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• The Citizen's Body: Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Pamela K. Gilbert (PDF at Ohio State)
• Social History and Law Reform (Hamlyn Lectures, #31; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by O. R. McGregor (PDF in the UK)
• Culture and Anarchy (first edition, 1869), by Matthew Arnold (Gutenberg text)
• Culture and Anarchy (third edition; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1882), by Matthew Arnold (HTML at Wikisource)
• Latter-Day Pamphlets, ed. by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg text)
• Past and Present (New York: W. H. Colyer, 1843), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Past and Present (with an appreciation by Emerson published in 1843), by Thomas Carlyle, contrib. by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg text)
• The Autobiography of a Working Man (London: C. Gilpin; et al., 1848), by Alexander Somerville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bygones Worth Remembering (2 volumes; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1905), by George Jacob Holyoake
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Hampden in the Nineteenth Century: or, Colloquies on the Errors and Improvement of Society (2 volumes; London: E. Moxon, 1831), by John Minter Morgan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (revised and expanded edition), by John Foster (Gutenberg text)
• Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), by George Jacob Holyoake (HTML in the UK)
• The mud cabin; or, The character and tendency of British institutions, as illustrated in their effect upon human character and destiny. (D. Appleton & company, 1853), by Warren Isham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yeast; a problem. (Macmillan, 1881), by Charles Kingsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Berry papers, being the correspondence hitherto unpublished of Mary and Agnes Berry (1763-1852) (John Lane, 1914), by Mary Berry, Lewis Melville, and Agnes Berry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fifty years of national progress, 1837-1887. - (G. Routledge, 1887), by Michael George Mulhall (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'action de la noblesse et des classes supérieures dans les sociétés modernes, d'aprés les documents officiels. (Guillaumin, 1848), by L. Mounier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of European society : with an exposition and vindication of the principles of social democracy (W. Reeves, 1885), by John Sketchley (page images at HathiTrust)
• England's ruin : John Smith's answer to Mr. Blatchford's plea for socialism as contained in the widely circulated book, Merrie England : the subject considered from a Bible point of view. (Office of "The Christadelphian", 1908), by Robert Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• National progress in the queen's reign, 1837-1897 (G. Routledge, 1897), by Michael George Mulhall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-revolutionary tracts (J. Masters, 1848), by Sosthenes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of a labour leader : the autobiography of John Wilson, (T. F. Unwin, 1910), by John Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• National distress; its causes and remedies. (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844), by S. Laing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The signs of the times, or, The approach of the millennium : an address to the Tories, Whigs, Radicals, and chartists, churchmen ... in Great Britain and Ireland (Home Colonization Society ;, 1841), by Robert Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second annual report of the poor law commissioners for England and Wales; : with appendixes A.B.C.D. (Published by authority, by Charles Knight & Co., 22, Ludgate Street. :, 1836), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners, John Smithlead, William Clowes and Sons, Charles Knight & Co, and Great Britain Home Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook to political questions of the day : and the arguments on either side (John Murray, 1888), by Sydney Buxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Radical programme (Chapman and Hall, 1885), by Joseph Chamberlain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fors clavigera: letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain. (Reuwee, Wattley & Walsh, 1891), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixty years of an agitator's life (T. Fisher Unwin, 1900), by George Jacob Holyoake (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Merrie England (Clarion Newspaper Co., 1895), by Robert Blatchford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fors clavigera : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (J. Wiley, 1886), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks upon some of the movements of the present time as they affect the religious, political, and social progress of the nation (Williams and Norgate, 1872), by T. St. Leger Alcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fanny Burney and her friends: select passages from her diary and other writings (Charles Scribner's sons, 1892), by Fanny Burney and Leonard Benton Seeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civilization, taxation, and representation; or Man's social position, fiscal responsibility, and political rights, defined in accordance with natural law. (W. Ridgway, 1867), by George Holloway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fors clavigera : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (Printed for the author by Smith, Elder & Co. ... and sold only by Mr. G. Allen ..., 1871), by John Ruskin and Kate Greenaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philanthropy : the philosophy of happiness, practically applied to the social, political and commercial relations of Great Britain (Edward Churton, 1835), by Mrs. Loudon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who are insulting the working classes? Talbot collection of British pamphlets (s.n., 1879), by A working man (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three estates : or, Household suffrage in its relation to capital and labour (J. Heywood, 1880), by Publicola (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letters of S.G.O. : a series of letters on public affairs written by the Rev. Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne and published in "The Times" 1844-1888 (Griffith, Farren, Okeden & Welsh, 1890), by Sidney Godolphin Osborne and Arnold White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fors claveriga : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (Merrill and Baker, in the 1890s), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of population. Its consequences and its bearing upon human conduct and morals. (A. K. Butts, 1878), by Annie Wood Besant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chartism (John W. Lovell company, 1885), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chartism. (C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1840), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fame and glory of England vindicated : being an answer to "The glory and shame of England." (Wiley and Putnam, 1842), by Peter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mécanisme de la société en France et en Angleterre. (Lenormand, 1833), by M. Rubichon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Approach of the millennium. (Home Colonization Society, 1841), by Robert Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remedies suggested for some of the evils which constitute "The perils of the nation". (Seeley Burnside and Seeley, 1844), by Robert Benton Seeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why do men starve? (Printed by Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, 1882), by Charles Bradlaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wealth, work, and want : an examination of the existing social condition, its evils, and proposed reforms (London Literary Society, 1885), by Edwin Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some social and political pioneers of the nineteenth century (S. Sonnenschein, 1900), by Ramsden Balmforth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collected works of Thomas Carlyle. (Chapman and Hall, 1858), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• State education self-defeating. A chapter from Social statics; or, The conditions essential to human happiness specified, and the first of them developed. (Chapman, 1851), by Herbert Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economist (Printed for Knight and Lacey, 55, Paternoster-Row ; and, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reforms and reformers of England (T. Nelson, 1853), by Henry Brewster Stanton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Past and present (Chapman and Hall, 1843), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social science. John Cassell's prize essays (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1861), by John Cassell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fors clavigera : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (Belford, Clarke & Co., 1871), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Let there be light! (W. Reeves, 1895), by John Morrison Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Culture and anarchy : an essay in political and social criticism (Smith, Elder, & Co., 1875), by Matthew Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• K voprosu o teorīi sot︠s︡ialʹnago razvitīi︠a︡ : v vidu nedavni︠a︡go uvlechenīi︠a︡ utopicheskim fatalizmom (Izd. S. Dorovatovskago i A. Charushnikova, 1903), by Nikolaĭ Kataev (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glances at inner England a lecture delivered in the United States and Canada (H.S. King, 1874), by Edward Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conservative science of nations (preliminary instalment) being the first complete narrative of Somerville's diligent life in the service of public safety in Britain (J. Lovell;, 1860), by Alexander Somerville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The white slaves of England : being true pictures of certain social conditions in the kingdom of England in the year 1897 (J. Bowden ;, 1898), by Robert Harborough Sherard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The causes of social revolt; a lecture, delivered in London, Portsmouth, Bradford, Nottingham, Derby, and Greenwich. (Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1872), by Frederick Augustus Maxse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yeast : a problem (J.F. Taylor, 1899), by Charles Kingsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hero-worship. (Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club. (Chapman & Hall, 1900), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook to political questions of the day. With the arguments on either side. (J. Murray, 1884), by Sydney Buxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and social problems. (Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1893), by A. Scott Matheson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Questions of the day : social, national, and religious : being addresses delivered in St. Martin's church, Leicester, on special occasions between the years 1870 and 1890 (Macmillian, 1894), by David James Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fors clavigers; letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain. (J. B. Alden, 1885), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay upon projects (Cassell & Co., 1894), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Past and present (Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1897), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fors clavigera: letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (Aldine Book Pub., 1800), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Socialism and unsocialism (Humboldt Publ. Co., 1891), by Thomas Carlyle and Giuseppe Mazzini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temperance movement and its workers : a record of social, moral, religious and political progress (Blackie, 1893), by Peter Turner Winskill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considérations sur l'organisation sociale : appliquées à l'état civil, politique et militaire de la France et de l'Angleterre : à leurs moeurs, leur agriculture, leur commerce et leurs finances : à l'époque de la paix d'Amiens. (Chez Migneret, impr., 1802), by Jean Saint-Sardos de Montaigu Mondenard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Culture & anarchy : an essay in political and social criticism ; and, Friendship's garland : being the conversations, letters, and opinions of the late Arminius, baron von Thunder-Ten-Tronckh : collected and edited with a dedicatory letter to Adolescens Leo, esq. of "The Daily telegraph" (Macmillan, 1908), by Matthew Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of despotism (W. Hone, 1822), by Vicesimus Knox, John M'Creery, William Hone, T. Harrison, Ann Harrison, and James Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Past and present (Ward, Lock, 1910), by Thomas Carlyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• England's ideal, and other papers on social subjects (Swan Sonnenschein ;, 1992), by Edward Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay upon projects (Cassell, 1888), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian and civic economy of large towns (Printed for W. Collins, 1846), by Thomas Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian and civic economy of large towns (Printed for W. Collins, 1840), by Thomas Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remedies suggested for some of the evils which constitute "The perils of the nation". (Seeley, Burnside and Seeley, 1844), by Robert Benton Seeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Causes of commercial distress and political discontent considered, and suitable remedies suggested (C. Gilpin, 1848), by Thomas Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on an entire new state of society : comprehending an analysis of British society ... (Strange & Hetherington ..., 1835), by Robert Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economist (Printed for Knight and Lacey, 55, Paternoster-Row; and, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fors Clavigera (Volume 6 of 8): $b Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fors Clavigera (Volume 5 of 8): Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fors Clavigera (Volume 4 of 8): Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Practicable Socialism, New Series, by S. A. Barnett and S. A. Barnett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Practicable Socialism: Essays on Social Reform, by S. A. Barnett and S. A. Barnett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fors Clavigera (Volume 3 of 8): Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fors Clavigera (Volume 2 of 8): Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fors Clavigera (Volume 1 of 8): Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Matka-kuvaelmia Englannista (in Finnish), by Otto Funcke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Christopher Crayon's Recollections: The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself, by J. Ewing Ritchie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Past and Present: Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII., by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg ebook)

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