A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860

Sources and Reference Works

POP was compiled from the titles of penny books and periodical serials indexed in the following bibliographies. It links to the following digital collections of books, periodicals, plays, and playbills for full text access when available.

POP also references the following manuscript collections and links to the following digital reference works for further information on the plays, authors, publishers, and periodicals related to penny bloods.

All websites require subscription, unless otherwise noted.

Bibliographies

Abbreviation	Source
Bleiler	Bleiler, Everett Franklin. "Bibliography" in Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf. New York: Dover Publications, 1975.
Block	Block, Andrew. The English novel, 1740-1850. London: Dawsons, 1961.
James	James, Louis. Fiction for the working man, 1830-1850; a study of the literature produced for the working classes in early Victorian urban England. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.
James & Smith	James, Elizabeth and Helen R. Smith. Penny dreadfuls and boys' adventures : the Barry Ono Collection of Victorian popular literature in the British Library. London: British Library, 1998.
King	King, Andrew. Index of Serials in The London Journal: First series, 1845-1883, volumes I-LXXVIII. 2008.
Medcraft	Medcraft, John. Bibliography of the penny bloods of Edward Lloyd. Dundee: privately printed (by J.A. Birkbeck.), 1945.
Sadleir	Sadleir, Michael. XIX Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Record Based on His Own Collection. London: Constable & Co., 1951.
Summers	Summers, Montague. A Gothic bibliography. London: Fortune Press, 1941.
Wiener	Wiener, Joel H. A Descriptive Finding List of Unstamped British Periodicals, 1830-1836. London: Bibliographical Society, 1970.

Digital Collections

Pictogram	Website
	"19th Century British Library Newspapers", Gale
	"19th Century UK Periodicals", Gale
	"British Periodicals", Chadwyck-Healey
	East London Theatre Archive (open access)
	Google Books (open access)
	HathiTrust (limited access)
	The Internet Archive (open access)
	Victorian Plays Project (open access)

Manuscript Collections

Abbreviation	Source
LC	Lord Chamberlain's Plays. (British Library, Additional Manuscripts 42865-43038)
RLF	Archive of the Royal Literary Fund. (British Library, Western Manuscripts, Loan 96 RLF)

References

Pictogram	Website
	British Book Trade Index (open access)
	British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception (open access)
	Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in the Nineteenth Century Index
	The Literary Encyclopedia
	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
	Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals
	Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 in the Nineteenth Century Index