Hughes, Linda K. and Michael Lund. The Victorian Serial. Virginia UP, 1991. A study of the use of serial publication in the novel (as in the case of Bleak House.)

Mitchell, Sally, ed. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1988.

O'Gorman, Francis. The Victorian Novel. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. A fairly detailed history of criticism of the novel.

Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford UP, 1989. Biographies of Victorian novelists, and summaries of hundreds of novels, major and minor.

Weinre, Ben and Christopher Hibbert, eds. The London Encyclopaedia. New York : St. Martin's Press.