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6. Europe in the Nineteenth Century
f. Victorian Society
Churchill, Winston Spencer. My Early Life: A Roving Commission. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1987. (First pub., 1930. Covers years, 1874-1902.) NRG: DA 566.9 .C5 A3
Harrison, Shirley. The Diary of Jack the Ripper: [The Discovery, the Investigation, the Debate]. New York: Hyperion, 1993. (Harrison makes strong case that James Maybrick, Liverpool cotton merchant, was the notorious serial killer of late nineteenth-century London. Book includes full text of the diary, whose last page was signed "Yours truly, Jack the Ripper," plus arguments for and against its authenticity.) NRG: HV 6535 .G6 L635 1993
Hellerstein, Erna Olafson, and others, eds. Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France, and the United States. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1981. RGC: HQ 1599 .E5 V5 1981
Martineau, Harriet. Harriet Martineau on Women. New Brunswich, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1985. NRG, RGC: HQ 1597 .M375 1985
Murray, Janet Horowitz, ed. Strong-minded Women: And Other Lost Voices from Nineteenth-century England. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. (Personal accounts by contemporary women and men, debating the questions that defined womanhood in England during the period.) NRG: HQ 1593 .S86 1982
Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters. Edited by Martha Vicinus and Bea Nergaard. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. RVS: WZ 100 N688e 1990
Nightingale, Florence. Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing. Revised, with additions. Edited by Victor Skretkowicz. London: Scutari, 1992. RVS: WY 7 N688n 1992
Nightingale, Florence. Letters of Florence Nightingale in the History of Nursing Archive, Special Collections, Boston University Libraries. Boston: Boston University, Mugar Memorial Library, Nursing Archive, 1974. RVS: WY 7 N688 1974
Schriber, Mary Suzanne, ed. Telling Travels:
Selected Writings by Nineteenth-Century American Women Abroad. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995. (Excerpts
from published works. Most of the writings have to do with England and other
nations in Europe. One must consult the introductions to see exact locations.
The sixteen authors include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, and Helen
Hunt Jackson.) NRG: PS 648 .T73 T45 1995
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain. Queen Victoria in her Letters and Journals. Compiled by Christopher Hibbert. Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2000. Subjects include family, marriage, politics, the arts, etc. Time period covered: 1819-1901.) RGC, RVS: DA 552 .Q46 2000