Key Resources:
There may be as many as 50,000 periodicals published during the Victorian era ... Rosemary T. VanArsdel in Preamble: Research Tools for Studying Victorian Periodicals (http://victorianresearch.org/preamble.html)
Indexes/Bibliographies/Guides
- The British Empire in the Victorian Press, 1832-1867 : A Bibliography (General Coll./Floor 3 DA16.P34 1987)
- C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
- Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
- The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
- Palmer's Index to the Times
- American Periodicals Series
- British Periodicals
- Periodicals Index Online
- The English Literary Journal to 1900: A Guide to Information Sources (Reference PN5114.W45)
- Guide to British Literary Magazines: The Victorian & Edwardian Age, 1837-1913 (Reference PN5124.L6B74 1983)
- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (Reference AI3.P7, 1802-1902, includes cumulative author index)
- Union List of Victorian Serials (... Selected Nineteenth-Century British Serials Available in United States and Canadian Libraries) (Reference PN 5124.P4F85 1985)
- The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900 (Reference Z6945.W38) -- available online (http://www.victorianperiodicals.com/) 30-day trial
- The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 (Reference Z2005.H6) -- online through C19 (above)
- Women's Magazines 1693-1968 (Reference PN5124.W6W5)
- See also extensive list of guides at www.victorianresearch.org/periodicals.html
Periodicals in Microform (published in 19th century) including newspapers*
- *The Athenaeum (London) weekly newspaper 1828-1842 (Microfilm AP4.A8)
- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (Edinburgh)
1817-1905 (Microfilm AP4.B6)
- Cornhill Magazine (London) 1860-1924 (Microfilm AP4.C8)
- Edinburgh Review (Edinburgh) 1802-1910 (Microfilm AP4.E3)
- *The Examiner: A Weekly Paper (London) 1808-1881 (Journal on film AP4.E9)
- *Illustrated London News (London) weekly newspaper 1842-1865 (Microfilm AP4.I3)
- Lady's Magazine (London) 1770-1832 (Microfilm HQ1593.W55 1992)
- Parts 3 (1770-1800) and 4 (1801-1832) of "Women Advising Women--Advice Books, Manuals & Journals for Women"
(136 reels) Guide: Micro HQ 1593.W55 1992
- *Manchester Guardian (London) daily newspaper 1840-1876, 1883-1884 (Microfilm DA690.M4M3)
- *Monthly Chronicle (London) 1838-1841 (Microfilm AP4.M66)
- Morning Chronicle (London) daily newspaper 1801-1862, 1864-1865 (Microfilm DA677.M4)
- New Quarterly Review (London) 1852-1862 (Microfilm PN1N48)
- People's Journal (and People's and Howillt's Journal) (London) 1846-1851 (Microfilm HQ1101.W67 rl. L4)
- Punch (London) 1841-1992 (Microfilm AP101.P8 Vol. 1-301)
- Quarterly Review (London) 1809-1906 (Microfilm AP4.Q2)
- * Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art (London) weekly newspaper 1855-1917 (Microfilm AP4.S3)
- Sex & Sexuality,1640-1940. literary, medical and sociological perspectives (Microfilm HQ21 .S46)
- Parts 3 & 4 include erotic magazines, including The Exquisite (1842-44) and The Pearl (1799)
- *Sunday Times (London) weekly newspaper 1822-present (Microfilm AI21.T462)
- *Times (London) daily newspaper 1788-present (Microfilm AI21.T46)
- Palmer's Index to the Times, 1790-1905 (Microfiche AI21.T5)
- Women and Victorian Values, 1837-1910 Advice Books, Manuals, and Journals for Women (Microfilm HQ1593.W557)
- Parts 3 & 4: rare journals aimed at girls and women -- for example: The Lady's World 1885-1890 ("upmarket") and Woman's World 1868 ("more down-to-earth") Guide: Micro HQ1593.W557 Pt. 1-4
19th Century Microfilm Collections:
- Nineteenth Century English Drama Princeton University Library (Microfiche: PR1271.E5)
- Sex & Sexuality,1640-1940 Literary, medical and sociological perspectives (73 reels) Guide: Micro HQ21 .S46)
- Women Advising Women 1450-1837 Advice Books, Manuals & Journals for Women (136 reels) Guide: Micro HQ 1593.W55 1992
- Women and Victorian Values, 1837-1910 Advice Books, Manuals, and Journals for Women (144 reels) Guide: Micro HQ1593.W557
- Women's Languages and Experiences: (1500-1940) Women's Diaries and Realted Sources (138 reels) Guide: Micro
HQ1583.W66 1994
- see also "History Collections on Microform -- ODU" http://www.lib.odu.edu/resources/historycollections/index.htm
Periodicals in Print (published in 19th century)
- British Critic (London)
1793-1817
(AP4.B73)
- The Germ: a Pre-Raphaelite little magazine (London) 1850 (AP4.G413 3rd floor)
- Household Words
- The Household Narrative of Current Events, Supplement to Household Words 1850-1855 (AP4.H89 3rd floor)
- Uncollected writings from Household words, 1850-1859 (PR4552.S7 4th floor)
- The Lady's monthly museum, or Polite repository of amusement and instruction (London) 1798-1814 (AP3.L33 3rd floor)
- Lady's Realm (London) 1896-1906 (AP4.L229)
- Macmillan's Magazine (Cambridge) 1860-1907 (AP4.M2)
- The Mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction (London) 1823-1832 (AP4.M5)
- North British Review (Edinburgh) 1844-1871 (AP4.N8)
- The Yellow book; an illustrated quarterly (London) 1894-1897 (AP4.Y42) Reprint
Periodicals on the Web
- Godey's Lady's Book (Philadelphia; American life and culture) 1830-1880 (ODU subscription -- http://www.lib.odu.edu/resources/databases/g/index.htm)
- Internet Library of Early Journals (digitized 20-year runs of six 18th and 19th-century British journals) (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/)
- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1843-1863
- The Builder 1843-1852
- Notes and Queries 1849-1869
- Gentleman's Magazine (18th cent.)
- Annual Register (18th cent.)
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (18th cent.)
- The Online Books Page: Serials (extensive list of periodicals from all time periods available freely on the Web (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/serials.html)
- Project Gutenberg (the first and largest single collection of free electronic books - includes periodicals) (http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/)
- Atlantic Monthly (Boston) 1857-1866
- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1843-1844
- Punch
- Victorian Web: Victorian Periodicals Mentioned in the Victorian Web -- selected articles from Victorian periodicals
Other Resources on the Web
- E-Texts for Victorianists (archive of texts by nineteenth-century authors such as Arnold, Carlyle, Newman, Pater, and Wilde as well as important works by lesser-known writers)
- The Victorian Women Writers Project (major archival project making works available through the Web)
- Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project ("correspondences of early to mid-Victorian British women writers, and a database of the writers' interpersonal transactions as recorded by and in their letters both published and unpublished")
- Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches in selected works of two dozen Victorian authors
- British Poetry 1780-1910 : a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (University of Virginia)
Journals About 19th Century Literature
- 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (online -- http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/index.htm)
- Keats-Shelley Journal -- annual 1952-2004 on 4th floor PR590 .K4
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction -- from 1949-1986 in JSTOR; from 1949-1986 in ODU print PR873.T76
- formerly: Trollopian; a journal of Victorian fiction -- from 1945-1949 in JSTOR and in ODU print PR873.T76
- Nineteenth Century French Studies -- from 2000-present in InfoTrac; from 2001-present in Project Muse; from 1972-2003 in ODU print PQ1.N55
- Nineteenth-Century Literature -- from 1986-2001 in JSTOR; from 1986-present in ODU print
- Nineteenth Century Prose -- from 1989-present in ODU print PR4023.A14
- Victorian Literature and Culture -- from 1999-present in Cambridge Journals Online; in ODU print PR4229.B77a
- The Victorian Newsletter -- from 1963 to 2002 in ODU print PR1.V48
- Victorian Periodicals Review -- from 2005-present in Project Muse; from 1979-present in ODU print PR1145.A1V52
- Victorian Poetry -- from 2001-present in InfoTrac OneFile; from 2000-present in Project Muse; from 1963-1983,1986-2001 in ODU print PR500.V5
- Victorian Studies -- from 1993-present in InfoTrac OneFile; from 1999-present in Project Muse; from 1958-present in ODU print PR1 .V5
Journals NOT available at ODU -- Try Interlibrary Loan
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