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Victorian Studies - Selected Sources
Encyclopedias & General Works
English Historical Documents
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of National Biography
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A Companion to Nineteenth-century Britain
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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture
(Vic Stacks)
Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era
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The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World
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Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia
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Victorian Culture and Society: the Essential Glossary
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The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History
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Ware's Victorian dictionary of slang and phrase
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A Reference Guide for English Studies
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British Writers
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The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature
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A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture
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The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
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Victorian Poets Before 1850
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Victorian Prose Writers Before 1867
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Victorian Prose Writers After 1867
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English Fiction of the Victorian Period: 1830-1890
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Victorian Prose: A Guide to Research
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Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists.
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A Companion to the Victorian Novel
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Victorian Novelists After 1885
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Victorian Novelists Before 1885
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London, 1066-1914
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Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905
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Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Literature for the Ten Years 1975-1984
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The Victorian Novel: An Annotated Bibliography
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Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1960-1879: An Annotated Bio-bibliography
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The Arts
Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance
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Victorian Painting
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Victorian Painting
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Victorian Painters
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Victorian Glassworlds: glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880.
Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema
History and Sociology
Daily Life in Victorian England
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How to be a Victorian: a dawn-to-dusk guide to Victorian life
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Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life
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Victorian Political Culture: habits of heart and mind
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Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society.
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Late Victorian Britain, 1870-1901.
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Family ties in Victorian England
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Victorian Feminists
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Victorian Women
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Victorian Childhoods
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Victorian Cities
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That Devils Trick: hypnotism and the Victorian popular imagination
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Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion
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Victorian Cities
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That Devils Trick: hypnotism and the Victorian popular imagination
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Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion
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Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain
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Literature
Theatre in the Victorian Age
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The Madwoman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination.
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Victorian Science and Literature
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Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature
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The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature
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The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature.
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The Victorian Period: the Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830-1890
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The Pocket Guide to Victorian Writers and Poets
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Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art
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Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford
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Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction
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Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
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The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
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The Victorian Railway
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Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics
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Victorian Poetry in Context
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British Victorian Womens Periodicals: Beauty, Civilization and Poetry
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The Making of Victorian Drama
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A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth Century English Novel
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The Victorian Novel
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The Facts On File Companion to the British Short Story
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The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel
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Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel
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A Companion to the Victorian Novel
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How to Read the Victorian Novel
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The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction
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Technologies of Power in the Victorian Period: Print Culture, Human Labor, and new Modes of Critique
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Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction
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Victorian Fairy Tales
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Biographical Critical Sourcebook
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Philosophy
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-century British Philosophers.
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Internet Resources
Internet Archive
Digitized texts and all other media
Victoria Research Web
provides resources for the study of all aspects of Victorian Britain.
Victorian Web Sites (Victorian Literary Studies Archive)
Hyper-Concordance
for authors and their individual works (Victorian Literary Studies Archive)
The Victorian Web
Victorian Women Writers Project
Voice of the Shuttle English Literature: Victorian
Nines (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship)
The Nineteenth-Century English Novel: Bibliographic Resources
Victoria Research Web: Scholarly Sources for Victorian Research
Victorian Popular Culture: A Portal
The Victorian Studies Bibliography
19th Century British Pamphlets Online
Mid-Victorian imperialists: British gentleman and the empire of the mind
(Online- title search on UofT catalogue)
Youth of darkest England: working-class children at the heart of Victorian
(Online- title search on UofT catalogue)
Victorian print media: a reader
[electronic resource at UofT]
Victorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy
[electronic resource at UofT]
The Long Nineteenth Century
Victorian History.
A Vision of Britain through Time.
A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians
Evolution and Victorian Culture
Journal Databases/Indexes (UofT)
Victorian Database
1945-1999 available online
Emprie Online
Over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material from 1492 to 1969. Includes historical essays and biographies.
Pooles's Index to Periodical Literaure 1893-1938.
*also available online in 19th Century Masterfile
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Cumulative author index for Poole's Index to Periodical Literature 1802-1906
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Palmer's Index to The [London] Times, 1790-1905
London Low Life
Victorian London’s streets, gin palaces, brothels and East End slums: salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and seditious posters, the material sold London’s bustling streets gives insight into its dark underworld. Children’s chapbooks, slang dictionaries and ballads ...
Victorian Periodical Review
VPR is the only refereed journal that concentrates on the editorial and publishing history of Victorian periodicals. Its emphasis is on the importance of periodicals for an understanding of the history and culture of Victorian Britain, Ireland, and the Empire.
MLA International Bibliography
1963- available online
Historical Abstracts
1954- available online
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)
1770- also available online
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900.
*also available online*
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The Historical Index to The New York Times, 1851-1922
Historical Newspapers Online
Palmer's Full Text Online (The [London] Times), 1785-1870
The Official Index to The [London] Times, 1906-1980
The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals 1800-1900
Literature Criticism Online
Simultaneously search Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism and more.
Oxford Bibliographies
in Victorian Literature offers a reliable, up-to-date, and authoritative guide to the best literature in the field.
