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• The Scholar Adventurers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Richard D. Altick (PDF at Ohio State)
• English Lands, Letters and Kings (4 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1896-1897), by Donald Grant Mitchell
  • Volume I (From Celt to Tudor): Gutenberg text
  • Volume II (From Elizabeth to Anne): Gutenberg text
  • Volume III (Queen Anne and the Georges): Gutenberg text
  • Volume IV (The Later Georges to Victoria): Gutenberg text
• My Table-Cloths: A Few Reminiscences (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1916), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences (London: J. Murray, 1913), by Katharine Tynan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Enchanted Glass: The Elizabethan Mind in Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1936), by Hardin Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature (3 volumes; London: Edward Moxon, 1841), by Isaac Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Recollections (2 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1917), by John Morley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Medieval England (c1999), by Steven Muhlberger (HTML at arlima.net)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of Elizabethan Literature (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Shakespeare's England (revised illustrated edition; New York and London: Macmillan, 1898), by William Winter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• George Buchanan, Humanist and Reformer: A Biography (Edinburgh: David Douglas. 1890), by P. Hume Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Companion to the Cavendishes (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, c2020), ed. by Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Closet Devotions (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Richard Rambuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)
• Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century (3 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1908), ed. by Joel Elias Spingarn (page images at HathiTrust; some volumes US access only)
• The Seventeenth-Century English Essay (University of Iowa Humanistic Studies v3 #3; ca. 1926), by Elbert N. S. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Thomas Browne and His "Religio Medici": An Appreciation, by Alexander Whyte, contrib. by Thomas Browne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Timber: or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter, by Ben Jonson, ed. by Ian Lancashire (HTML at Toronto)
• Timber: or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1892), by Ben Jonson, ed. by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's England (revised illustrated edition; New York and London: Macmillan, 1898), by William Winter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jasper Albert Cragwall (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the "Bas Bleu" Society (1717-1806) (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Alice C. C. Gaussen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the "Bas Bleu" Society (1717-1806) (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Alice C. C. Gaussen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge (originally published 1987; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Bernard V. Lightman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Making It Whole: A Victorian Circle and the Shape of Their World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Diana Postlethwaite (PDF at Ohio State)
• Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jasper Albert Cragwall (PDF at Ohio State)
• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Spirit of the Age: or, Contemporary Portraits, by William Hazlitt (Gutenberg text)
• Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater (1969), by David J. DeLaura (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Carlyle and Mill: An Introduction to Victorian Thought (second edition revised; New York: Columbia University Press, 1926), by Emery Neff
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Cambridge "Apostles" (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Frances M. Brookfield
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Chambers's Journal (partial serial archives)
• Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, ed. by William Chambers and Robert Chambers (full serial archives)
• Fraser's Magazine (full serial archives)
• The Whirlwind (London-based "lively and eccentric newspaper"; 26 issues published, 1890; US access only), ed. by Ruaraidh Erskine and Herbert Vivian, contrib. by Arthur Machen (full serial archives)

• The Carlyle Letters Online: A Victorian Cultural Reference, by Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle (HTML at dukejournals.org)

• Samuel Rogers and His Contemporaries (based on the 1889 Smith, Elder edition, with annotated names; 2009), by Peter William Clayden, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)
• Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1885), by James Anthony Froude
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Robert Buchanan: Some Account of His Life, His Life's Work, and His Literary Friendships, by Harriett Jay (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Nights: Rome, Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris in the Fighting Nineties (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1916), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), by Michael Galchinsky (multiple formats with commentry at wayne.edu)

• Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945-1975 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Ian Hall (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)
• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)
• The New Dark Ages Conspiracy: Britain's Plot to Destroy Civilization, by Carol Schitzner White (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)
• Table-Talk of G. B. S.: Conversations on Things in General, Between George Bernard Shaw and His Biographer (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1925), by Bernard Shaw and Archibald Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christ in Hades (London and New York: John Lane, 1917), by Stephen Phillips, contrib. by C. Lewis Hind, illust. by Stella Langdale (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Blue-stockings: Her Correspondence From 1720 To 1761 (2 volumes; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Mrs. Montagu, ed. by Emily J. Climenson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

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