Nead , Linda. "The Layering of Pleasure: Women, Fashionable Dress and Visual Culture in the mid-Nineteenth Century.

" Nineteenth-Century Contexts 35:5 (December 2013): 489-509. This article will be applied directly to the topic of Victorian fashion for women. Nead uses the different layers of a traditional womans outfit to explain physical functionality and the changing roles of women during the period. Also included within the article are primary source illustrations which demonstrate Victorian fashion ideals and customs. Not only will this source be helpful in explaining the complexities of fashion during the Victorian era, but it will shed light on the symbolic significance that the clothing had in that culture.

Neff, Wanda Fraiken. Victorian Working Women. New York: AMS Press Inc., 1966. This book deals with the broad topic of the working woman in Victorian England in chapters that pertain to different possible professions. In approaching the topic of women in the workplace, the project will draw from the chapters on women as textile workers, non-textile workers, dressmakers, and governesses. The book also treats the topic of the idle female, which was prevalent among the upper and lower middle classes as well as the aristocracy. This source will provide a good basis for examining the role of consumerism on the working Victorian woman.

Kane, Penny. Victorian Families in Fact and Fiction. New York: St. Martins Press Inc., 1995. This book studies the different arenas of home-life for Victorian women. It draws from Victorian literature in showing that these fictions reflect the true nature of Victorian society in the areas of marriage, birth, childhood, education and literacy, and even the life of a single girl.

This will be a crucial source for the examination of how consumerism affected the family structure and, in turn, womens roles within the family and society at large.

Houston, Gail Turley. Consuming Fictions: Gender, Class, and Hunger in Dickens Novels. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. This source deals thoroughly with the concept of consumption in both the literal sense and the economic sense. Using works from Dickens, it explores the topics of consumption in relation to gender and self-starvation through both anorexia and suppression of emotional desire. Though it draws from literary evidence, it presents these works as representative of their times and as critiques of the culture for which these issues with consumption were very real. For the topic of anorexia as influenced by consumerism, this book will provide a good basis for study and evidence to pursue for further research.

Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. This book is a comprehensive study of a wide variety of issues within the topic of Victorian prostitution. Particularly useful to this project will be the sections dealing with the common prostitute in Victorian England and venereal disease. This will also be a helpful source in examining the progression of prostitution throughout the Victorian era and the various movements directed at reform. In the discussion of the effects of consumerism on society, this book will provide information on the social conditions and conflicted sexual standards that both produced and tried to cover up such a rapid rise in prostitution.

Altick, Richard D. Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1973. This book will be a valuable resource in establishing a basis for the condition of Victorian society in the topics that will be covered in this project. This source deals extensively with the Victorian era socially, politically, economically, and spiritually. Particularly helpful to this project will be its discourses on the position of women, the changes brought about by Industrialization, the Darwinian crisis, and the resulting state of the culture. This book provides a firm historical foundation from which to examine the changing Victorian society.

Sansom, William, Harold Chapman, and John Hillelson, Victorian Life in Photographs. London: Thames and Hudson, 1974. This book is comprised of primary-source photographs which give a visual testament to the aspects of Victorian society which this project seeks to examine. Its sections contain photographs presenting the life of Queen Victoria and the royal family, the technological and economic developments of the period, a typical life at home in the town and in the country, British legacy abroad, and special occasions in British life. The photographs compiled in this source will be used both as reference points for investigation and primary source images for the website.