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Consolation

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• Grief
• Loneliness
• Suffering

• Bereavement

• Consolation -- Early works to 1800
• Consolation -- Religious aspects

• Solace

• Thy Will Be Done: Sickness, Faith, and the God Who Heals (c2011), by Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Blumhardt (PDF at plough.com)
• Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (with language modernized by the editor; London and New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951), by Thomas More, ed. by Monica Stevens (Gutenberg text)
• Comfort for Christians, by Arthur Walkington Pink (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing, by E. H. Chapin (Gutenberg text)
• The Early Dead, or Transplanted Flowers: A Collection of Thoughts, Poetical and Scriptural, on the Death of Children (Worcester, MA: H. J. Howland, 1857), ed. by William C. Whitcomb (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)
• The Ministry of Comfort, by J. R. Miller (HTML at jr-miller.com)
• The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing (1917), by Mary Webb (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Voices From the Silent Land: or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; London: Low and Co., 1853), ed. by Martha Noyes Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Voices From the Silent Land: or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; London: Low and Co., 1858), ed. by Martha Noyes Williams (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• In God's Waiting Room: Learning Through Suffering, by Lehman Strauss (HTML at bible.org)

• Cardanus Comforte: Translated Into Englishe and Published by Commaundement of the Right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford (London: T. Marsh, 1573), by Girolamo Cardano, trans. by Thomas Bedingfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Swete and Devoute Sermon of Holy Saynt Ciprian of Mortalitie of Man; The Rules of a Christian Lyfe Made by Picus Erle of Mirandula: Bothe Translated Into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyghte (London: T. Bertheleti, 1534), by Saint Cyprian and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, trans. by Thomas Elyot (at name.umdl.umich.edu)
• Ad Martyras (from a 1900 SPCK edition), by Tertullian, trans. by T. Herbert Bindley (HTML at tertullian.org)
• Ad Martyras, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• A Token for Mourners, With a Selection of Scripture Promises, Relative To the Troubles of Life (Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers, ca. 1835) (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Voices From the Silent Land: or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; London: Low and Co., 1853), ed. by Martha Noyes Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Voices From the Silent Land: or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; London: Low and Co., 1858), ed. by Martha Noyes Williams (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Survival is Not Enough, by Yehoshua Zamir, trans. by Ron Schkolnick (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Selected Journals on Grieving: King's College 16th International Conference on Death and Bereavement, May 10-13, 1998, London, Ontario, Canada, ed. by Harry Van Bommel (HTML at carelibrary.com)

• Natural Trouble (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Scott Hightower (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Tears for the Little Ones: A Collection of Poems and Passages Inspired by the Loss of Children (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1878), by Helen Kendrick Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bereavement: Reactions, Consequences, and Care (1984), ed. by Marian Osterweis, Fredric Solomon, and Morris Green (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Janne "Beyond Life" (second edition, 2005), by Ilse Johnsen and Kjeld Johnsen, trans. by Lee Litle and Mette Saxbjørn (frame-dependent PDF with commentary at freebook-sorrow.com)

• Bereavement: Reactions, Consequences, and Care (1984), ed. by Marian Osterweis, Fredric Solomon, and Morris Green (page images with commentary at NAP)

• How Could a Loving God...? Powerful Answers on Suffering (Petersburg, KY: Answers in Genesis, 2006), by Ken Ham (HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)

• Waldo, Tell Me About Dying, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• How Could a Loving God...? Powerful Answers on Suffering (Petersburg, KY: Answers in Genesis, 2006), by Ken Ham (HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing, by E. H. Chapin (Gutenberg text)

• How to Survive the Loss of a Love, by Melba Colgrove, Harold H. Bloomfield, and Peter McWilliams (HTML at drugsense.org)

• Household Puzzles (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., c1875), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials: Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2008), by Erika Doss (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• The Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction (New York: New York University Press, 1994), by Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Tears for the Little Ones: A Collection of Poems and Passages Inspired by the Loss of Children (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1878), by Helen Kendrick Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gladiator (New York: Knopf, 1930), by Philip Wylie
  • Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Girl Next Door (New York: The Century Co., c1917), by Augusta Huiell Seaman, illust. by C. M. Relyea
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Catskill Fairies (New York: Harper and Bros., 1876), by Virginia W. Johnson, illust. by Alfred Fredericks
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Florida
• The Cuckoo Clock (London: Macmillan and Co., 1893), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Crane (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Cuckoo Clock (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Cuckoo Clock (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1914), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Maria Louise Kirk (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Letters and Papers by the Late Theodosia A. Viscountess Powerscourt (London: Hatchard and Son, 1838), by Theodosia A. Powerscourt, ed. by Robert Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The School of Calvary; or, Sharing His Suffering, by John Henry Jowett (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Odd (London: Religious Tract Society, 1919), by Amy Le Feuvre (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Odd One (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1897), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Mary A. Lathbury (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Meat Out of the Eater: or, Meditations Concerning the Necessity, End, and Usefulness of Afflictions Unto Gods Children, All Tending to Prepare Them For, and Comfort Them Under the Crosse (Cambridge, MA: Printed by S. Green and M. Johnson for J. Usher, 1670), by Michael Wigglesworth
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • photocopy: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Crook in the Lot, by Thomas Boston (HTML at iclnet.org)

• The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern Literature, Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Walter J. Slatoff
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

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