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• Irish Rebels in English Prisons: A Record of Prison Life (New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1899), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Workhouses and Women's Work: Reprinted from The Church of England Monthly Review; Also, a Paper on the Condition of Workhouses, Read in the Social Economy Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Birmingham, October, 1857 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858), by Louisa Twining
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Recollections of Life and Work: Being the Autobiography of Louisa Twining (London: E. Arnold, 1893), by Louisa Twining
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

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

• Punishment, Prison and the Public: An Assessment of Penal Reform in Twentieth Century England by an Armchair Penologist (Hamlyn Lectures, #23; London: Stevens and Sons, 1971), by Rupert Cross (PDF in the UK)

• Maud Melville's Marriage: A Story of the Seventeenth Century (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1893), by Evelyn Everett-Green
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some illustrations missing from this copy
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The History and Antiquities of The Tower of London, With Memoirs of Royal and Distinguished Persons, Deduced From Records, State-Papers, and Manuscripts, and From Other Original and Authentic Sources (2 volumes; London: T. Cadell, 1821-1825), by John Bayley
  • Part I (may be mislabeled as Volume II): page images at Ohio Memory
  • Part II (may be mislabeled as Volume I): page images at Ohio Memory
• An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London, From the Reign of King Edward the Second, Unto King Richard the Third, of All the Parliaments Holden in Each Kings Reign, and the Several Acts in Every Parliament; Together With the Names and Titles of All the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons, Summoned To Every of the Said Parliaments (originally collected by Cotton, revised by Prynne; London: Printed for W. Leake, 1657), ed. by Robert Cotton and William Prynne, contrib. by Robert Bowyer and William Morrell
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• An Historical Description of the Tower of London, and its Curiosities (London: T. Carnan, 1784) (page images at HathiTrust)

• "My Merry Rockhurst" (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Agnes Castle and Egerton Castle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Authorised Guide to the Tower of London (revised edition; London: Printed for HMSO by Harrison and Sons, 1904, reprinted 1907), by W. J. Loftie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Visit to the Tower : Being an Account of Several Birds, and Beasts (York: Printed by J. Kendrew, 1810) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada (c2012), by Ted McCoy (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps: Prisoners' Testimonies and Satellite Photographs (second edition; Washington, DC: U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, c2012), by David R. Hawk (PDF at hrnk.org)

• An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North (London: A. M. Philpot Ltd., 1926), by S. A. Mal'sagov, trans. by F. H. Lyon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)