Resource Guide:
The Victorian Novel

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• The British Library
• At the Circulating Library
• The Victorian Studies Bibliography
• Victorian Women Writers Project
• BRANCH
• The British Literature Wiki

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- 19th century
• Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Eliot, George, 1819-1880
• Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
• Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• MLA
• Wiley Online Library

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Studies in the Novel
• Victorian Studies
• Journal of Narrative Theory
• Victorians Institute Journal
• Studies in English Literature
• Journal of Victorian Culture

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.