Bibliography of the Victorian era

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Works about the United Kingdom and British Empire during the reign of Queen Victoria.

## Contents

* 1 References
* 2 General
* 3 Daily life and culture
* 4 Literature
* 5 Politics
* 6 Religion
* 7 Crime and punishment
* 8 Historiography
* 9 Primary sources

## References

* Adams, James Eli et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Victorian era (4 vol, Groiler 2003); online vol 1-2-3-4; comprehensive coverage in 500 articles by 200 experts

* Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, eds. The encyclopedia of the Victorian world: a reader's companion to the people, places, events, and everyday life of the Victorian era (Henry Holt, 1996) online

* Hughes, William. Key Concepts in Victorian Studies (Edinburgh University Press; 2023), covers culture, literature and politics.

* Mitchell, Sally.. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1990), not online
* Plunkett, John, ed (2012). Victorian Literature: A Sourcebook. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230551756.

## General

* Bailey, Peter. Leisure and class in Victorian England: Rational recreation and the contest for control, 1830–1885 (Routledge, 2014).
* Best, Geoffrey. Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851–1875 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971)
* Bourne, Kenneth. The foreign policy of Victorian England, 1830–1902 (1970) online, survey plus primary documents
* Briggs, Asa. The Age of Improvement 1783–1867 (1979), Wide-ranging older survey emphasizing the reforms. online
* Cevasco, G. A. ed. The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture (1993) 736pp; short articles by experts
* Chadwick, Owen. The Victorian Church (2 vol 1966), covers all denominations online
* Clark, G. Kitson The making of Victorian England (1963). online
* Ensor, R. C. K. England, 1870–1914 (1936) online influential scholarly survey
* Gregg, Pauline. A Social and Economic History of Britain: 1760–1950 (1950) online
* Harrison, J.F.C. Early Victorian Britain 1832–1851 (Fontana, 1979).
* Harrison, J.F.C. Late Victorian Britain 1875–1901 (Routledge, 2013).
* Heilmann, Ann, and Mark Llewellyn, eds. Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999–2009 (Palgrave Macmillan; 2011) 323 pages; looks at recent literary & cinematic, interest in the Victorian era, including magic, sexuality, theme parks, and the postcolonial
* Hilton, Boyd. A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783–1846 (New Oxford History of England. 2006); in-depth scholarly survey, 784pp.
* Hobsbawm, Eric (1997). The Age of Capital, 1848–1875. London: Abacus.
* McCord, Norman and Bill Purdue. British History, 1815–1914 (2nd ed. 2007), 612 pp online, university textbook
* Paul, Herbert. History of Modern England, 1904–6 (5 vols) online free
* Perkin, Harold. The Origins of Modern English Society: 1780–1880 (1969) online
* Hoppen, K. Theodore. The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846–1886 (New Oxford History of England) (2000), comprehensive scholarly history excerpt and text search
* Roberts, Clayton and David F. Roberts. A History of England, Volume 2: 1688 to the present (2013) university textbook; 1985 edition online
* Somervell, D. C. English thought in the nineteenth century (1929) online
* Steinbach, Susie L. Understanding the Victorians: Politics, Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2012) excerpt and text search
* Swisher, Clarice, ed. Victorian England (2000) 20 excerpts from leading primary and secondary sources regarding literary, cultural, technical, political, and social themes. online free
* Woodward, E. L. The Age of Reform: 1815–1870 (1954) comprehensive scholarly survey online

## Daily life and culture

* Aston, Jennifer, Amanda Capern, and Briony McDonagh. "More than bricks and mortar: female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England." Urban History 46.4 (2019): online
* Biscoff, Christopher "Teaching Britain: Elementary Teachers and the state of the everyday (1846-1906)" (2019) ISBN 978-0198833352 Discusses the training, careers, experiences and views of teachers in England and Scotland.
* Flanders, Judith. Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England. W.W. Norton & Company: 2004. ISBN 0-393-05209-5.
* Gold, Michael. "History through Literary Imagination: Portrayals of Worker Representation and Collective Action in Condition-of-England Novels, c.1830–1855" Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, (2025) Vol. 46: 1-51. online

* Hellerstein, Erna H.; Hume, Leslie P.; Offen, Karen M., eds (1981). Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women’s Lives in 19th Century England, France, and the United States. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804710886.
* Houghton, Walter E. (1957). The Victorian frame of mind, 1830–1870. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-300-00122-8.
* May, Trevor (1994) (in EN). The Victorian Schoolroom. Great Britain: Shire Publications. Short book covering various aspects of, mainly, state-funded education in England and Wales. Situation in Scotland and Ireland is only touched on.
* Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. Greenwood Press: 1996. ISBN 0-313-29467-4.
* O'Gorman, Francis, ed. The Cambridge companion to Victorian culture (2010)
* Roberts, Adam Charles, ed. Victorian culture and society: the essential glossary (2003).
* Thompson, F. M. L. Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830–1900 (1988) Strong on family, marriage, childhood, houses, and play.
* Weiler, Peter. The New Liberalism: Liberal Social Theory in Great Britain, 1889–1914 (Routledge, 2016).
* Wilson, A. N. The Victorians. Arrow Books: 2002. ISBN 0-09-945186-7
* Young, Gerard Mackworth, ed. Early Victorian England 1830-1865 (2 vol 1934) scholarly surveys of cultural history. vol 2 online

## Literature

* Adams, James Eli. A History of Victorian Literature (Wiley, 2011).
* Altick, Richard Daniel. Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature. (1974) online free
* Felluga, Dino Franco, et al. The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (2015).
* Flint, Kay. The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2014).
* Horsman, Alan. The Victorian Novel (Oxford History of English Literature, 1991)
* Purchase, Sean. Key Concepts in Victorian Literature (2006)

## Politics

* Aydelotte, William O. “Parties and Issues in Early Victorian England.” Journal of British Studies, 5#2 1966, pp. 95–114. online
* Boyd, Kelly and Rohan McWilliam, eds. The Victorian Studies Reader (2007) 467pp; articles and excerpts by scholars excerpts and text search
* Bright, J. Franck. A History of England. Period 4: Growth of Democracy: Victoria 1837–1880 (1902) online 608pp; highly detailed older political narrative
* A History of England: Period V. Imperial Reaction, Victoria, 1880‒1901 (1904) online
* Brock, M. G. "Politics at the Accession of Queen Victoria" History Today (1953) 3#5 pp 329–338 online.
* Brown, David, Robert Crowcroft, and Gordon Pentland, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800–2000 (2018) excerpt
* Burton, Antoinette, ed. Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader. Palgrave Macmillan: 2001. ISBN 0-312-29335-6
* Marriott, J. A. R. England Since Waterloo (1913); focus on politics and diplomacy; online
* Martin, Howard.Britain in the 19th Century (Challenging History series, 2000) 409pp; textbook; emphasizing politics, diplomacy and use of primary sources
* Trevelyan, G. M. British History in the Nineteenth Century and After (1782–1901) (1922). online very well written scholarly survey
* Walpole, Spencer. A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815 (6 vol. 1878–86), very well written political narrative to 1855; online
* Walpole, Spencer. History of Twenty-Five Years (4 vol. 1904–1908) covers 1856–1880; online
* Young, G. M. "Mid-Victorianism" History Today (1951) 1#1 online.

## Religion

* Armstrong, Anthony. The Church of England, The Methodists and Society, 1700 –1850 (1973).
* Aronsfeld, Caesar C. "German Jews in Victorian England." The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 7.1 (1962): 312-329.
* Bebbington, David W. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (Routledge, 2003) online
* Beck, George A. The English Catholics 1850-1950 (1950) online
* Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians (1976). online
* Brown, Stewart J. Providence and Empire: Religion, politics and society in the United Kingdom. 1815–1914 (Routledge, 2014) online
* Chadwick, Owen, The Victorian Church: Vol 1 1829–1859 (1966); Victorian Church: Part two 1860–1901 (1979); a major scholarly survey; vol 1 online also see online vol 2
* Clark, G. Kitson.  The Making of Victorian England (1962) pp. 147–205.
* Davies, Rupert E. et al. A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain (3 vol. Wipf & Stock, 2017). online
* Flindall, R.P. The Church of England 1815–1948: A documentary history (1972).
* Gilbert, Alan C. Religion and Society in Industrial England: Church, Chapel and Social Change, 1740 ––1914 (Longman, 1976).
* Hopkins, Mark. Nonconformity's romantic generation: evangelical and liberal theologies in Victorian England (Wipf and Stock, 2007).
* Hylson-Smith, Kenneth. The churches in England from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II (1996).
* Scotland, Nigel. "Evangelicals, Anglicans and Ritualism in Victorian England." Churchman 111.3 (1997): 249-265. online
* Stiles, Andrina. Religion, society and reform, 1800-1914 (1995) online
* Urdank, Albion M. Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 (U of California Press, 1990) online
* Wolff, Robert Lee. Gains and losses: novels of faith and doubt in Victorian England (1977) online
* Woodward, Llewellyn. The Age of Reform, 1815-1870 (1962) pp. 502–528. online
* Horace Mann (1854). Census of Great Britain, 1851: Religious Worship in England and Wales. Ge. Routledge. https://archive.org/details/censusofgreatbri00grea.

## Crime and punishment

* Auerbach, Sascha (2015). "'Beyond the pale of mercy': Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England". Law and History Review 33 (3): 621–663. doi:10.1017/S0738248015000280. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/file/753944/1/LHR - PCM-4-final-LHR formatted.pdf.
* Bailey, Victor. Policing and punishment in nineteenth century Britain (2015).
* Churchill, David. Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City (Oxford UP, 2018)
* Emsley, Clive. Crime and society in England: 1750–1900 (2013).
* Emsley, Clive. "Crime in 19th Century Britain." History Today 38 (1988): 40+
* Emsley, Clive. The English Police: A Political and Social History (2nd ed. 1996) also published as The Great British Bobby: A History of British Policing from the 18th Century to the Present (2010)excerpt
* Fox, Lionel W. (1998). The English Prison and Borstal Systems. Psychology Press. p. 46. ISBN 9780415177382. https://books.google.com/books?id=Bl6Tk5ysFQwC&pg=PA46.
* Gatrell, V. A. C. "Crime, authority and the policeman-state." in E.M.L. Thompson, ed., The Cambridge social history of Britain 1750-1950: Volume 3 (1990). 3:243-310
* Hay, Douglas. "Crime and justice in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century England." Crime and Justice 2 (1980): 45–84. online
* Kilday, Anne-Marie. "Women and crime." Women's History, Britain 1700–1850 ed. Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, (Routledge, 2004) pp. 186–205.
* May, Margaret. "Innocence and experience: the evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-nineteenth century." Victorian Studies 17.1 (1973): 7–29. online
* Radzinowicz, Leon. A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750 (5 vol. 1948–1976)
* Radzinowicz, Leon and Roger Hood The Emergence of Penal Policy in Victorian and Edwardian England (1990)
* Shore, Heather (2000). "The Idea of Juvenile Crime in 19th Century England". History Today 50 (6).
* Shore, Heather. "Crime, policing and punishment." in Chris Williams, ed., A companion to nineteenth-century Britain (2007): 381–395. excerpt
* Storch, R. D. (1980). "Crime And Justice in 19th-Century England". History Today 30: 32–37.
* Taylor, James (2018). "White-collar crime and the law in nineteenth-century Britain". Business History 60 (3): 343–360. doi:10.1080/00076791.2017.1339691. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/86618/1/White_Collar_Crime_AAM.pdf.
* Tobias, J. J. Crime and Industrial Society in the Nineteenth Century (1967) .
* Tobias, J.J. ed, Nineteenth-century crime: prevention and punishment (1972) primary sources.
* Taylor, Howard. "Rationing crime: the political economy of criminal statistics since the 1850s." Economic history review (1998) 51#3 569–590. online

## Historiography

* Burton, Antoinette (2012). "Victorian History: Some Experiments with Syllabi". Victorian Studies 54 (2). doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.54.2.305.
* Elton, G. R. Modern Historians on British History 1485–1945: A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969 (1969), annotated guide to 1000 history books on every major topic, plus book reviews and major scholarly articles. online
* Gooch, Brison D. (1973). "Recent Literature on Queen Victoria's Little Wars". Victorian Studies 17 (2): 217–224.
* Goodlad, Lauren M. E. (2000). "'A Middle Class Cut into Two': Historiography and Victorian National Character". ELH 67 (1): 143–178. doi:10.1353/elh.2000.0003.
* Homans, Margaret, and Adrienne Munich, eds. Remaking Queen Victoria (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
* Kent, Christopher (1996). "Victorian social history: post-Thompson, post-Foucault, postmodern". Victorian Studies 1996 (1): 97–133.
* Mays, Kelly J (2011). "Looking backward, looking forward: the Victorians in the rear-view mirror of future history". Victorian Studies 53 (3): 445. doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.53.3.445.
* Moore, D. C. "In Search of a New Past: 1820 – 1870," in Richard Schlatter, ed., Recent Views on British History: Essays on Historical Writing since 1966 (Rutgers UP, 1984)
* Parry, J. P. (1983). "The State of Victorian Political History". Historical Journal 26 (2): 469–484. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00024201.
* Sandiford, Keith A. P. (1981). "The Victorians at play: Problems in historiographical methodology". Journal of Social History 1981 (2): 271–288. doi:10.1353/jsh/15.2.271.
* Stansky, Peter. "British History: 1870 – 1914," in Richard Schlatter, ed., Recent Views on British History: Essays on Historical Writing since 1966 (Rutgers UP, 1984)
* Taylor, Miles (2020). "The Bicentenary of Queen Victoria". Journal of British Studies 59 (1): 121–135. doi:10.1017/jbr.2019.245. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2019.245.
* Vernon, James (2005). "Historians and the Victorian Studies Question". Victorian Studies 47 (2). doi:10.2979/VIC.2005.47.2.272.
* Webb, R. K. Modern England: from the 18th century to the present (1968) online widely recommended university textbook

## Primary sources

* Black, E.C. ed. British politics in the nineteenth century (1969) online
* Bourne, Kenneth. The foreign policy of Victorian England, 1830–1902 (Oxford UP, 1970), contains a short narrative history and 147 "Selected documents" on pp 195–504. online
* Handcock, W.D. and G.M. Young, eds. English Historical Documents, Vol. XII(1): 1833–1874
* Handcock, W.D. ed. English Historical Documents, 1874-1914 (1977) online

* English Historical Documents 1815-1870 (1964) online

* Hicks, Geoff, et al. eds. Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852–1878 (2013), 550 documents excerpt
* Temperley, Harold and L.M. Penson, eds. Foundations of British Foreign Policy: From Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902) (1938), of primary sources online

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