Smith, Katarina Schuth, James R. Kelly, Brenda Vollman, and Christina Massey (PDF at usccb.org)
• The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States, 1950-2002: A Research Study Conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York (Washington: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2004), by John Jay College of Criminal Justice (PDF at usccb.org)

• Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury (redacted copy of the Pennsylvania Diocese Victims Report, with responses; ca. 2018), by Pennsylvania Statewide Grand Jury (PDF with commentary at attorneygeneral.gov)

• Response of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to the Report of the Investigating Grand Jury (2005), by Catholic Church Archdiocese of Philadelphia (Pa.) (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Grand Jury Report on the Sexual Abuse of Minors by Clergy (2005; with commentary and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Response), by Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (PDF files with commentary at bishop-acountability.org)

• A Victorian Curate: A Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by David N. Yeandle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Life at Threescore and Ten (New York, American Tract Society, c1871), by Albert Barnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Historic Dress of the Clergy (London: W. Andrews and Co., ca. 1897), by Geo. S. Tyack (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware, and Georgia (Lancaster, MA: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1950), by Frederick Lewis Weis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Painted Windows: Studies in Religious Personality, by a Gentleman with a Duster (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922), by Harold Begbie, contrib. by Kirsopp Lake, illust. by Emile Verpilleux (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Death Comes for the Archbishop (c1927), by Willa Cather
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Death Comes for the Archbishop (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1927), by Willa Cather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the Parish (London and Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1910), by John Galt, illust. by Henry Wright Kerr (Gutenberg text)
• A Cure of Souls (New York: Macmillan, 1924), by May Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Ward, Preacher, by Margaret Deland (Gutenberg text)
• The Parson's Progress (London et al.: Cassell and Co., c1923), by Compton Mackenzie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Perpetual Curate, by Mrs. Oliphant (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Rector of St. Mark's, by Mary Jane Holmes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Seer (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by Perley Poore Sheehan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unleavened Bread (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by Robert Grant
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Vicar of Wakefield (main text from 1903 A. and C. Black edition; illustrations and accompanying essays from various editions), by Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by Louise Hope, contrib. by Joseph Grego, John Forster, and Austin Dobson, illust. by John Massey Wright, Margaret Jameson, and William Mulready (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Vicar of Wrexhill (new edition, revised; London: R. Bentley, 1840), by Frances Milton Trollope
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Abbe Mouret's Transgression, by Émile Zola, ed. by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (Gutenberg text)
• Foul Play, by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault
  • illustrated HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• Foul Play (based on an undated Grolier Society edition, with additional illustrations), by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and George Du Maurier (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Framley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• In His Steps, by Charles M. Sheldon
  • HTML at kancoll.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Housman Thomas (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher: A Tale of the War of 1812 (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1880), by W. H. Withrow (Gutenberg text)
• The Preacher of Cedar Mountain: A Tale of the Open Country (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1917), by Ernest Thompson Seton, illust. by Clarence Rowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Prudence Palfrey: A Novel (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874), by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at Northwestern
• Scenes of Clerical Life, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• The Small House at Allington, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Small House at Allington (2 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1864), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Thomas Wingfold, Curate, by George MacDonald (Gutenberg text)
• The Vicar of Bullhampton (London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 1870), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by H. Woods (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Picketing Hell: A Fictitious Narrative (New York: W. Malliet and Co., 1942), by A. Clayton Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• The Calling of Dan Matthews, by Harold Bell Wright (Gutenberg text)
• Father Eustace: A Tale of the Jesuits (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1847), by Frances Milton Trollope
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Man As He Is Not: or, Hermsprong (18th volume of a "British Novelists" set; London: F. C. and J. Rivington; et al.. 1810), by Robert Bage, contrib. by Mrs. Barbauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Minister's Wooing (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• The Minister's Wooing (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• The Warden, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• The Scandal of Father Brown (1935), by G. K. Chesterton (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Secret of Father Brown (c1927), by G. K. Chesterton
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), by G. K. Chesterton
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family (New York: M. W. Dodd, 1865), by Elizabeth Rundle Charles (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Damnation of Theron Ware, by Harold Frederic
  • multiple formats at Standard Ebooks
  • Gutenberg text
• Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Father Clement: A Roman Catholic Story (8th edition; Edinburgh: W. Oliphant and Son, 1834), by Grace Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Innocence of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton
  • HTML at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• The Innocence of Father Brown (New York: The Macaulay Co., c1911), by G. K. Chesterton
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (based on the first editions), by Laurence Sterne, ed. by Günter Jürgensmeier (PDF at gasl.org)
• Prester John, by John Buchan (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter (Ticknor and Fields edition, 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (illustrated edition; New York: G. H. Doran Co., n.d.), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illust. by Hugh Thomson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, by Laurence Sterne
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
• A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900), by Laurence Sterne (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Wisdom of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton
  • HTML at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading

More items available under broader and related terms at left.