Shakespeare Editions
Faakes, R. A. (ed.): Arden Henry VIII, 1955.
Pooler, C. Knox (ed.): Arden Shakespeare, Henry VIII, 1909.
Margeson, John (ed.): The Cambridge Henry VIII, 1990.
Richmond, Hugh M.: Shakespeare in Performance: Henry VIII, 1994.
Pollard, A. E. (ed.): Henry VIII, 1970.
Pafford, J.H.P. (ed.): Arden Winter's Tale, 1963.
Hammond, Antony (ed.): Arden Shakespeare: Richard III, 1981.

Romantic Views on Elizabethan Drama
Lamb, Charles: Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived About the Time of Shakespeare, with Extracts from the Garrick Plays, 1808.
Knight, Charles: Shakespeare's Works, 1840.
Zeittin, J. (ed.): Hazlitt on English Literature, 1913.
Caldwell, John (ed.): Charles Lamb on Shakespeare.
Baker, Henry Barton: Our Old Actors, 1881.
Shakespeare, W. (Malone, Edmund ed.): Plays and Poems, Vol. XIV, 1821.

Books About Shakespeare
Hardon, Craig: An Interpretation of Shakespeare, 1948.
Knight, G. Wilson: 'A Note on Henry VIII,' Criterion, January 1936.
Shirley, Francis A. (ed.): Henry VIII: Critical Essays, 1988.
Spedding, J.: 'On the Several Shares of Shakespeare and Fletcher in the Play of Henry VIII," New Shakespeare Society Transactions, series 1, part 1, 1974.
Nicholson, M. H.: 'The Authorship of Henry VIII,' Modern Language Association of America, 1922.
Thorndike, Ashley H.: Shakespeare's Theatre, 1960.
Campbell, Lily B.: Shakespeare's "Histories": Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy, 1947.
Ribner, Irving: The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare, 1957.
Norwich, John Julius: Shakespeare's Kings, 1999.
Knowles, Ronald; Shakespeare's Arguments with History, 2002.

Renaissance Literature
Hudson, Jonathan (ed.): George Chapman, Plays and Poems, 1998.
Bacon, Francis: Essays.
Macdonald, Richard H. (ed.): William Drummond of Hawthornden, Poems and Prose, 1976.
Norbrook, David (intro.), H.R. Woudhuysen (ed.): Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509 - 1659.
Marlowe, Christopher: Tamberlaine the Great I, 1955.
Faerie Queen.

British History Before the Renaissance
Perrin, W. G.: British Flags, 1922.
James, William: The Naval History of Great Britain, Vol. IV, 1837.
Fields, Bertram: Royal Blood: King Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes, 2000.
Artherson, Ian: The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy, 1491 - 1499, 1994.
Gardiner, James: History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third, 1879.
Thomson, John A. F.: The Transformation of Medieval England: 1370 - 1529, 1983.
Horrox, Rosemary: Richard III: A Study of Service, 1989.
Goodman, Anthony: The War of the Roses: Military Activity and English Society, 1452 - 97, 1981.
Clemoes, Peter and Hughes, Kathleen (eds.): England Before the Conquest: Studies in primary sources presented to Dorothy Whitelock, 1971.
Bartlett, Robert: England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075 - 1225, 2000.
Adam, R. J.: A Conquest of England: The Coming of the Normans, 1965.
Bennett, Martyn: The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland: 1638 - 1657, 1997.
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, Everyman, 1958.
Fryde, Natalie; The Tyrrany and Fall of Edward II, 1321 - 1326, 1979.

Renaissance History
Yates: The Rosicrucian Enlightenment.
Wooton: Reliquiae Woottoniae, third ed., 1672.
Somerset, Anne: Elizabeth I, 1991.
Ives, E. W.: Anne Boleyn, 1986.
Hoskins, W. G.: The Age of Plunder: King Henry's England 1500 - 1547, 1976.
Guy, John (ed.): The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade, 1995.
Mee, Arthur: The King's England: Northamptonshire, 1915.
Hume, Martin: The Wives of Henry the Eighth; and the parts they played in history.
Gwyn, Peter: The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey, 1990.
McGoldrick, J. E.: Luther's English Connection, 1979.
Demans, Rev. R.: William Tyndale, A Biography, 1886.
Hall, Basil: Humanists and Protestants 1500 - 1900, 1990.
Lacey, Robert: Sir Walter Raleigh, 2000.
Dunn, Jane: Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens, 2003.
Brooks, Eric St John: Sir Christopher Hatton, 1946.

Reformation and the English Republic
Gardiner, Samuel Rawson: The Fall of the Monarchy of Charles I, 1637 - 1649, 1882.
Barber, Sarah: Regicide and Republicanism: Politics and Ethics in the English Revolution, 1649 - 1659, 1998.
Bence-Jones, Mark: The Cavaliers, 1976.
Ridley, Jasper: The Roundheads, 1976.
Fraser, Antonia: Cromwell: Our Chief of Men, 1973.
Vaughan, Alden T. (ed.): The Puritan Tradition in America: 1620 - 1730, 1972.
Collinson, Patrick: Goodly People: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism, 1983.
Aston, Margaret and Richmond, Colin (eds.): Lollardy and the Gentry in the Late Middle Ages, 1997.
Kaminsky, Howard: A History of the Hussite Revolution, 1967.
Hudson, Anne: The Premature Revolution: Wycliffe Texts and Lollard History, 1988.
Atherton, Ian: Ambition and Failure in Stuart England: The Career of John, First Viscount Scudamore, 1999.
Simmons, K. C.: The American Colonies: From Settlement to Independence, 1976.
Sosin, J. M.: English America and Imperial Inconstancy: The Rise of Provincial Autonomy 1696 - 1715, 1985.
Francis, Richard: Ann the Word: The Story of Ann Lee, Female Messaih, Mother of the Shakers, the Woman Clothed with the Sun.
Rushworth, John: Historical Collection of Private Passages of State, 1680.

18th Century History and People
Smith, E. A.: George IV.
Lloyd, Peter: The French Are Coming!
Ward, R.: Georgian Oxford: University Politics in the Eighteenth Century, 1958.
Sanecki, Kay N.: Humphrey Repton, 1974.
Hyams, Edward: Capability Brown and Humphrey repton, 1971.
Lewis: Journals of a West Indian Proprietor, 1834.
Kronenberger, Louis: The Extraordinary Mr Wilkes, 1974.
Ayling, Stanley: Edmund Burke: His Life and Opinions, 1988.
Ayling, Stanley; Fox: The Life of Charles James Fox, 1991.
Thomas, D. O.: The Honest Mind: The Thought and Work of Richard Price, 1977.
Turnbull, Patrick: Warren Hastings, 1975.
Popham, Frederick W.: A West Country Family: the Pophams from 1150, 1976.
Holt, Anne: Life of Joseph Priestly, 1931.
Thomas, Peter D. G: John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty, 1996.
James, William: The Naval History of Great Britain from the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV, 1837.
Norris, John: Shelburne and Reform, 1963.
Hall, Hugh Gaston: Richelieu's Desmarets and the Century of Louis XIV, 1990.
White, Rev. Gilbert: The Natural History of Selbourne.
Hamilton, Anthony: Memoirs of Count Grammont.
Wilkes, John: Essay on Woman, 1871.
Furel, Francois: The French Revolution: 1770 - 1814, Nevill, Antonia (Trans.), 1988.

Admiral Nelson and Emma Hamilton
Turquan, Joseph and D'Auriac, Jules: A Great Adventuress: Lady Hamilton and the Revolution in Naples (1753 - 1815), 1914.
Lofts, Norah: Emma Hamilton, 1978.
d'Auvergne, Edmund: Dear Emma: The Story of Emma Lady Hamilton her Husband and Her Lovers, 1936.
Hibbert, Christopher; Nelson: A Personal History, 1994.
Walder, Daria: Nelson, 1978.

James Boswell
Pottle, Frederick A. (ed.): Boswell in Holland, 1763 - 1764.
Pottle, Frederiock A. (ed.): Boswell's London Journal, 1762 - 1763, 1951.
Pottle, Frederick A. (ed.): Boswell in Holland, 1764.
Boswell, James: Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1867.
Johnson & Boswell: Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, 1951.

The East India Company, Travel and British Sailors
Dhar, Niranjan: The Administrative System of the East India Company in Bengal 1714 - 1786, Vol. 1: Political, 1964.
Weitzman: Warren Hastings and Philip Francis, 1929.
Bernstein, Jeremy: Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings, 2000.
Sutherland, Lucy: The East India Company in 18th Century Politics, 1952.
Bose, Nemai Sadhani: The Indian Awakening and Bengal, 1960.
Moon, Penderel: Warren Hastings and British India, 1947.
Robbins, Helen H.: Our First Ambassador to China: An Account of the Life of George, Earl of Macartney, with Extracts of His Letters, and the Narrative of His Experiences in China, as Told by Himself, 1737 - 1806, 1908.
Barrow, Sir John: A Voyage to Cochin China, 1975.
Dhar, Niranjan: The Administrative System of the East India Company in Bengal 1774 - 1786, Vol 2: Judicial, 1966.
Qureshi Ishtaq Hussein: The Administration of the Mughal Empire, 1966.
Ruthnaswamy, M.: Some Influences That Made the British Administration in India, 1939.
Bose, Pramatha Nath: A History of Hindu Civilisation During British Rule, Vol. I, Religious Condition, 1975.
Bose, Pramatha Nath: A History of Hindu Civilisation During British Rule, Vol. II, Social-Religious Condition, Social Condition, Industrial Condition, 1975.
Barrow, Sir John: Life of Richard Earl Howe KG, 1838.
Roy, Naresh Chandra: The Civil Service in India, 1958.
Wolpert, Samuel: A New History of India, 2000.

English Literature Anthologies
Sutherland, James: English Literature of the Late 17th Century, 1969.
Dobree, Bonamy: English Literarure in the Early 18th Century, 1700 - 1740, 1959.
Butt, John (ed.): Oxford History of English Literature, The Mid-Eighteenth Century, 1979.
Bush, Douglas: English Literature in the Earlier 17th Century, 1600 - 1660, 1945.
Bush, Douglas: English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600 - 1660, 2nd edition, 1962.

18th Century Prose
Bate, W. J., Bullitt, John M., Powell, L. F. (eds.): The Idler and The Adventurer, 1963.
Lamb, Charles: Eliza, 1963.
Carlyle, Thomas (Harrison, Frederic, ed.): Essays.
Macaulay: Essays.
Lamb, Charles: Plays, Poems and Essays, 1888.
Patton, Lewis (ed.): Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lectures 1795 On Politics and Religion, 1971.
Patton, Lewis (ed.): The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Watchman, 1970.
Coleridge, S. T.: The Friend, Vol. 1, Collected Works. Rooke, Barbara E. (ed.), 1969.
Cobbett, William (selected and introduced by Ingrams, Richard): Cobbett's Country Book: An Anthology of William Cobbett's Writings on Country Matters.
Williams, Helen Maria: Letters from France, 1790.
The Tatler.
The Spectator.

18th Century Novels
Defoe, Daniel: Memoirs of a Cavalier, Boulton, James (ed.), 1981.
Radcliffe, Anne; The Italian, 1797.
Scott, Walter: Guy Mannering, 1815.
Beckford, William (Lonsdale, Roger ed.): Vathek, 1970.
Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy.
Marryat, Captain: Midshipman Easy.
Sheridan, Frances: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulf.
Lennox, Charlotte: The Female Quixote: The Adventures of Arabella, 1752.
Scott, Walter: The Old English Baron, 1977.
Lady Morgan: The Wild Irish Girl, 1806.
Moore, John: Mordaunt, 1800.
Galt, John: Annals of the Parish, 1976.
Smith, Charlotte: Desmond, (ed. w. introd. and notes by Blank, Antje and Todd, Janet), 1997.
Scott, Walter: Guy Mannering.

18th Century Writers
Wollstonecraft, Mary: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters; with reflections on Female Conduct in The more important Duties of Life, 1787.
Millgate, Jane: Walter Scott: The Making of a Novelist, 1984.
Sutherland, John: The Life of Walter Scott, 1995.
Norton, Rictor: Mistress of Udolpho: the Life of Ann Radcliffe, 1999.
Warner, Oliver: Captain Marryat: A Rediscovery, 1953.
Macauley Graham, Catharine: Letters on Education; with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects, 1790.
Swift: Essays.
Ross, Ian Campbell: Laurence Sterne: A Life, 2001.
Paulson, Ronald: The Life of Henry Fielding: A Critical Biography, 2000.
Thomas, Donald: Henry Fielding, 1990.
Tompkins, J. M. S.: The Popular Novel in England: 1770 - 1800, 1932.
Marshall, Peter H.: William Godwin, 1984.

Horace Walpole
Lewis, W. S. (ed.): Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Vol. 22, 1960.
Sabor, Peter (ed.): Horace Walpole: The Critical Heritage, 1987.
Walpole, Horace (W.S. Lewis, ed.): Corresopndence with the Countess of Upper Ossory, III, 1965.

18th Century Drama and Playwrights
Sheridan: Dramatic Works, 1939.
Kelly, Linda: The Kemble Era, 1980.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: School For Scandal and Other Plays, Cordner, Michael (ed.), 1998.
Baker, Herschel: John Philip Kemble: His Life and Times, 1942.
Egan, Pierce: The Life of an Actor, 1824.
Campbell, Thomas: Richard Cumberland's The Wheel of Fortune, 1987.
Malek, James S. (ed.): The Plays of John Home, 1980.
Jordan, Robert (ed.): The Works of Thomas Southern, 1988.
Hunter, J. Paul (ed.): The Plays of Edward Moore, 1983.

18th Century Poetry
Ketcham, Carl H.: Cornell Wordsworth: Shorter Poems, 1807 - 1820, 1989.
Forman, E. B. (ed.): The Poetical Works of John Keats, 1898.
Cook, Elizabeth (ed.): Oxford Keats, 1990.
Wordsworth, William: Poems, In Two Volumes 1800 - 1807, 1983.
Pope: Rape of the Lock.
Smith, David Nichol (ed.): The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, 1926.
Lamb, Charles (introd. and notes by Alfred Ainger): Poems, Plays and Miscellaneous Essays, 1888.
Goldsmith, Oliver: Poems and Plays, 1910.
Cowper, William (William Benham ed.): Poetical Works, 1874.
Dearing, Vinton A. (ed.): John Gay: Poetry and Prose, 1974.
Scott, Walter: Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1885.

18th Century Poets
Coleridge, S. T. (ed.): Biographia Leteraria, 1906.
Holmes, Richard: Shelley: The Pursuit, 1995.
Storey, Mark: Robert Southey: A Life, 1999.
Woodman, Thomas (ed.): Early Romantics: Prospectives in British Poetry from Pope to Wordsworth.
Curran, Stuart (ed.): The Poems of Charlotte Smith, 1993.
Rourke, Richard: Romantic Discourse and Political Modernity: Wordsworth, the Intellectual and Cultural Critique, 1993.
De Quincey, Thomas (Wright, David, ed.): Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets, 1970.
King, James and Ryskamp, Charles (eds.): The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 1, (1750 - 1781), 1979.
Scott, Walter (ed.): The Poetical Works of Anna Seward, Vol. 1, 1810.
King, James and Ryskamp, Charles (eds.): The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. II, 1782 - 1786, 1981.
Barker, Juliet: Wordsworth: A Life, 2000.
De Selincourt (ed.): The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years 1787 - 1805, Vol. I, 1967.
Fletcher, Loraine: Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography, 1998.
Gill, Stephen: Wordsworth and the Victorians, 1998.
Quennel, Peter: Byron: The Years of Fame; Byron in Italy, 1974.
Fletcher, Loraine: Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography, 1998.

George Crabbe
Sigworth, Oliver F.: Nature's painter: Five Essays on the Poetry of George Crabbe, 1965.
Pollard, A.: Crabbe: The Critical Heritage, 1972.
Chamberlain, Robert L.: George Crabbe, 1965.
Huchon, Rene: George Crabbe and His Times 1754 - 1832, 1907.
Crabbe, George: Poems 1807.
Crabbe: The Life of George Crabbe By His Son, 1934.
Bareham, Terence: George Crabbe, 1977.
Kebbel, T. C.: Life of George Crabbe, 1888.
Edwards, Gavin: George Crabbe's Poetry on Border Land, 1990.
Blackburne, Neville: The Restless Ocean: The Story of George Crabbe The Aldburgh Poet 1754 - 1832, 1972.
Hatch, Ronald B.: Crabbe's Arabesque: Social Drama in the Poetry of George Crabbe, 1976.

Thomas Love Peacock
Jonkovsky, Nicholas A. (ed.): The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, 2001.
Van Doren, Carl: Life of Thomas Love Peacock, 1911.
Halliford, T. L. P (ed.): Thomas Love Peacock: Critical and Other Essays, 1967.
Priestly, J. B.: Thomas Love Peacock, 1927.
Peacock, Thomas Love: Works, AMS Press, 1967.

19th Century Poetry and Poets
Henderson, Philip: Swinburne: The Portrait of A Poet, 1974.

Jane Austen
Hubback, J. H.: Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers, 1906.
Roberts, Warren: Jane Austen and the French Revolution, 1979.
Southern, Brian: Jane Austen and the Navy, 2000.
Le Faye, Dierdre: Jane Austen: A Family Record, 1989.
Lynch, Dierdre (ed.): Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees, 2000.
Hodge, Jane Aiken: The Double Life of Jane Austen, 1972.
Lane, Maggie: Jane Austen's Family, 1984.
Williams, Michael: Jane Austen: Six Novels and Their Methods, 1986.
Nokes, David: Jane Austen: A Life, 1997.
Tomalin, Clare: Jane Austen: A Life, 1997.
Jones, Ann H.: Ideas and Innovations: Best Sellers of Jane Austen's Age, 1986.
Honan, Park: Jane Austen: Her Life, 1997.
Halperin, John: The Life of Jane Austen, 1984.
Selwyn, David: Jane Austen and Leisure, 1999.
Tuite, Clara: Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon, 2002.