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• Dora Thorne, by Charlotte M. Brame (Gutenberg text)
• Dora Thorne (credited to "Bertha M. Clay" pseudonym on cover, but not on title page; Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Charlotte M. Brame (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• It Never Can Happen Again (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1909), by William De Morgan
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Widow Barnaby (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1839), by Frances Milton Trollope
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text
• The Career of Katherine Bush (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Elinor Glyn, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Point Counter Point (New York: Literary Guild of America, 1928), by Aldous Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text and HTML)

• The Freaks of Mayfair (London et al.: T. N. Foulis, 1916), by E. F. Benson, illust. by George Plank
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Psmith in the City, by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Robert Orange: Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange, and a Sequel to The School for Saints (London: T. F. Unwin, 1900), by John Oliver Hobbes (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Heartsease, or The Brother's Wife, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Inimitable Jeeves (London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1923), by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Memoirs of a Coxcomb (London: The Fortune Press, ca. 1926), by John Cleland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belchamber (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: A. Conctable and Co., 1905), by Howard Overing Sturgis
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Castle of Tynemouth: A Tale (2 volumes; London: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, et al., 1806), by Jane Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Castle of Tynemouth: A Tale (second edition, 2 volumes; Newcastle Upon Tyne: Printed by E. Mackenzie Jr., 1830), by Jane Harvey (PDF at Chawton House Library)

• At the Court of the Maharaja: A Story of Adventure (New York: American News Co., c1906), by Louis Tracy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Belchamber (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: A. Conctable and Co., 1905), by Howard Overing Sturgis
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Beau Brocade (popular edition; London: Greening and Co., 1912), by Baroness Orczy, illust. by H. M. Brock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Children of the Abbey (based on single-volume 1877 Philadelphia edition), by Regina Maria Roche (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Children of the Abbey: A Tale (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1876), by Regina Maria Roche, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beechcroft at Rockstone, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Castle Builders (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dynevor Terrace, or, The Clue of Life, by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
• Lady Hester: or, Ursula's Narrative, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Long Vacation, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

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• The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2006), by Brent Alan Shannon (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• The Poor in England, 1700-1850: An Economy of Makeshifts (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), ed. by Steven King and Alannah Tomkins (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• The Great Army of London Poor: Sketches of Life and Character in a Thames-Side District (1882), by Thomas Wright (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Horrible London (from an 1889 edition; see also How the Poor Live), by George R. Sims (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• How the Poor Live (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883; see also Horrible London), by George R. Sims, illust. by Frederick Barnard (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Pinch of Poverty: Sufferings and Heroism of the London Poor (London: Isbister and Company, 1892), by Thomas Wright (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Ragged London in 1861 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861), by John Hollingshead (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)
• London Shadows: A Glance at the "Homes" of the Thousands (London: George Routledge and Co., 1854), by George Godwin (illustrated HTML and victorianlondon.org)

• The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by John Marriott (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• London Shadows: A Glance at the "Homes" of the Thousands (London: George Routledge and Co., 1854), by George Godwin (illustrated HTML and victorianlondon.org)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts and Tongues; With An Answer to the Objections Against This Way of Education (London: Printed by J. D. to be sold by T. Parkhurst, 1673), by Bathsua Makin (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Letters to Our Working Party (New York: E. and J.B. Young and Co., n.d.), by Evelyn Whitaker (PDF and text with commentary at evelynwhitakerlibrary.org)

• Improvements in Education, As It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community (London: Darton and Harvey, 1803), by Joseph Lancaster (multiple formats at Google)

• Brownsmith's Boy, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Condition of the Working Class in England, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England, by Arnold Toynbee (text at McMaster)

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