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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
Great Britain History Victorian Era 1837-1901DA 550-DA 565
English Literature by periodPR 451-PR 469
English Literature 19th century, 1770/1800-1890/1900PN 3991-PN 5990
Prose by periodPR 783
Victorian NovelPR 871
ClothingTT 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
Great Victorian Lives: An Era in ObituariesCredo Reference
A companion to the Victorian novele-Book
Women’s poetry and religion in Victorian Englande-Book
Victorian London’s middle-class housewifee-Book
The demography of Victorian England and Walese-Book
Romantic stages: set and costume design in Victorian EnglandPN 2087 .F56
Victorian England aspects of English and imperial historye-Book
Poverty and compassion: the moral imagination of the late VictoriansHV 4086 .A3 H54
Victorian miniatureDA 690 .K433 C48
Language and class in Victorian EnglandPE 1085 .P45 1984
A prison of expectations: the family in Victorian cultureHQ 613 .M56 1985
Woman and the demon: the life of a Victorian mythPR 469 .W65 A93
The romantic impulse in Victorian fictionPR 878 .R73 S7
Science serialized representation of the sciences in 19th century…e-Book
Nature and the Victorian imaginationBH 221 .G73 N37
Sex and marriage in Victorian poetryPR 469 .S4 J6
The Victorian revolution: government and society JN 216 .S7 1973
Urban crime in Victorian EnglandHV 6944 .T6 1972
Matthew Arnold; a study of the aesthetic temperament in Victorian…REMOTE PR 4023 .M3
The expansion of EnglandDA 16 .S45 1971

Selected Research Databases

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

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.