Print Resources

[dante_s_hell]

Greetings!

There are many books out there on the Victorian Era. If you know a book that would be a great resource to writers, please post the title, the author, and the ISBN number (if possible).

I'll go first:

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist--the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England by Daniel Pool

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Victorian Babylon : people, streets, and images in nineteenth-century London by Lynda Nead
ISBN 0300085052

Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
by Seth Koven
ISBN 0691128006

Curiosities of London life; or, Phases, physiological and social, of the great metropolis by Charles Manby Smith

[tabby_stardust]

The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas.

Thieves, murderers, beggars, prostitutes, con men. Covers pretty much every aspect of the criminal side of Victorian England.

Although as far as I can remember it concentrates more on the early/mid Victorian era... But still. Very intriguing stuff.

[love_bug_54]

Daily Life in Victorian England
by Sally Mitchell
ISBN 0313294674

This is a great resource about all aspects of, well, daily life in Victorian England, covering all classes and how things changed over the century.

[gaedhal]

Always remember that there's a big difference between
the early Victorian Era and the Late or Gaslight Era
(usually called the Gilded Age in the U.S.). The later
Victorians were closer to the Edwardians in a lot of
ways and it was an age of great interest in science,
inventions, and progressive politics -- women were a
much greater force than in earlier decades.

Sometimes we tend to look at "Victorian" as being a
monolith -- but it would be like treating the 1930's
through the 1990's as being the same in thought,
dress, attitude, and culture.

[dante_s_hell]

Oh, yes, Queen Victoria had the longest reign in English history (Queen Elizabeth II will probably surpass it, though). The Victorian Era covers quite a long period of time. We'll just have to be sure to peruse these resources with a critical eye and if we can find books that divide the era, that would be great, too.

[inamac]

H.R.F. Keating's Sherlock Holmes: The Man and his World ISBN 0684162695 is described as a 'novel' but is in fact an outline of the Holmes stories, illustrated by contemporary pictures of the fashions, locations and everyday things that are mentioned in the stories. Useful as it relates to the canon chronology from mid-Victorian to early Edwardian.