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• Working class -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History
• Working class -- Books and reading -- History -- 19th century
• Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

• Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

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

• Life and Struggles of William Lovett, in His Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge, and Freedom (2 volumes in different editions; 1920), by William Lovett, contrib. by R. H. Tawney
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Carbonels, by Charlotte M. Yonge (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)

• Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), by George Jacob Holyoake (HTML in the UK)

• For Their Own Good: The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lucinda McCray Beier (PDF at Ohio State)

• The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (second edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard D. Altick, contrib. by Jonathan Rose (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust