Primary Sources on Victorian Reading
From Commonplace Book
- William Hazlitt, "The Periodical Press," Edinburgh Review, May 1823
- William Newmarch, [Unnamed article about novel reading], Westminster Review, June 1844
- Angus B. Reach, "The Coffee Houses of London," New Parley Library, 1844
- Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Young Ladies' Reader; Or, Extracts from Modern Authors, adapted for Educational or Family Use, 1845
- Fanny Mayne, "The Literature of the Working Classes," Englishwoman's Magazine, and Christian Mother's Miscellany, October 1850
- Samuel Phillips, "The Literature of the Rail," The Times, 9 August 1851
- "What is the Harm of Novel-Reading?", Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, October 1855
- Wilkie Collins, "The Unknown Public," Household Words, 21 August 1858
- Margaret Oliphant, "The Byways of Literature: Reading for the Million," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, August 1858
- Henry Mansel, "Sensation Novels," Quarterly Review, April 1863
- Geraldine Jewsbury, Review of The Moonstone, The Athenaeum, 25 July 1868
- Thomas Cooper, The Life of Thomas Cooper, Written by Himself, 1872
- working-class autodidact autobiography
- George Moore, "A New Censorship of Literature," Pall Mall Gazette, December 1884
- Charlotte Yonge, What Books to Lend and What to Give, 1884
- Henry James, "London," 1888
- Charles J. Billson, "English Novels," Westminster Review, December 1892
- Collet Dobson Collet, History of the Taxes on Knowledge, 1899
- Thomas Arnold, sermon about serial fiction in Nov. 1839 (Christian Life, Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps: Sermons, Preached Mostly in the Chapel of Rugby School. London: B. Fellowes, 1845)
