If I'm going to do a steampunkish Victoriana for NaNoWriMo 2014, I'm going to need some Victoriana to modify. The Public Domain Review is an excellent source for such things--mainly primary sources. This is just a linkfest, not a descriptive post, but maybe it will do for a start/reminder. Meanwhile, some Internet Archive links snuck their way in...
Practical Advice/Society:
The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)
A History of Mourning (1890)
The Early History of Coffee Houses in England (1893)
Inns and Taverns of Old London (1909)
A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820)
Art:
Women Painters of the World: from the time of Caterina Vigri to Rosa Bonheur (1905)
Fashion:
Fancy dresses described or, What to wear at fancy balls, by Ardern Holt; 1887; Debenham & Freebody, Wyman & Sons, London.
Science and ideas:
Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature
Plates from Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807) - Illustrations to Linneaus
The Naturalist and the Neurologist: On Charles Darwin and James Crichton-Browne
Was Charles Darwin an Atheist? - a challenge to that belief
Scientific Amusements (1890)
The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli (1791) - Includes edifying essays on "Virginity" and “Fair-Sex having no Souls,” as well as “The Virgin Mary,” “Protestants,” “Coffee,” and "Transubstantiation" Primary Source
Selections from the Tatler, Spectator and Guardian (1885)
Re-examining ‘the Elephant Man’
The Medical Aspects of Death, and the Medical Aspects of the Human Mind (1852)
Portraits of Patients from Surrey County Asylum (ca.1855)
Just for Fun:
Hand Book of the Carnival, Containing Mardi-Gras, its Ancient and Modern Observance (1874)
The Practical Magician and Ventriloquist’s Guide (1876)
Mythical Monsters (1886)
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