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Welcome to research on the Victorian era

Databases to use

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Books to use

Uneven developments : the ideological work of gender in mid-Victorian England
	Call #: 305.309 POO Poovey, Mary.
	Series: Women in culture and society
	Published 1988
	Interest Level: Adult

Women of Victorian England
	Call #: 305.4 SWI Swisher, Clarice, 1933-
	Series: Women in history
	Published 2005
	Reading Level: 7.5 Interest Level: 5-8

Inside the Victorian home : a portrait of domestic life in Victorian England
	Call #: 306.0942 FLA Flanders, Judith.
	Published 2004
	Interest Level: Adult

The hero's journey
	Call #: 809 HER edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby.
	Series: Bloom's literary themes
	Published 2009
	Interest Level: Young Adult

The Victorian novel.
	Call #: 820.9 BLO Bloom, Harold, ed.
	Series: Bloom's Period Studies
	Published 2004

The Victorian Age in literature.
	Call #: 820.9 CHE Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
	Series: Oxford paperbacks university series, opus 8
	Published 1966

The Victorians : English literature in its historical, cultural, and social contexts.
	Call #: 820.9 CRU Cruttenden, Aidan
	Series: Backgrounds to English Literature
	Published 2003

The Cambridge companion to Victorian women's writing
	Call #: 820.992 PET edited by Linda H. Peterson.
	Series: Cambridge companions to literature
	Published 2015

How to be a Victorian : a dawn-to-dusk guide to Victorian life
	Call #: 941.08 GOO Goodman, Ruth, 1963-
	Published 2014
	Interest Level: Adult

Victorian England.
	Call #: 941.081 ASH Ashby, Ruth.
	Series: Cultures of the Past
	Published 2003

This Victorian Life : Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-centrury culture, cooking, fashion, and technology
	Call #: 941.081 CHR Sarah A Chrisman.

The Victorian Treasury A Collection of fascination facts and insights about the Victorian Era
	Call #: 941.081 HAW Luncinda Hawksley
	Published 2015

Victorian England
	Call #: 942.081 STE Stewart, Gail B. (Gail Barbara), 1949-
	Series: Understanding world history
	Published 2014
	Interest Level: Young Adult

Pride and prejudice
	Call #: FIC AUS Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
	Series: Scholastic classics
	Published 2007
	Interest Level: Young Adult

The Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life : a tour through history from ancient times to the present.
	Call #: REF 390 GRE Salisbury, Joyce E., ed.
	Series: The Ancient World
	Published 2004

Crisis of faith
	Call #: REF 801 EVA editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.
	Series: Critical insights
	Published 2013
	Interest Level: Adult

Crisis of faith
	editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.
	Series: Critical insights
	Published 2013
	Interest Level: Adult

Websites and other sources (mental illness)

The Victorian Web

Victorian Era – Mental Illness

Print Books: Women of Victorian England, Uneven Developments, Literature in our Time Vol. 2. – Jane Eyre.

Databases: (also try search terms in other databases: psychiatry, insanity, madmen puerperal insanity)

Gale World – History in Context:

Ainsley, Jill Newton. "'Some mysterious agency': Women, Violent Crime, and the Insanity Acquittal in the Victorian Courtroom." Canadian Journal of History, vol. 35, no. 1, 2000, p. 37. World History in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A63583860/WHIC?u=broo69771&xid=4dbb2867. Accessed 9 Mar. 2017.

Gale Student Resources in Context

Bashford, Alison. "Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain." Victorian Studies, vol. 49, no. 2, 2007, p. 359+. Student Resources in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A166481174/SUIC?u=broo69771&xid=6dc48b5b. Accessed 9 Mar. 2017.

Grob, Gerald N. "Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum, 1847-1901." Journal of Social History, vol. 36, no. 4, 2003, p. 1108+. Student Resources in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A104635123/SUIC?u=broo69771&xid=177d70bf. Accessed 9 Mar. 2017.

Bethune, Brian. "What drove women mad? In Victorian science, the womb and the mind were inexorably linked." Maclean's, 26 Nov. 2007, p. 70. Student Resources in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A171888414/SUIC?u=broo69771&xid=abcb69bf. Accessed 9 Mar. 2017.

JSTOR

Ossa-Richardson, Anthony. “Possession or Insanity? Two Views from the Victorian Lunatic Asylum.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 74, no. 4, 2013, pp. 553–575., www.jstor.org/stable/43290161.

WEBSITES:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539549/

https://www.lib.uwo.ca/archives/virtualexhibits/londonasylum/classgender.html

http://www.victorian-era.org/mental-illness-in-victorian-era.html