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• Deaconesses

• Great American Foundresses (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Joseph B. Code (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Deaconesses: Biblical, Early Church, European, American; With the Story of the Chicago Training School, for City, Home and Foreign Missions, and the Chicago Deaconess Home (second edition; Chicago: Message Pub. Co., c1889), by Lucy Rider Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deaconess Manual of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1902), by Abraham Grant (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the Practical Training of Deaconesses, Under the Direction of the Rev. Pastor Fliedner: Embracing the Support and Care of a Hospital, Infant and Industrial Schools, and a Female Penitentiary (published anonymously, but attributed to Nightingale in some sources; London: Printed by the inmates of the London Ragged Colonial Training School, 1851), contrib. by Florence Nightingale (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Women of the Cell and Cloister (London: Methuen and Co., c1913), by Ethel Rolt-Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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

• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal: Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never Before Published (New York: De Witt & Davenport, c1855), by Maria Monk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal : Revised, With an Appendix Containing, Part I. Reception of the First Editions. Part II. Sequel of Her Narrative. Part III. Review of the Case : Also, a Supplement, Giving More Particulars of the Nunnery and Grounds (New York: M. Monk, 1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, Or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed, Illustrated With Upwards of Forty Engravings (Manchester, England: Milner and Company, ca.1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Affidavit of Maria Monk's Mother (ca. 1835), by Isabella Mills (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal : Revised, With an Appendix Containing, Part I. Reception of the First Editions. Part II. Sequel of Her Narrative. Part III. Review of the Case : Also, a Supplement, Giving More Particulars of the Nunnery and Grounds (New York: M. Monk, 1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, Or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed, Illustrated With Upwards of Forty Engravings (Manchester, England: Milner and Company, ca.1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Awful Exposure of the Atrocious Plot Formed by Certain Individuals Against the Clergy and Nuns of Lower Canada, Through the Intervention of Maria Monk (New York: Printed for Jones and Co. of Montreal, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further Disclosures By Maria Monk, Concerning the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal Also, Her Visit to Nuns' Island, and Disclosures Concerning That Secret Retreat: Preceded By a Reply to the Priests' Book (New York: Pub. for M. Monk, 1837), by Maria Monk and John Jay Slocum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal: Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never Before Published (New York: De Witt & Davenport, c1855), by Maria Monk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Maria Monk's Daughter: An Autobiography (New York: United States Pub. Co., 1875), by L. St. John Eckel Harper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The True History of Maria Monk (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1895) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Awful Exposure of the Atrocious Plot Formed by Certain Individuals Against the Clergy and Nuns of Lower Canada, Through the Intervention of Maria Monk (New York: Printed for Jones and Co. of Montreal, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (HTML at Wisconsin)

• Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany (c2008), by Erika Lauren Lindgren (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Medieval English Nunneries, c. 1275 to 1535 (Cambridge, UK: At the University press, 1922), by Eileen Power
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Way of Perfection, by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The White Sister, by F. Marion Crawford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601 (c2002), by Jacqueline Zuzann Holler (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Beguines and Beghards in Medieval Culture, With Special Emphasis on the Belgian Scene (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1954), by Ernest William McDonnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hidden Life: Hagiographic Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Texts, by Edith Stein (HTML in Austria)

• Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
• House of Hospitality (1939), by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)
• Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical (3 volumes from various editions printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literature of Philanthropy (New York: Harper and Bros., 1893), ed. by Frances A. Goodale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Social Diagnosis (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917), by Mary Ellen Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women of Canada: Their Life and Work (ca.1900), by National Council of Women of Canada (multiple formats at archive.org)

• South Carolina Women in the Confederacy (Columbia, SC: The State Co., 1903-1907), by United Daughters of the Confederacy South Carolina Division
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Memoir on Pauperism (London: Civitas, c1997), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Seymour Drescher, contrib. by Gertrude Himmelfarb (PDF at Civitas)
• Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women, By Eminent Writers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1893), ed. by Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Isle of Man Charities (1831), by J. McHutchin and George Quirk (HTML at Manx Note Book)

• History of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (page images at MOA)

• The Charities Review (full serial archives)
• The Charity Organisation Review (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (full serial archives)

• Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)

• American Charities (revised edition; New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1908), by Amos Griswold Warner and Mary Roberts Coolidge, contrib. by George Elliott Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Behind the Bars (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1871), by Adeline T. P. Lunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook of Organization and Method in Hospital Social Service: An Outline of Policies As Practiced at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. (Baltimore: Norman, Remington Co., 1922), by Margaret Smith Brogden (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits; With an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools (third edition, with added material; London: J. Tonson, 1724), by Bernard Mandeville (multiple formats at Google)

• Humanitarian Politics (Headline Series #304; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1995), by Larry Minear and Thomas G. Weiss (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)

• The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2007), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• To Bear Witness: A Journey of Healing and Solidarity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Story of Near East Relief (1915-1930): An Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, 1930), by James L. Barton, contrib. by Calvin Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.