The following sites are useful in many different ways for scholars of the British Victorian period. Sites that contain information specific to a particular subject category (for example, art) are more likely to be listed on the relevant subject page. Please feel free to add links and brief descriptions of sites that you find useful for Victorian studies.
Victorian Women Writers Project
Site dedicated to digitizing texts by important women writers of the 19th Century, focusing largely on those whose work is no longer in print. Includes novels, short fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fictional essays.
The Victorian Web
Enormous, highly-respected, collaborative scholarly site with historical information, author profiles, illustrations, analyses, and more on hundreds of topics ranging from religion to art to social history to literature. Generally contains recent scholarship rather than 19th-century texts, although there are many examples of Victorian visual arts included.
Internet Library of Early Journals
Contains facsilime pages of at least 20 years' worth of the following 19th-century journals:
- Notes and Queries
- The Builder
- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Dictionary of Victorian London
Highly-detailed informational site focusing on London, including maps, social history, customs, illustrations, and more.
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