Theories of Gender
- Attitudes toward sexuality and sexual identity
- Images of women
- The Female Body in the Nineteenth Century — Primary & Secondary Materials
- Feminity and femaleness in E. B. Browning and Dickens
- Issues of Victorian Masculinity
- The Struggle for Manhood in Victorian Fiction: Introduction
Political and social history
- Political History
- The Battle for Women's Suffrage — a Timeline
- Social History
- Women's social and economic status: class and occupation
- Eneas Dallas on Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc's Essays on Women's Work
- Pregnancy and Childbirth
- The Birth Control Movement
- Bigamy
- Prostitution
- The Contagious Diseases Act
- Divorce in the Victorian Period
- Octavia Hill — Housing and Social Reformer, and Environmental Campaigner
- Review of The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture (largely focused on women's roles and women authors)
- Emily Faithfull, Pioneering Publisher, Journalist and Women's Activist
- Arthur Munby, Cross-Dressing and Lesbianism
- A Review of Rodney Bolt's As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
- An Unequal MarriageI Edward White Benson and Mary Sidgwick Benson
- "My God, What a Woman!"; Glimpses of Mary Benson
- A Review of Michael Du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield's Dr James, Barry, a Woman ahead of Her Time
- Punch, the London Charivari on Gender Matters
Travelling and exploring
Religion
Literature and the arts
- Women authors
- Women and literature
- The New Woman Fiction
- Calling into Question the Concept and Practice of the Literary Canon
- Women and Reading in Victorian England
- Visual Arts
- The Woman in the Frame: Victorian Painting, Ekphrastic Poetry, and the Female Gaze
- Becoming Heroines: Protest and Paradigm in Victorian Fiction (6-part essay)
- Romance in Victorian Culture: Secret Liaisons and the Waiting Woman in Illustration, Painting and Literature
- Rebecca Solomon as a Social Activist
- Rebecca Solomon and Women: A Feminist Reading
- [Dickens's] Kate Nickleby and the #MeToo Movement
- Anne Lister ("Gentleman Jack") and the Brontës
Science and technology
- Women and Science
- Victorian Theories of Biology and Gender: A Bibliography
- Nineteenth-century science
- Technology
Resources
- Works about Victorian Women, Double Standards, Public/Private Spheres, Gender, & Sexuality
- Specialized Bibliographies
- Reviews of books on Gender Matters
- Related Resources
Last modified 27 November 2025