A Bibliography for Historical Writers
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Joanna Bourne, Historical Romance
Joanna Bourne’s
Useful Bibliography for Writing Historical Language
Especially of the English Regency
General Resources:
The Oxford English Dictionary Online. https://www.oed.com/ It’s prohibitively expensive to subscribe to, but my be available through your school or city.
Partridge’s Slang and Unconventional English may be worth buying in hardback. Not online, but it’s inexpensive secondhand.
Etymology Online is a fast and accurate way to look up the origin of many words: https://www.thesaurus.com/
Merriam-Webster Dictionary is fast: https://www.merriam-webster.com/ https://www.merriam-webster.com/ Many online dictionary sites are good with date of word origin.
Google Advanced Book Search will tell you whether a word or phrase occurs in your period of interest. You see it in place in the book, so it also shows how the word or phrase is used, which is especially handy. https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search
Dictionaries, Mostly
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation Source, Or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that Have a Tale to Tell
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1905
Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected with the Addition of Numerous Slang Phrases Collected from Tried Authorities
Francis Grose, Pierce Egan 1823
A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume Work, Entitled: Slang and Its Analogues
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley 1905
There’s also a seven-volume set of this Farmer and Henley on Google Books
Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States
John Russell Bartlett 1860
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson 1755
English Synonyms: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from the Best Writers
George Crabb 1826
Regency Period Plays, Songs, Fiction, Letters, and Memoirs
The surprising adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, king of the beggars: containing his life–a dictionary of the cant language and many entertaining particulars of that extraordinary man
Robert Goadby 1812
John Bull: Or, The Englishman’s Fireside
George Colman 1803
The Universal Songster 1825
Letters of the Late Lord Lyttleton
William Combe 1807
Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Written During Her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa; to which are Added Poems by the Same Author. Stereotype Edition, According to the Press of Firmin Didot
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1800
Tom & Jerry: Life in London, Or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, in Their Rambles and Sprees Through the Metropolis
Pierce Egan 1821
Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism: From the days of the renowned Broughton and Slack, to the championship of Cribb
Pierce Egan 1830
The New London Spy; Or, a Modern Twenty-four Hours Ramble Through the Great British Metropolis
John Fielding 1794
Ben Brace: The Last of Nelson’s Agamemnons
Frederick Chamier 1840
Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone: Written by Himself. Comprising a Complete Journal of His Negotiations to Procure the Aid of the French for the Liberation of Ireland (Volume 2 of 2)
Theobald Wolfe Tone 1827
The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith
Harry Smith 1787-1860
The Letters of Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Byron’s Letters and Journals, Volumes 1 and 2
George Gordon Byron
The British Minstrel, and National Melodist: A Collection of the Most Esteemed and Popular English, Scottish, and Irish Songs, Duets, Catches, Chorusses, Glees, and Comic Recitations;
1827
The Vindictive Man: a Comedy, in Five Acts
Thomas Holcroft 1807
The Beggar’s Opera
John Gay 1728
The Clubs of London: With Anecdotes of Their Members, Sketches of Character, and Conversations
Charles Marsh 1828
Gleanings in Europe, Volumes 1 and 2
James Fenimore Cooper 1837
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57060
London Labour and the London Poor, Volumes 1, 2 and 3
Henry Mayhew 1840s
More Mornings at Bow Street: A New Collection of Humorous and Entertaining Reports
John Wight 1827
The New bon ton magazine, or Telescope of the times
1818
The Sportsman’s Calendar: Or, Monthly Remembrancer of Field Diversions
John Lawrence 1818
Thoughts upon hare and fox hunting, in a series of letters
Peter Beckford 1797
A Physical View of Man and Woman in a State of Marriage: With Anatomical Engravings, Volumes 1 and 2
M. de Lignac (trans. Louis François Luc) 1798
Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolkd
John Gobson Lockhart 1821
Letters of the Late Lord Lyttleton
William Combe 1807
Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Written During Her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa; to which are Added Poems by the Same Author. Stereotype Edition, According to the Press of Firmin Didot 1800
The memoirs of Fanny Hill
John Cleland 1749
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
Henry Fielding 1740
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe 1719
RITA-winning author Joanna Bourne writes historical fiction set in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and Regency England. It was a time of love and sacrifice, clashing ideals, and really cool clothing.
Source: http://jobourne.blogspot.com/2020/06/a-bibibliography-on-historical-writing.html
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