Primary Sources on Victorian Reading

• 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
• Henry James, "London," 1888
• Charles J. Billson, "English Novels," Westminster Review, December 1892
• Collet Dobson Collet, History of the Taxes on Knowledge, 1899