Books on Oscar Wilde

Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.
Holland, Merlin and Rupert Hart-Davis, ed. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000.
Jackson, John Wyse. The Uncollected Oscar Wilde. London: Fourth Estate, 1995.
Nicholls, Mark. The Importance of Being Oscar: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde, Set Against his Life and Times. Ney York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980.
Raby, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Smith, Philip E., and Michael S. Helfand. Oscar Wilde’s Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Redman, Alvin, ed. The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde. New York: Dover Publications, 1959.
Roden, Frederick S. Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Books on the 19th Century — Victorian Age

Belchem, John and Richard Price. The Penguin Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century History. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.
Evans, Hilary and Mary. The Victorians: At Home and at Work, As Illustrated by Themselves. New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1973.
Hibbert, Christopher. The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Victorian England. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1975.
Lambert, Anthony J. Victorian and Edwardian Country-House Life from old photographs. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1981.
Margetson, Stella. Victorian High Society. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1980.
Mason, Philip. The English Gentleman: The Rise and Fall of an Ideal. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.
Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Perrot, Michelle, ed. A History of Private Life, IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990.
Peterson, M. Jeanne. Family, Love, and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. A History of Everyday Things in England, Volume IV: 1851 to 1914. Revised Christina Hole. London: B.T. Batsford, 1953.
Reader, W.J. Victorian England. London: William Clowes and Sons, 1973.
Sansom, William (intro). Victorian Life in Photographs. Thames and Hudson. London, 1974.
The Victorian Scene: A Picture Book of the Period, 1837-1901. London: Bentley, Nicolas, 1968.

Books on London

Cady, Michael, ed. The Book of London. Basingstoke: Automobile Association, 1979.
Hibbert, Christopher. London: The Biography of a City. New York: Penguin Books, 1983.
Howgego, James L., ed. The Victorian and Edwardian City of London: From old photographs. London: B.T. Batsford, 1977.
Jackson, Peter. Walks in Old London. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993.
Leapman, Michael, ed. The Book of London: The Evolution of a Great City, 1989.
Porter, Roy. London: A Social History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Richardson, John. The Annals of London: A Year-by-Year Record of a Thousand Years of History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

On the Web (These links are accurate as of October, 2009)

London: Illustrated by Eighteen Bird’s-Eye Views of the Principal Streets, Herbert Fry. London: W.H. Allen and Co, 1887. Accessed through Google Books.
The Official Website of Oscar Wilde
Old UK Photos
Selective Guide to Posh London,” Benedict Nightingale. Published in The New York Times on January 20, 1985.
The Victorian Dictionary
The Victorian Web

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