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• 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)

• 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

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 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)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Harvard

• 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)

• 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 (New York: International Publishers, c1937), by Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and Dorothy W. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

• The Madness of Philip, and Other Tales of Childhood (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1902.), by Josephine Daskam Bacon, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Believing Years (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)

• I'm Nobody's Child (Ardmore, PA: Whitman Pub. Co., c1982), by Kenneth J. Herrmann (PDF with commentary at Brockport)

• The Lamplighter (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, 1854), by Maria S. Cummins
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at Northwestern
• Aaron the Jew: A Novel (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1895), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• Silas Marner, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (Mobile, AL: S. H. Goetzel, 1863), by George Eliot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)

• Decline and Fall (revised edition, c1962), by Evelyn Waugh (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Red Pony (illustrator died in 1966; c1937), by John Steinbeck, illust. by Wesley Dennis (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden (Los Angeles: Seraphic Press, 2005), by Robert J. Avrech (PDF with commetary at seraphicpress.com)
• Three Rousing Cheers for the Rollo Boys (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Corey Ford, illust. by Gluyas Williams (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
• Penrod, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Penrod (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Gordon Grant (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Penrod and Sam, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Penrod and Sam (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1916), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Worth Brehm (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Dogland (prepublication version, 1997), by Will Shetterly (multiple formats at manybooks.net)
• A Child of the Jago (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1897), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Child of the Jago (New York: Duffield and Co., 1906), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance (new and cheaper edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1915), by Jeffery Farnol (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life (1929), by Thomas Wolfe (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (c1934), by James Hilton (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first edition and commentary), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford et al.: American Pub. Co., 1884), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Hole in the Wall (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1903), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text)
• Kim (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901), by Rudyard Kipling (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at americanliterature.com
• Sir Gibbie, by George MacDonald
  • multiple formats with commentary at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text
• A Son of the State (London: Methuen and Co., 1902), by W. Pett Ridge (Gutenberg text)
• Tom Brown's Schooldays (with illustrations from the 1911 Harper and Brothers edition), by Thomas Hughes, contrib. by William Dean Howells, illust. by Louis Rhead (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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