Life in
19th Century England

Lakewood High School
Grade 9
Pearce / Blackie

Charles Dickens

Resources on the Web:

The Penny Magazine - what the working class in 1830's England was reading. Find the text of several issues here.
The Victorian Fashion Pages - History of general and very specific topics, plus a pictorial guide.
The Regency Fashion Page
Dickens' London - Look for further links on Dickens' time
London 1865 - Essays about and photographs from the time of Our Mutual Friend.
The Victorian Web - An extensive catalog of Victoriana to accompany college classes on Victorian literature.
"Imagining Victorian London, An Entertainment & Itinerary (Chas. Dickens, Guide)." - A six page article with illustrations by Joss Lutz Marsh
The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century England - A textbook excerpt.
Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia - British History 1700-1920 - A great many topics, including education, women's emancipation, child labor and 19th Century London.
Hobnobbing With the Nobility of 19th Century England - An essay from a high school class project.
Victorian Station - Look for information about Victorian England (some is about American Victoriana).
The Great Exhibition of 1851 - the most important industrial art exhibition of the nineteenth century.
London: A Pilgrimage - this account, by the nineteenth century French printmaker and Illustrator Gustave Dore, includes chapters on sporting life in London.

Books from Lakewood Public Library: These are a few selections on both general and specific topics. You can search the Lakewood Public Library catalog, or just browse the shelves near the call numbers below.

Daily life in victorian England / Sally Mitchell
            Location: MAIN ADULT Book 941.081 Mitchell
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew: from fox hunting to whist: the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England / Daniel Pool
            Location: MAIN ADULT Book 820.9008 738
Victorians at home / Susan Lasdun
            Location: MAIN ADULT Book 947.22 553
Victorian and Edwardian decor : from the gothic revival to art nouveau / Jeremy Cooper
            Location: MAIN ADULT Book 747.22 24    MAIN ADULT Book 747.22 Cooper
Fabric of society : a century of people and their clothes, 1770-1870 / by Jane Tozer and Sarah Levitt
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 391.00942 889
From Queen to Empress: Victorian dress 1837-1877 / Caroline Goldthorpe
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 390.00941 427
Victorian life in photographs /
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 914.20381 9157
Victorian panorama, a survey of life & fashion from contemporary photographs
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 938.1 65
The age of Dickens, by Patrick Rooke.
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 914.20381 787
Daily life in a Victorian house / Laura Wilson.
             Location: MADISON & MAIN JUVENILE Book j941.081 Wilson
Queen Victoria : the woman, the monarchy, and the people / by Dorothy Thompson
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book BIO Victoria
Golden times; human documents of the Victorian age / E. Royston Pike
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 942.081 725
Iron bridge to crystal palace : impact and images of the Industrial Revolution / Asa Briggs
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 338.0941 177
Age of machines: a pictorial history, 1815-1901 / R. J. Unstead.
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 909.81 9057
Victorian town life / Michael Rawcliffe.
             Location: MAIN JUVENILE Book j941.081 Rawcliffe
The Chartists: popular politics in the Industrial Revolution / Dorothy Thompson
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 322.20941 8785
A Victorian portrait: Victorian life and values as seen through the work of studio photographs
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 779.941081 624
Dickens and charity / Norris Pope
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 823.8 281737
A social history of England, 1851-1975 / François Bédarida
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 309.142081 142
The transformation of Britain, 1830-1939 / G.E. Mingay
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 306.0941 Mingay
The idea of poverty: England in the early Industrial Age / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 362.50942 465
London, a social history / Roy Porter
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 942.1 Porter
Victorian London street life in historic photographs / John Thomson
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 942.12081 Thomson
London in Dickens' day
             Location: MAIN ADULT Book 942.1 5393