Resource Guide:
Victorian Era
Selected Call Numbers
Call numbers are the shelving locations for each item. Browsing in the following areas of the library will help you find materials for your topic.
Topic | Call Number |
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Great Britain History Victorian Era 1837-1901 | DA 550-DA 565 |
English Literature by period | PR 451-PR 469 |
English Literature 19th century, 1770/1800-1890/1900 | PN 3991-PN 5990 |
Prose by period | PR 783 |
Victorian Novel | PR 871 |
Clothing | TT 985 |
Selected Subject Headings
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.
- History – United States– Late nineteenth century, 1865-1900
- Great Britain– History–19th Century
- Poets, English– 19th Century
- England–Social life and customs– 19th Century
- History of Great Britain– The Victorian Era
- Great Britain–History–Victoria, 1837-1901
Selected Materials at the Von Canon Library
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.
Title | Call Number |
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Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries | Credo Reference |
A companion to the Victorian novel | e-Book |
Women’s poetry and religion in Victorian England | e-Book |
Victorian London’s middle-class housewife | e-Book |
The demography of Victorian England and Wales | e-Book |
Romantic stages: set and costume design in Victorian England | PN 2087 .F56 |
Victorian England aspects of English and imperial history | e-Book |
Poverty and compassion: the moral imagination of the late Victorians | HV 4086 .A3 H54 |
Victorian miniature | DA 690 .K433 C48 |
Language and class in Victorian England | PE 1085 .P45 1984 |
A prison of expectations: the family in Victorian culture | HQ 613 .M56 1985 |
Woman and the demon: the life of a Victorian myth | PR 469 .W65 A93 |
The romantic impulse in Victorian fiction | PR 878 .R73 S7 |
Science serialized representation of the sciences in 19th century… | e-Book |
Nature and the Victorian imagination | BH 221 .G73 N37 |
Sex and marriage in Victorian poetry | PR 469 .S4 J6 |
The Victorian revolution: government and society | JN 216 .S7 1973 |
Urban crime in Victorian England | HV 6944 .T6 1972 |
Matthew Arnold; a study of the aesthetic temperament in Victorian… | REMOTE PR 4023 .M3 |
The expansion of England | DA 16 .S45 1971 |
Selected Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- America: History and Life
- ArchiveGrid
- Bridgeman Art Library
- http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://camio.oclc.org/
- Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction
- Credo Reference
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- HighWire Press
- Humanities International Complete
- JSTOR
- Literature Resources from Gale
- MasterFILE Premier
- http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/mlaib?accountid=28732
- National Gallery Collection
- http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://SUBDOMAIN.NaxosMusicLibrary.com
- OAISter
- http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.oed.com/
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
- Religion and Philosophy Collection
- Scribner Writers Online
- Twayne Authors Online
- http://southernvirginia.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
- Women’s Studies International
Selected Journals and Magazines
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.
- Victorian Newsletter
- Victorian Poetry
- Victorian Studies
- Victorian Institute Journal
- Nineteenth Century Gender Studies
- Nineteenth-Century Literature
- English Literary History
- English Historical Review
- British Heritage
Selected Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- Victorian Web Online
- Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online
- The Victorian Dictionary
- BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History
- Victorian Voices: A Topical Treasury of Victorian Magazine Articles
- Victorian Britain
- World History Sources
- The Imperial Archive
- Extracts from Queen Victoria’s Diaries
- C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
- Scholarly Resources for Victorian Research
- British History Online
- The Carlyle Letters Online
- Online Lit. Criticism British 19th Century
- Victorian Era Maps of Great Britain
- Digitizing “Chinese Englishmen:” Representations of race and empire in the nineteenth century
- Historical Atlas and Gazetteer of Europe from Year 1 to 2000