The Victorian Era
Sample Call Numbers
Sample Subject Headings
Library Catalogs
Sample Materials
Research Databases
Relevant Journals
Selected Web Pages and Digital Archives
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Sample Call Numbers
Great Britain History Victorian Era 1837-1901
English Literature by period
English Literature 19th century, 1770/1800-1890/1900
Prose by period
Victorian Novel
Clothing |
DA 550-DA 565
PR 451-PR 469
PN 3991-PN 5990
PR 783
PR 871
TT 985 |
Sample Subject Headings
Start by searching the catalog by keyword. Use whatever terms you think best describe your topic. When you find a record that matches what you are looking for, view the record and see what subject headings were used. Then search again using that term as a subject search.
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Great Britain – History – Victoria, 1837-1901
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Great Britain – History – Victoria, 1837-1901 – Pictorial Works
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Great Britain – History – Victoria, 1837-1901 – Sources
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Great Britain – History – Victoria, 1837-1901 – Poetry
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Great Britain – History – Victoria, 1837-1901—Literary Collections
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Great Britain – History – Victoria, 1837-1901 – Encyclopedias
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Library Catalogs
Von Canon Library Catalog
Washington and Lee Catalog
VMI Preston Library Catalog
Rockbridge Public Library Catalog (incl. BV Branch)
WorldCat Database
Sample Materials
Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries
A companion to the Victorian novel
Women's poetry and religion in Victorian England
Victorian London's middle-class housewife
The demography of Victorian England and Wales
Romantic stages: set and costume design in Victorian England
Victorian England aspects of English and imperial history
Poverty and compassion: the moral imagination of the late Victorians
Victorian miniature
Language and class in Victorian England
A prison of expectations: the family in Victorian culture
Woman and the demon: the life of a Victorian myth
The romantic impulse in Victorian fiction
Portrait of an age: Victorian England
Science serialized representation of the sciences in 19th century…
Nature and the Victorian imagination
Sex and marriage in Victorian poetry
The Victorian revolution: government and society in...Britain
Urban crime in Victorian England
Matthew Arnold; a study of the aesthetic temperament in Victorian…
The expansion of England |
Credo Reference
e-Book
e-Book
e-Book
e-Book
PN 2087 .F56
e-Book
HV 4086 .A3 H54
DA 690 .K433 C48
PE 1085 .P45 1984
HQ 613 .M56 1985
PR 469 .W65 A93
PR 878 .R73 S7
DA 550 .Y6 1977
e-Book
BH 221 .G73 N37
PR 469 .S4 J6
JN 216 .S7 1973
HV 6944 .T6 1972
REMOTE PR 4023 .M3
DA 16 .S45 1971 |
Research Databases
Academic Search Complete
America: History and Life
ArchiveGrid
Bridgeman Art Library
Cambridge Companions
Camio
Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction
Classical Music Library
Credo Reference
Dictionary of Literary Biography
eBook Collection
Harpers Weekly
HighWire Press
Humanities International Complete
JSTOR
JURN
Literature Resources from Gale
MasterFILE Premier
MLA
National Gallery Collection
OAISter
Oxford English Dictionary
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Scribner Writer's Series
Twayne Author's Series
Wiley Online Library
Women's Studies International
WorldCat
Relevant Journals
Victorian Newsletter
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Studies
Victorian Institute Journal
Nineteenth Century Gender Studies
Nineteenth-Century Literature
English Literary History
English Historical Review
British Heritage
These are just examples. To find more, or to look for a specific journal/periodical, use the JournalFinder tool on the Von Canon Library homepage.
Selected Web Pages & Digital Archives
Victorian Web Online
Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online
The Victorian Dictionary
World History Sources
The Imperial Archive
Extracts from Queen Victoria’s Diaries
British Newspapers 1800-1900
British History Online
The Carlyle Letters Online
Online Lit. Criticism British 19th Century
Victorian Era Maps of Great Britain
India, Illustrated
Historical Atlas and Gazetteer of Europe from Year 1 to 2000