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
• 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
• Thomas Cooper, The Life of Thomas Cooper, Written by Himself, 1872
  • working-class autodidact autobiography
• Charles J. Billson, "English Novels," Westminster Review, December 1892
• Collet Dobson Collet, History of the Taxes on Knowledge, 1899