The Sherborn Library

Pathfinders: Dickens


 

PATHFINDER
TOPIC: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES DICKENS
Step 1:
The Reference Section
(for use in the Library only)
Consult collective biography sources.
R 92.03
Au
British Authors of the Nineteenth Century
Step 2:
The General Collection
(materials you can borrow)
 
Biographies:

B Dicken
 

B Dickens

Audio B Austen

 

The World According to Charles Dickens by Angus Wilson
 

Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
 

Obstinate Heart, Jane Austen

Non-Fiction

942.081 PO   What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
J 823.8 YA   Life in Charles Dickens' England by Diane Yancy
942.08 HI  The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Victorian England
616.852 DR  

The Birth of Neurosis: Myth, Malady, and the Victorians by George Frederick Drinka

973.09 RA

American Victorians: Explorations in Emotional History by Burton Raffel

974.461 RO volume3  

The Book of Boston: the Victorian Period, 1837 to 1901

by Marjorie Ross Drake

823.809 PO  

Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: the  Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists by Daniel Pool

920 RO  Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
974.461 VI 

Victorian Boston Today: Ten Walking Tours by Pauline Chase Harrell

942.081 RE   Victorian England by W.J. Reader
942.081 HO The Victorian Frame of Mind by Walter Edwards Houghton
821.09 ST       Victorian Poets by Edmund Clarence Stedman
778.92 HI Victorian Studio Photographers by Bevis Hillier
301.41 CR The Victorian Woman by Duncan Crow
331.4 HI Victorian Working Woman: Portraits from Life by Michael Hiley

745.1 LA

Victoriana by Jean Lee Latham
941.081 WI The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
306.0942 HU The Writer's Guide to Everyday life in Regency and Victorian England by Kristine Highes
England-Description & Travel:
914.104

Karen Brown's English, Welsh & Scottish Country Hotels Itineraries
Culture & Style:
391.09
 
History of Fashion by J. Anderson Black
Step 3:
Non-Print
Resources:

(Online and Audio Visual Materials)

Relevant Websites

The City as Hero: Victorian London
Arts in Victorian England
 

Database Via the 'Net
InfoTrac (Periodicals / Newspapers): Home Access
InfoTrac (Periodicals / Newspapers): Access Within Library

A service of the Mass. Board of Library Commissioners, Infotrac is a comprehensive online subject index for access via the Internet services of the Sherborn Library, including many full text periodical articles from general and specialized periodicals.
General
Search Engine:
Dogpile
(Searches 13 WWW search engines and compiles results)
Minuteman Library
Network:
Search the catalogs of the libraries in the Metrowest region via the Minuteman Network
All Massachusetts
Library Networks:
Massachusetts Library and Information Network
To locate additional information in the Sherborn Library Graphical Online Catalog, you can perform a subject search which enables you to browse a list of headings, or a keyword search which enables you to locate your search topic as part of the title and subject index.


 

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