Charles Dickens Web Sites

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Talking to Charles Dickens  - This web site features questions about Dickens answered by Dickens Experts.  See if your question is one of them listed.
http://www.talkingto.co.uk/talkingto/ttcd/html/ttcd_answ_cate.asp?AuthorID=5

The Dickens Page - This site lists many many areas of interest on Charles Dickens.
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html

The Charles Dickens Web - This site has many links to information about Dicken's works, life and family, and about the London he knew.

Charles Dickens Page - This site lists many areas of interest on Dickens including a timeline and some fun stuff such as "Charles Dickens Quiz" and "Hunt for Charles Dickens."

Victorian Web Authors: Dickens - Features Dickens biography including a critical overview of his major biographies, works, and career.

Victorian Station: Dickens 

 

Victorian Sites

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Victorian Dictionary - This site has a great index; click on the links in the box on the left-hand side of the homepage to get to your topic.

The Victorian Web - This site developed at Brown University has many valuable sources of information on many different topics.

Victorian Station - A guide to all things Victorian -- architecture, history, lifestyle, and more. Created and maintained by Victorian enthusiasts as an information and shopping resource.

Victorian Fashions - This site includes 30 hand-painted Victorian fashion plates.

Some Pictures of Victorian London  

What's a Guinea?  Money and Coinage in Victorian Britain

Virtual Victorians - This UK site, developed by the University of Exeter and the Tiverton Museum, allows visitors to explore Victorian Life in different ways, including a "week in the life" journal that features both the male and female perspective and a "Themes" gallery that allows viewing and virtual handling of a wide variety of Victorian artifacts.

Research Projects - These Projects are found on The City As Hero site created by Prof. Susan R. Horton from the English Department at University of Massachusetts at Boston - http://www.gober.net/victorian/

• Utilitarianism by Paul Roach
• The Luddites by Felix Silverio
• Housing by Deb Taft
• Diet, Health, and Sanitation by Mark Sheehan
• Irish Immigration to London by Mary Johnston
• Working Conditions/Child Labour/"Slopwork" by Felix Silverio
• Crime by Lea Smalls
• Childhood Mortality by Mary Johnston
• Childhood by Cathy Edgar
• Urban Expansion by Nancy Finnerty
• Religion, Class & Politics: "High Church" and Evangelicalism by Jimmy Yi
• Education (Upper/Working class/male/female) by Deb Taft
• Public sages, Lecturing and Mechanics' Institutes by Jimmy Yi
• Mesmerism and Other Parapsychologies by Paul Roach
• The Colonies in 19th century fiction by Lisa Connell
• Shops and Shopping by Mark Sheehan
• The Railroad, its Place in Dombey and "Urban Renewal" by Nancy Finnerty
• A Division of Labor: How Dickens' Fiction and Journalism Work Together

by Michael Dube

Evaluation of Web Sites  - This tutorial introduces techniques for judging the value of Web sites for research purposes.
http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les1/index.html

Please use this guide sheet when evaluating web sites.