Recommended Books

The following are all books that I have read and enjoyed, and all currently in print. If you are interested in the Victorian era, or Victorian London in particular, then I would heartily recommend them! For e-texts of Victorian originals available on this site, see the Bibliography.

Victorian History and Culture

The Victorian House
 by Judith Flanders
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The Victorian Internet 
 by Tom Standage 
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JABEZ
 by David McKie
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The Victorians,
 by A.N.Wilson
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Victorian Painting,
 by Lionel Lambourne 
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Victorian London Social History

Victorian Babylon, 
 by Lynda Nead
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Inventing the Victorians,
 by Matthew Sweet
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London : A Social History,
 by Roy Porter
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City of Dreadful Delight,
 by Judith Walkowitz
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London : 1900,
 by Jonathan Schneer
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The Victorian Underworld,
 by Donald Thomas
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Emperors of Dreams,
 by Mike Jay
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London under London : a subterranean guide
 by Richard Trench and Ellis Hillman
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Underground to Everywhere
 by Stephen Halliday
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The Great Stink of London
 by Stephen Halliday
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19th C. Books (non-fiction)

Dickens Dictionary of London, 1888,
 by Charles Dickens, Jr.
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Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs,
 by John Thomson & Adolphe Smith
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Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management,
 by Isabella Beeton
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London : A Pilgrimage,
 by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré
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Biography and Reference

Dickens,
 biography by Peter Ackroyd
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The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens,
 ed. Paul Schlicke
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The London Encyclopaedia,
 ed. Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert
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