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• The Witch of Edmonton, by Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley, ed. by Ernest Rhys (HTML at luminarium.org)

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• The Condition of England, by Charles F. G. Masterman (text and other formats at theconditionofengland.com)

• Medieval England (c1999), by Steven Muhlberger (HTML at arlima.net)

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• Henrietta (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for A. Millar, 1761), by Charlotte Lennox (page images at HathiTrust)

• Yeast: A Problem, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• The Ladies of Bever Hollow: A Tale of English Country Life (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1858), by Anne Manning
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Carbonels, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text

• Jill, a Flower Girl (New York: T. Whittaker, 1893), by L. T. Meade, illust. by F. H. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Storm of Life (London: H. S. King and Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton (multiple formats at Google)

• An Utopian Dream, and How It May Be Realized (London: K. Paul, Trench and Co., 1888), by Anna Swanwick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Social Forces in England and America (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1914), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wessex Poems and Other Verses (New York: Harper, 1898), by Thomas Hardy (HTML at Bartleby)
• Wessex Poems and Other Verses (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by Thomas Hardy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wessex Poems and Other Verses (London: Macmillan and Co., 1919), by Thomas Hardy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Imagining the Future City: London 2062 (London: Ubiquity Press, c2013), ed. by Sarah Bell and James Paskins (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
• Augusta Triumphans: or, The Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe (second edition, published under "Andrew Moreton" pseudonym; London: Printed for J. Roberts, ca. 1729), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Labour of the People in London, First Series: Poverty (4 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1904), ed. by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Labour of the People in London, Second Series: Industry (5 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), ed. by Charles Booth
  • Volume 1 (Classification of the People, Building Trades, Wood and Metal Workers): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Precious Metals, Watches, Instruments, Paper and Printing Trades, Textiles, and Sundry Manufactures): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Dress, Food, Drink, Dealers, Clerks, Locomotion and Labour): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Public, Professional and Domestic Service; Unoccupied Classes; Inmates of Institutions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (Comparisons, Survey and Conclusions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes (some US access only): page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Labour of the People in London, Third Series: Religious Influences (7 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), ed. by Charles Booth
  • Volume 1 (London North of the Thames: The Outer Ring): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (London North of the Thames: The Inner Ring): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (The City of London and the West End): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Inner South London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (South-East and South-West London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (Outer South London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (Summary): multiple formats at archive.org
• Life in West London: A Study and a Contrast, by Arthur Sherwell (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• London's Underworld, by Thomas Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• The Million-Peopled City: or, One-Half of the People of London Made Known to the Other Half (1853), by John Garwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Seven Curses of London, by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Life in the London Streets (1881), by Richard Rowe (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Low-Life Deeps: An Account of the Strange Fish to be Found There (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1881), by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Unsentimental Journeys, or, Byways of the Modern Babylon, by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Wilds of London (London: Chatto and Windus, 1874), by James Greenwood, illust. by Alfred Concanen (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• 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
• Ragged London in 1861 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861), by John Hollingshead (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• Muslin (new edition, 1915), by George Moore (Gutenberg text)

• Hell Upon Earth, or, The Town in an Uproar: Occasion'd by the Late Horrible Scenes of Forgery, Perjury, Street-Robbery, Murder, Sodomy, and Other Shocking Impieties (London: Printed for J. Roberts and A. Dodd, 1729) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Albion M. Urdank (HTML at UC Press)

• Tyneside Neighbourhoods: Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One British City (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), by Daniel Nettle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Social and Political History of Rochdale (ca. 1889), by William Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lolly Willowes: or, The Loving Huntsman (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Sylvia Townsend Warner (multiple formats at HathiTrust)

• The Midwives Book: or, The Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered, Directing Childbearing Women How to Behave Themselves in Their Conception, Breeding, Bearing, and Nursing of Children (London: Printed for S. Miller, 1671), by Mrs. Jane Sharp (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Writer of Books (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by George Paston (multiple formats at Google; US access only)