| Addison, Rhian and Underwood, Hilary | Liberating Fashion: Aesthetic Dress in Victorian Portraits (Compton, Surrey: Watts Gallery Trust, 2015) |
| Aplin, John | The Inheritance of Genius: A Thackeray Family Biography 1798-1875 (Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 2010) |
| Bell, Alan (ed.) | Sir Leslie Stephen’s Mausoleum Book (Clarendon Press: Oxford 1977) (MB) |
| Bennett, Mary | Who Was Dr Jackson: Two Calcutta Families: 1830-1855 (London: BACSA, 2002) |
| Bill, E.G.W. | University Reform in Nineteenth-Century Oxford: A Study of Henry Halford Vaughan 1811-1885 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1973) |
| Blunt, Wilfred | England’s Michelangelo: A Biography of George Frederic Watts (London: Columbus Books, 1989) |
| Bryant, Barbara | G.F. Watts Portraits: Fame and Beauty in Victorian Society (London: National Portrait Gallery, 2004) G.F. Watts in Kensington: Little Holland House and Gallery (Compton, Surrey, Watts Gallery, 2009) |
| Bulley, Anne | Free Mariner (London: BACSA, 1992) |
| Dakers, Caroline | The Holland Park Circle: Artist and Victorian Society (Newhaven and London: Yale University Press, 1999 |
| Dalrymple, William | White Moghuls: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (London: Flamingo, 2003)The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company (London: Bloomsbury, 2019) |
| Dalrymple, William (ed.) | Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2019) |
| Dell, Marion | Peering through the Escallonia (London: Cecil Woolf, 1999)Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears: Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) |
| Dell, Marion and Whybrow, Marion | Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: Remembering St Ives (Padstow, Cornwall: Tabb House, 2003) |
| Dickinson, Violet (ed.) | Miss Eden’s Letters (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919) |
| Eleanor, Eden (ed.) | Letters from India (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1872. 2 volumes) |
| Fay, Eliza | Original Letters from India with introduction and notes by E.M. Forster (London: The Hogarth Press, 1925) |
| Fisher, Herbert | An Unfinished Biography (Oxford: OUP, 1940) |
| Giachero, Lia (ed.) | Vanessa Bell: Sketches in Pen and Ink, Prologue by Angelica Garnett (London: The Hogarth Press, 1997) |
| Gillespie, Diane and Steele, Elizabeth (eds.) | Julia Duckworth Stephen: Stories for Children, Essays for Adults (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1987) |
| Gilmour, David | The British in India (London: Penguin Random House, 2019) |
| Harden, Edgar F. | The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray A supplement to Gordon N. Ray The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray Vol 1. (Abingdon Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2017) |
| Hill, Brian | Julia Margaret Cameron: A Victorian Family Portrait (London: Peter Owen, 1973) |
| Hutchings, Richard J. and Hinton, Brian (eds.) | The Farringford Journal of Emily Tennyson 1853-1864 (Newport, Isle of Wight: The Isle of Wight County Press, 1986) |
| Kincaid, Dennis | British Social Life in India, 1608-1937 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1938) |
| Lee, Hermione | Virginia Woolf (London: Vintage, 1997) |
| Le Faye, Deirdre | Jane Austen’s ‘Outlandish Cousin’: The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide (London: The British Library, 2002) |
| Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie | Engaging Scoundrels: True Tales of Old Lucknow (New Delhi: O.U.P, 2000) |
| Losty, J.P. | Calcutta City of Palaces: A Survey of the City in the Days of the East IndiaCompany 1690-1858 (London: The British Library, 1990) |
| Mulligan, Therese et al. | For my best beloved sister Mia: An album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1994) |
| Olsen, Victoria | From Life: Julia Margaret Cameron & Victorian Photography (London: Aurum Press, 2003) |
| Olusoga, David | Civilisations – First Contact: The Cult of Progress (London: Profile Books, 2018) |
| Pemble, John (ed.) | Miss Fane in India: The Indian Diary of a Victorian Lady (London: A Sutton, 1984) |
| Ray, G. (ed) | The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray collected and edited by Gordon Ray Vol I 1817 -1840 (London: OUP, 1945) |
| Spencer, Alfred (ed.) | The Memoirs of William Hickey (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1913-1925. 4 volumes) |
| Stirling, A.M.W. | A Painter of Dreams (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1916) |
| Sykes, Laura (ed.) | Calcutta through British Eyes 1690-1990 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) |
| Tayler, William | Thirty-Eight Years in India (London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1881) Vol. 1. |
| Taylor, D. J. | Thackeray (London: Chatto & Windus, 1999) |
| Tromans, Nicholas | The Art of G.F. Watts (London: Paul Hoberton Publishing, 2017) |
| Troubridge, Laura | Memories and Reflections (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925) |
| Vaughan, Ellen Twisleton (ed.) | Letters of the Hon. Mrs. Edward Twisleton 1852-1862 (privately printed 1925) |
| Ward, Chloe | The Drawings of G.F. Watts (London and New York: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2016) |
| Watts, M.S. | George Frederic Watts: The Annals of an Artist’s Life (London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1912. 3 volumes) |
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs Dalloway (London: Penguin, 1991) (MD) The Years (Oxford: The World’s Classics, OUP, 1992 (TY) To the Lighthouse (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, OUP, 2006) (TtL) |
Abbreviations for frequently used texts
D 1-5 Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volumes 1-5 (London: Hogarth Press, 1977-84)
E 1-6 Andrew Mc Neillie (ed.), The Essays of Virginia Woolf Volumes 1-4; and Stuart Clarke (ed.) Volumes 5-6 (London: Hogarth Press, 1986-2011)
L 1-6 Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann (eds.), The Letters of Virginia Woolf Volumes 1-6 (London: Hogarth Press, 1975-80)
Sketch Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past in Jeanne Schulkind (ed.), Virginia Woolf Moments of Being (Pimlico: London, 2002)
VWB The Bulletin of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. Available on the Society web site