Research

The Victorian Period

• Altick, Richard D. Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature.
• Brander, Michael. The Victorian Gentleman.
• Briggs, Asa. Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67.
• Flanders, Judith. Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England.
• Hill, Thomas E. Essential Handbook of Victorian Etiquette.
• Houghton, Walter E. The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870.
• Hughes, Kristine. Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England from 1811-1901.
• Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor.
• Picard, Liza. Victorian London.
• Pool, Daniel. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist . The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England.
• Thomson, John. Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs.

London books

• Ackroyd, Peter. London: The Biography.
• Bell, Walter G. et al. London Wall Through Eighteen Centuries.
• Halliday, Stephen. The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis.
• Hyde, Ralph. The A to Z of Georgian London.
• Jackson, Lee. A Dictionary of Victorian London.
• Matthews, John and Chesca Potter. The Aquarian Guide to Legendary London.
• Nead, Lynda. Victorian Babylon.
• Smith, Stephen. Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets.
• Tames, Richard. A Traveller’s History of London.
• Trench, Richard, and Ellis Hillman. London Under London: A Subterranean Guide.
• White, Jerry. London in the Nineteenth Century.
• Whitfield, Peter. London: A Life in Maps.
• Murray.s Modern London, 1860.

The Underground

• Croome, Desmond F. The Circle Line: An Illustrated History.
• Rose, Douglas. The London Underground: A Diagrammatic History.
• Wolmar, Christian. The Subterranean Railway.

Irish history

• Davis, Graham. The Irish in Britain, 1815-1914.
• Friel, Brian. Translations.
• Short, K.R.M. The Dynamite War.
• Swift, Roger, and Sheridan Gilley, eds. The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939.

Faerie lore

• Briggs, Katherine. British Folk Tales and Legends.
• Briggs, Katherine. The Faeries in Tradition and Literature.
• Keightley, Thomas. The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves & Other Little People.
• Rose, Carol. Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins.
• Simpson, Jacqueline, and Steve Roud. A Dictionary of English Folklore.
• Silver, Carole G. Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness.
• Westwood, Jennifer and Jacqueline Simpson. The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England’s Legends from Spring-Heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys.

Indian folklore

• Dallapiccola, Anna L. Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend.
• Dimmitt, Cornelia, and J.A.B. van Buitenen, ed. and trans. Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas.
• Zimmer, Heinrich. Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization.

Chinese folklore

• Birrell, Anne. Chinese Mythology.
• Pu, Songling. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Ed. and trans. John Minford.
• Strassberg, Richard E., ed. and trans. A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas.

Spiritualism and the occult

• Blavatsky, H.P. The Key to Theosophy.
• Oppenheim, Janet. The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
• Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England.

Clothing

• Brooke, Iris, and James Laver. English Costume from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries.
• Cunnington, C. Willett. English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century.
• Gernsheim, Alison. Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey.
• Peacock, John. Costume 1066-1990s.

Other topics

• Brown, Douglas G. The Rise of Scotland Yard.
• Fraser, Antonia, ed. The Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
• Gross, Francis. A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. Ed. Eric Partridge.
• Gustavson, Todd and George Eastman House. Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital
• Matthews, William. Cockney Past and Present: A Short History of the Dialect of London.
• Mayhew, Henry, et al. The London Underworld in the Victorian Period.
• Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day.
• Toole, Betty A. Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron’s Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer.
• Winder, Robert. Bloody Foreigners.
• Woodward, Geo E. Victorian City and Country Houses: Plans and Details.
• Yorke, Trevor. The Victorian House Explained.

In addition to these books, I made extensive use of the Oxford English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Wikipedia, the archives of the London Times, and MAPCO‘s 1886 Post Office map of London.