Original Sources

General Sources

• 18th Century Reading Room
• Chambers Book of Days
• Mrs. Spectator’s Coffee House:18th Century Online Resources
• Great Books Index: Jane Austen
• The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, From July to December, by Sylvanus Urban, gent, 1816

Architecture and furniture

• Illustrated History of Furniture, Frederick Litchfield, 1851
• British Architecture: Megasite of sources

Criminal justice

• A History of Crime in England, Luke Owen Pike, 1837
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1834

Cookery

• The Book of Household Management, Isabella Beeton, 1859
• The Art of Cookery, Hannah Glasse, 1747
• 18th Century British Recipes

History

• Britannia History
• British History Online
• Full Text Documents by Period, Rutgers
• Historical Autographs: British History, 1800-1950
• History Digital Library
• Historical Text Archive
• Find Social and Historical Resources, such as postage and transportation on this site.
• National Archives of the United Kingdom
• The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George III, Sir Erskine, May 1861
• Rural Rides, William Cobbett, 1802
• The Life of Lord Nelson, Robert Southey, 1813
  

Industrial revolution

• The Golden Falcon: Silk
• The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th Century Britain,Michael Sadler, 1832
• Online Books Page: Great Britain and the Working Class

Jane Austen Biography

• Jane Austen and Her Times, G.E. Mitton, 1905
• Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends, Constance Hill, 1901
• Memoir of Jane Austen, Edward Austen Leigh, 1871
• Jane Austen by Harold Child, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Vol. 12, Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller
• Austen Family Historical Documents in the National Archives
• Jane Austen’s Will at the National Archives
• The Unique Friendship Book of Rev. James Stanier Clarke (1765-1834)
• Placing Jane Austen, Displacing England: Touring Between Book, History and Nation, Mike Crang
• Jane Austen’s Illness: British Medical Journal
• Scanning Electron Microscope Study of Jane Austen’s Hair

Jane Austen Novels & Critiques

• Pride & Prejudice, with Criticisms and Interpretations by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, etc.
• The History of England, Jane Austen
• Three Prayers, Jane Austen
• Recreating Jane Austen, John Wiltshire

Letters

• Jane Austen’s Letters to Cassandra
• Lord Byron’s Letter to Lady Caroline Lamb
• Lord Byron: Selected Letters
• The Earl of Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son, Project Gutenberg

London

• London Labour and the London Poor, Volume 1, Henry Mayhew
• The Bolles Collection on the History of London, Tufts University
• The Great Metropolis, James Grant, 1837
• Directory of London and Westminster, & Borough of Southwark, 1797: An Alphabet List of the Names and Places of Abode of the Directors of Companies, Persons in Public Business, Merchts., and other eminent Traders.
• Old London Street Cries and The Cries of Today, Andrew White Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1885 (Document made available by the University of Wisconsin)
• Parish Register.com

Manners and etiquette

• Letters to His Son, Earl of Chesterfield, 1750
• The Mirror of Graces, A Lady of Distinction, 1811
• The Gentleman’s and Lady’s Companion, Containing the Newest Cotillions and Country Dances, 1798
  
• The Dandy’s Perambulations, Author Unknown, 1819

Maps

• Greenwood’s Map of London, 1827
• Old London Maps
• Antique Maps and Prints

Memoirs

• Memoirs of Mary Darcy Robinson, 1801
• Memoir of Jane Austen, Edward Austen-Leigh, 1871
• Short Biographical Sketch of Charles Lamb, 1775-1834
• Diary of an Ennuyee, Mrs. Jameson, 1876

Objects and Possessions

• Eye Antiques
• A History of the Fan

Poetry

• The Art of Walking the Streets of London, John Gay, 1865-1732

Records

• Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses and Guild-Brethren, 1406-1841

Servants

• The Complete Servant: Being a Guide to All Servants, Samuel and Sara Adams, Fifty Years Servants in Different Families, p 557 - 569, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume XVIII, July - December, 1825

• The House Servants Directory, Robert Roberts, 1827 Online resource

• The Footman’s Directory and Butler’s Remembrances, Or the Advice of Onesimus to his Young Friends, A Marcus Alfred, Hatchard & Son, 1823 (Available for purchase in the U.K.)

Social History and Satire

• Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-1750
• The English Spy by C.M. Westmacott, illustrated by Robert Cruikshank
• The Wits and Beaux of Society, Philip and Grace Wharton, 1890
• Life in Regency England, R. J. White, 1963 (Some free pages)
• The Cock of Cotton Walk and the Maid of All Work: A Poem, 1820

Transportation

• The Night Coach, P 570 - 573, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume XVIII, July - December, 1825

Victorians

• George du Maurier, The Satirist of the Victorians, T. Martin Wood, 1913
  

Scholarly Journals, Books, and Collections

• Journals and articles (Georgian Resources)
• Journals (Georgian Resources)
• A Guide to the Jane Austen Collection, Goucher College
• 19th Century Fashion Reading List: Victorian and Albert Museum