PRIMARY SOURCES

Victorian Intellectual and Cultural Texts
Bagehot, Walter. The English Constitution (1867)
Beeton, Isabella Mary. The Book of Household Management (1861)
Cobbe, Frances Power. Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors (1869)  Hypertext version
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species (1859)  Hypertext version
Eigner, Edwin M. and George J. Worth (eds.). Victorian Criticism of the Novel (1986)
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)  E-text version
The Germ. A Hypermedia Critical Edition
Kinglake, Alexander William. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress down to the Death of
       Lord Raglan (1863)
Martineau, Harriet. British Rule in India: A Historical Sketch (1857)
Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor (1861)
Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism (1862).
Mulock, Dinah [Craik].  A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858).  Hypertext version.
Newman, John Henry. The Idea of a University (1852)
Nightingale, Florence. Writings
Norton, Caroline. English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (1854) Hypertext version
Porter, George R. The Progress of the Nation (1851)
Smiles, Samuel. Self-Help (1859)
Roundell, C. S. England and her Subject Races, with special reference to Jamaica (1866)
Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies (1865)
Steel, Flora Annie Webster.The Modern Marriage Market (1898).  Hypertext version.

CRITICAL STUDIES
Altick, Richard. The English Common Reader.
---. Victorian People and Ideas.
---. Victorian Studies in Scarlet.
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.
Auerbach, Nina. Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth.
Beer, Gillian. Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and 19th Century Fiction.
Bratton, J[acqueline] S. The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction.
Briggs, Asa. Victorian People.
---. The Age of Improvement.
Brown, Penny. The Captured World: The Child and Childhood in 19th-Century Women's Writing.
Buckley, Jerome. The Victorian Temper.
Burnett, John. Plenty and Want: A Social History of Food in England from 1815 to the Present Day.
Calder, Jenni. Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction.
Clark, G. Kitson. The Making of Victorian England.
Cohen, Morton. Lewis Carroll: A Biography.
Cohen, Paula Marantz. The Daughter's Dilemma: Family Process and the 19th Century Domestic Novel.
Davidoff, Leonore and Catherine Hall. Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850.
DeLamotte, Eugenia. Perils in the Night: A Feminist Study of 19th Century Gothic.
Delmont, Sara, ed. The Nineteenth-Century Woman: Her Cultural and Physical World.
Elton, Oliver. Survey of English Literature, 1830-1880.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900, 3rd ed. (Pearson Longman, 2004).
Engels, Frederich. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.
Gay, Peter. The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud.
Gorham, Deborah. The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal.
Gregg, Pauline. Modern Britain: A Social and Economic History Since 1760.
Haight, Peter. The Victorian Reader.
Halevy, Elie. History of the English People, vols 3 & 4.
Hammond, Barbara. The Age of the Chartists.
Heller, Tamar. Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic.
Horn, Pamela. Children's Work and Welfare, 1780-1880.
Houghton, Walter. The Victorian Frame of Mind.
House, Humphrey. The Dickens World.
Hughes, Winifred. The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s.
James, Louis. Fiction for the Working Class.
Kincaid, James. Child-Loving: The Erotic Child in Victorian Literature.
Kotzin, Michael C. Dickens and the Fairy Tale. (1972).
Knight, Stephen. Crime Fiction, 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity (Palgrave, 2004).
Langland, Elizabeth. Nobody's Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture.
Leach, Karoline.  In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll.
Lerner, Laurnce. Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century.
Levine, George. Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction, 1988.
Levy, Anita. Other Women: The Writing of Race, Class, and Gender, 1832-1898.
Loeb, Anne. Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian Women.
Marcus, Stephen. The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography.
Marsh, Jan.  Christina Rossetti: A Writer's Life.
Mayhew, Henry. London Labor and the London Poor. (4 vols.)
Milbank, Alison. Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction.
Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England.
---.  The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class, and Women's Reading, 1835-1880.
Michie, Elsie. Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer.
Morgan, Marjorie. Manners, Morals and Class in England, 1774-1858.
Morris, Virginia B. Women who Kill in Victorian Fiction.
Murray, Janet, ed. Strong-Minded Women & Other Lost Voices from Nineteenth-Century England.
Newton, Judith Lowder. Women, Power and Subversions: Social Strategies in British Fiction.
Nunakawa, Jeff. The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel.
Ostrey, Elaine. Social Dreaming: Dickens and the Fairy Tale (Studies in Major Literary Authors). New York: Routledge, 2002.
Pykett, Lyn. The 'Improper' Feminine: Women's Sensation Novel and the New Women Writing.
Rance, Nicholas. Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists.
Reynolds, Kimberly. Girls Only: Gender and Popular Fiction in Britain, 1880-1910.
Schor, Esther. Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria.
Showalter, Elaine: A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing.
---. Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siécle.
Silver, Carole G. Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness. Oxford UP, 1999.
Sinfield, Alan. The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Moment.
Small, Helen. Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865.
Somervell, D.C. English Thought in the Nineteenth Century.
Stang, Richard. The Theory of the Novel in England, 1850-1870.
Stevens, Joan. Some Nineteenth-Century Novels and Their First Publication.
Stone, Harry. Dickens and the Invisible World: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Novel-Making.
Sussman, Herbert. Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art.
Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class.
Thomson, Patricia. The Victorian Heroine: A Changing Ideal.
Tillotson, Kathleen. Novels of the Eighteen-Forties.
Trodd, Andrea. Domestic Crime in the Victorian Novel.
Van, J. Don. Victorian Novels in Serial.
Vicinus, Martha, ed. Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Era.
"The Victorian Woman: A Special Issue." Victorian Studies. 15.1 (Sept. 1970).
Walvin, James. A Child's World: A Social History of English Childhood, 1800-1914.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society.
Weintraub, Stanley. Victoria: An Intimate Biography.
Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society, 1780-1950.
Young, G.M., ed. Early Victorian England. 2 vols.
---. Victorian England: Portrait of an Age.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND REFERENCE SOURCES
Allibone, Samuel Austin. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. (aka Allibone's Dictionary of Authors.)
Annual Bibliography in Victorian Studies.
Baugh, Albert C., et al. A Literary History of England.
Chambers Biographical Dictionary.
DeLaura, David, ed. Victorian Prose: A Guide to Research.
Dictionary of National Biography (DNB).
Faverty, Frederick, ed. Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research.
Ford, George, ed. Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide to Research.
Matthews, William. British Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of British Diaries Written Between 1442 and 1942.
---. British Autobiographies: An Annotated bibliography of British Autobiographies Published or Written Before 1951.
New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
MLA International Bibliography.
Palmer's Index to The [London] Times Newspaper: 1790-1905.
Poole's Index to Victorian Periodical Literature, 1802-1881.
Vann, J. Don and Rosemary T. Van Arsdel. Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. 3 vols.

SELECTED VICTORIAN PERIODICALS

Nineteenth Century
The Annual Register, or a View of the History and Politics of the Year....(annual, 1758- )
The Athenaeum (weekly, 1828-1921)
Blackwood's Magazine (monthly, 1817-1905)
Edinburgh Review (quarterly, 1802-1910)
The Examiner
Fraser's Magazine (monthly, 1830-1882)
Illustrated London News (weekly, 1842- )
The Morning Chronicle (daily, 1769-1862)
North British Review (quarterly, 1844-1871)
Punch (weekly, 1841-1983)
The Quarterly Review (quarterly, 1809-1906)
The [London] Times (daily, 1785- )
The Westminster Review (quarterly, 1824-1890)

Modern
Annual Bibliography in Victorian Studies
The Arnoldian: A Review of Mid-Victorian Culture
Browning Institute Studies: An Annual of Victorian Literary and Cultural History
The Dickensian
Dickens Quarterly
Dickens Studies Annual
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Victorian Studies
Victorian Periodicals Review
Victorian Newsletter