Five Great Victorian Studies Reference Sites, plus blogs

If you’re like me, you want to know all the fascinating tidbits and details about life in the Victorian Era. Well, fear not – there are plenty of great reference sites out there on the Internet. I’ve collected five useful general sites here.

1. Victorian Voices – http://www.victorianvoices.net/index.shtml The list of lists. Find articles, websites and blogs on every aspect of Victorian life from America, Gardening, and Country/Village life to Royalty, Women’s Issues, Work, and World Cultures.

2. Victorian Research – http://victorianresearch.org/ Find the libraries and other places where primary sources and archival records are housed. Also, under the heading “Discussion” there are many groups and blogs on Victorian matters.

3. The Victorian Web – http://www.victorianweb.org/ Arranged by topic in a diamond shape, the site offers information both about the UK and other nations during the Victorian era on topics including social history, political history and gender matters, philosophy, religion, science and technology, writers, artists, and theater and entertainment as well as much more.

4. Victorian London – http://www.victorianlondon.org/ The Victorian Dictionary, Lee Jackson’s website, has a wonderful archive of primary sources describing various aspects of London life during the Victorian era.

5. Victorian Literary Studies Archive – http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/ Professor Matsuoka of Nagoya University, Japan, has put together a huge collection of links on the Victorian era in London, Manchester, Knutsford, and the U.K., English Department in Japan, English department overseas, Dickens Fellowship, Victorian Studies Society, Victorian authors Dickens, Gaskell and Gissing, Victorian Websites, 19^th century authors, English literature, British Authors and American Authors.

You might also want to explore the Victorian-era information on British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/.

Blogs

I compiled the following list of blogs at random over the course of my previous searches. I have identified the blogger where I could, but I don’t know any of these folks.

BrontëBlog

The Cat’s Meat Shop (Lee Jackson)

Crime and Insanity in Victorian England (David Vaughan)

The Curious World of Victorian Collecting (Mary Addyman)

Dickens Blog (Gina Dalfonzo)

The Digital Victorianist (Bob Nicholson)

The Floating Academy: A Victorian Studies Blog

The Hoarding (Andrew Stauffer)

The Hour of Mask and Mime (Diane Magras)

Journal of Victorian Culture Online: Editors’ Blog

The Little Professor (Miriam Burstein)

Looking Glasses at Odd Corners (Amber Regis)

Charlotte Mathieson

Neo-Victorian Thoughts (Louisa Yates)

Novel Ideas: Modern Musings on the Long 19th Century (Emily K. Cody and Trey Conatser)

Novel Readings (Rohan Maitzen)

Of Victorian Interest (NAVSA)

Rag-Picking History (Paul Dobraszczyk)

Royal Holloway Victorian MA (Adam Roberts)

Romantic Circles Blog

The Salt Box (Jason Jones)

The Victorian Commons (History of House of Commons Project, 1832-68)

The Victorian Era (Geerte Koeznbasje)

Victorian Geek (Catherine Pope)

Victorian History (Bruce Rosen)

The Victorianist (“Amateur Casual”)

The Victorian Peeper (Kristan Tetens)

The Victorian Poetry Network

Wuthering Expectations

Happy researching!