Here’s a list of the books I’ve read during my research for the Penny Green Series. I also use the British Newspaper Archive.
Happy reading!
A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain by Michael Patterson
A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup
A Thousand Miles up the Nile by Amelia Edwards
A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley
Alice Diamond And The Forty Elephants: Britain’s First Female Crime Syndicate by Brian Macdonald
Ancient Egypt: the Glory of the Pharaohs (audiobook) by David Angus
Confessions of an Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincy
Dickens’s Dictionary of London 1888
Dottings of a Dosser by Howard Goldsmid
Drugging a Nation: The Story of China and the Opium Curse by Samuel Merwin
Dying for Victorian Medicine, English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor by Elizabeth T. Hurren
Egypt: handbook for travellers, 1885 – 92 by Karl Baedeker
In an Opium Factory by Rudyard Kipling
Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide by Arnold Bennett
London a Travel Guide through Time by Dr Matthew Green
London in 1880 by Herbert Fry
London in the Nineteenth Century by Jerry White
Mord Em’ly by William Pitt Ridge
Mrs Woolf & the Servants by Alison Light
Researches Into the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism by Sir William Crookes
Revelations of a Lady Detective by William Stephens Hayward
Seventy Years a Showman by Lord George Sanger
Sickness and Cruelty in the Workhouse – The True Story of a Victorian Workhouse Doctor by Joseph Rogers
Sister Sleuths by Nell Darby
Tales from the Workhouse – True Tales from the Depths of Poverty by James Greenwood, Mary Higgs and others
The Bitter Cry of Outcast London by Andrew Mearns
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking by Simon Singh,
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper by Philip Sugden,
The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant edited by Liz Stanley
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
The Maul and the Pear Tree by P.D. James
The Napoleon of Crime by Ben Macintyre
The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin
The Pinkertons: The Detective Dynasty That Made History by James D Horan
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter by Albert Millican
Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Barbara Onslow