ENGL 4325/5325- Victorian Literature

Provides an index to the original records of Booth’s Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London, an extensive study of working class life undertaken between 1886 and 1903, which is archived at the London School of Economics and Political Science library. Also contains a great deal of digitized material, including police notebooks and the Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, in which maps of London were color-coded to indicate the poverty level and social class in different area.

An excellent bibliography of critical studies of Dickens' work and many useful links to research websites. From the University of California.

From industrialisation to slavery, Dr Simon Avery looks at the 19th century social and political issues that fed into Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry.

Liza Picard considers how the development of technology and industry affected all areas of 19th-century life and work.