REFERENCES FOR FURTHER STUDY

HISTORICAL

Walker’s Essentials in English History, Cheney’s A Short History of England, McCarthy’s History of Our Own Times, Cheney’s Industrial and Social History of England, Traill’s Social England, VI.

LITERARY

The Cambridge History of English Literature.

Walker’s The Literature of the Victorian Era.

Magnus’s English Literature in the Nineteenth Century.

Saintsbury’s A History of English Literature in the Nineteenth
Century.

Kennedy’s English Literature, 1880-1905.

Walker’s Greater Victorian Poets.

Brownell’s Victorian Prose Masters.

Payne’s The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century.

Brooke’s Four Victorian Poets (Rossetti, Arnold, Morris).

Perry’s A Study of Prose Fiction.

Benson’s Rossetti. (E.M.L.)

Noyes’s William Morris. (E.M.L.)

Trevelyan’s Life and Letters of Macaulay.  Morrison’s Macaulay. 
(E.M.L.)

Minto’s English Prose Literature (Macaulay and Carlyle).

Barry’s Newman.

Ward’s The Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman, 2 vols.

Newman’s Letters and Correspondence, with a Brief Autobiography.

Carlyle’s Reminiscences.

Froude’s Thomas Carlyle, 2 vols.  Nichol’s Carlyle. (E.M.L.)

Garnett’s Thomas Carlyle. (G.W.)

Froude’s Jane Welsh Carlyle, 2 vols.

T. and A. Carlyle’s New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle.

Cook’s The Life of John Ruskin, 2 vols.

Ruskin’s Praeterita, Scenes and Thoughts of My Past Life.

Benson’s Ruskin:  A Study in Personality.

Earland’s Ruskin and his Circle.

Harrison’s John Ruskin. (E.M.L.)

Birrell’s Life of Charlotte Bronte.

Foster’s Life of Dickens (abridged and revised by Gissing).

Kitton’s Dickens, his Life, Writings, and Personality.

Gissing’s Charles Dickens:  A Critical Study.

Chesterton’s Charles Dickens.  Hughes’s Dickens as an Educator.

Philip’s A Dickens Dictionary.

Melville’s William Makepeace Thackeray, 2 vols.

Trollope’s Thackeray. (E.M.L.)

Merivale and Marzials’s Life of Thackeray. (G.W.)

Mudge and Sears’s A Thackeray Dictionary.

Cross’s George Eliot’s Life as Related in her Letters and Journals.

Browning’s Life of George Eliot. (G.W.) Stephens’s George Eliot. 
(E.M.L.)