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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 progress of the working classes in the last half century / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1884), by Robert Giffen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-revolutionary tracts (J. Masters, 1848), by Sosthenes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and struggles of William Lovett, in his pursuit of bread, knowledge, and freedom ; with some short account of the different associations he belonged to, and of the opinions he entertained (Trübner, 1876), by William Lovett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A proposal for an agrarian endowment of the population, in lieu of the existing poor law and corn law : in a letter to His Grace the Duke of Richmond, K.G. (John Miland, 1846), by David Owen Edwards and Charles Gordon-Lennox Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the factory movement : from the year 1802, to the enactment of the ten hours' bill in 1847 (Simkin, Marshall, and Co., 1857), by Samuel Kydd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report from the Select Committee on Labourers Wages. (s.n.], 1824), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Select Committee on Labourers Wages (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dismal England (Walter Scott, 1901), by Robert Blatchford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Change in the Village, by George Sturt (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Carbonels, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Lower class (Caxton, 1938), by George Youell and Anton Otto Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes. (Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1885), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Housing of the working classes (C. Tinling, 1901), by Liverpool (England). Housing Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Sixty years of an agitator's life (T. Fisher Unwin, 1900), by George Jacob Holyoake (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• Reading for moral progress : 19th century institutions promoting social change (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997), by Donald G. Davis, John Mark Tucker, David M. Hovde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Conference on Faith and History (1994 : Messiah College) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charles Dickens as a Reader, by Charles Kent (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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
• The history of the Catnach Press : at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London (C. Hindley [the younger], 1886), by Charles Hindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, by Agnes Giberne (Gutenberg ebook)