Non-Fiction
“On the Tragedies of Shakespeare” (1811)
“A Chapter on Ears” (1821)
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Selections from The Spirit of the Age (1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1822)
Selections from A Defense of Poetry (1821)
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
On Heroes and Hero Worship (1841)
“The N*gger Question” (1849)
William Dodd (1804-18??)
A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, A Factory Cripple, Written by Himself (1841)
Mary Seacole (1805-1881)
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
"The Negro Question" (1850)
The Subjection of Women (1869)
Mary Carpenter (1807-1877)
“Reformatory Schools, for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders” (1851)
Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
“English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century” (1854)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Selections from On the Origin of Species (1859)
Selections from The Descent of Man (1874)
Autobiography (1887)
Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)
“On the Interpretation of Scripture” (1860)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Selections from “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844” (1844)
Selections from “The German Ideology” (1846)
The Communist Manifesto (1848)
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Selections from Modern Painters (1843-60)
Selections from Seven Lamps of Architecture (1847)
Selections from The Stones of Venice (1851)
Selections from Unto This Last (1860)
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Selections from The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
“Cassandra” (1848)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Culture and Anarchy (1868)
Mary Smith (1822-1889)
Autobiography of Mary Smith, Schoolmistress and Nonconformist: A Fragment of a Life (1892)
Francis Power Cobbe (1822-1901)
“Wife-Torture in England” (1878)
Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897)
Autobiography (1899)
Emily Davies (1830-1921)
“Some Account of a Proposed New College for Women” (1868)
Elizabeth Oakley (1831-1900)
Autobiography (1882)
Elizabeth Johnston (1835-c.1874)
Autobiography of Ellen Johnston, "The Factory Girl" (1867)
Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)
“An Agnostic’s Reply” (1876)
William Morris (1834-1896)
“Art Under Plutocracy” (1884)
“The Society of the Future” (1887)
“How I Became A Socialist” (1894)
Eleanor Marx (1855-1898)
“The Woman Question” (1886)
Mary Kingsley (1862-1900)
Travels in West Africa (1897)