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• Charities -- Great Britain

• How to Help Cases of Distress: A Handy Reference Book for Almoners and Others (fourth edition; London: Charity Organisation Society and Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), by Charles Stewart Loch (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• 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 Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Reinventing Civil Society: The Rediscovery of Welfare Without Politics (c1993), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)

• An Abstract From the Account of the Asylum, or, House of Refuge, Situate in the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry: Instituted in the Year 1758, for the Reception of Friendless and Deserted Orphan Girls, the Settlement of Whose Parents Cannot be Found (London: Printed by order of the Guardians, 1799), by Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England) (page images at NIH)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• London Labour and the London Poor (London: Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861-1862), by Henry Mayhew
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • extra volume: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • extra volume: multiple formats at archive.org

• A Girl of the People, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• A Girl of the People: A Novel (Montreal: J. Lovell, c1890), by L. T. Meade (multiple formats at archive.org)