Biographical Materials
- Biographical Essay
- Photograph of Charles Lever in Later Life
- Blue Plaque for Charles Lever on 22a The Promenade, Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
- Unveiling the Charles Lever Blue Plaque in Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
- Henry Thomas Ryall's stipple engraving based on Samuel Lover's 1840 portrait of Lever, and the original title-page of Jack Hinton, The Guardsman (1842).
Works
- List of Writings (1839-72)
- Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon (1841)
- The Martins of Cro' Martin (1854-56)
- Charles Lever's Swindler as Hero in Davenport Dunn (1858-59)
- A Synopsis of Charles Lever's Barrington (1863)
Literary Relations: Early and Mid-Victorian Fiction
Religion and Philosophy
Social and Political Contexts
- Victorianism
- Victorian Ireland
- The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1801-1855 & the 27 March-24 April 1857 election in Lever's Davenport Dunn
- Charles Lever's characters discuss the new Divorce Law, September 1857, in Davenport Dunn
- Victorian Social and Political History
Economics
- Railway Mania
- Hudson the Railway King
- The "Stain Cast upon Our Age and Our Civilization": The Harm Davenport Dunn did to Britain
- Real and Fictional Swindlers of the 1850s: Sadleir, Merdle, and Dunn
Artistic Relations
- Phiz's Illustrations for Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon (1841)
- Phiz's Illustrations for Jack Hinton, The Guardsman (1842)
- Phiz's forty illustrations by Phiz for the nineteen monthly numbers of Charles Lever's Roland Cashel (May 1848-November 1849)
- Phiz's Illustrations for Roland Cashel (1850)
- Phiz's Illustrations for The Martins of Cro' Martin (1856)
- Phiz's Illustrations for Davenport Dunn (1859)
- The Dark Plates for Davenport Dunn
- William Newman's Plates for Charles Lever's A Day's Ride: A Romance of Life (1860)
- Illustrations by Phiz for A Day's Ride; or, The Romance of Life (1862)
- Phiz's Illustrations for Barrington (1863)
- Phiz: "A Good Hand at a Horse" — A Gallery and Brief Overview of Phiz's Illustrations of Horses for Defoe, Dickens, Lever, and Ainsworth (1836-64)
- Fildes' Eighteen Illustrations for Lord Kilgobbin (1872)
Individual Scenes from Various Lever Novels (1839-68)
- Scene from Harry Lorrequer by Phiz: The Supper at Father Malachi's (1839)
- Scene from Charles O'Malley by Phiz: The Sunk Fence (1841)
- Scene from Charles O'Malley by Phiz: Mr. Crow well plucked
- Scene from Roland Cashel by Phiz: A Meeting Under the Greenwood Tree (1850)
- Scene from Roland Cashel by Phiz: The Picture Gallery — Sir Andrew Puzzled
- Scene from Roland Cashel by Phiz: A Prairie-evening Ride
- Scene from The Martins of Cro' Martin by Phiz: Old Mat's Last Resting-Place (1856)
- Scene from The Bramleighs of Bishop’s Folly by Mary Ellen Edwards: At the Cottage (1868)
- Scene from The Bramleighs of Bishop’s Folly by Mary Ellen Edwards: The Curate Cross-Examined
Bibliography
Buchanan-Brown, John. Phiz! The Book Illustrations of Hablot Knight Browne. London, Newton Abbot, and Vancouver: David and Charles, 1978.
Cambridge Biographical Dictionary, ed. Magnus Magnusson and Rosemary Goring. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
"Charles Lever: The Lost Victorian." http://members.lycos,co.uk/charleslever/summary.htm
Downey, Edmund. Charles Lever: His Life in Letters. 2 vols. london; William Blackwood, 1906.
Fitzpatrick, W. J. The Life of Charles Lever. London: Downey, 1901.
Haddelsey, S. P. Charles Lever: The Lost Victorian — A Critical Vindication. London: Colin Smythe, 2000.
Lester, Valerie Browne. Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens. London: Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Lever, Charles. Barrington. With 26 illustrations by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, 1863.
_______. The Daltons; or, Three Roads in Life. Illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, 1852, rpt. 1872.
_______. Davenport Dunn: A Man of Our Day. Illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, rpt. 1872.
_______. A Day's Ride; A life's Romance. Illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, 1863, rpt. George Routledge, 1878.
_______. A Day's Ride: A Life's Romance. London: Chapman and Hall, 1873.
_______. Davenport Dunn: A Man of Our Day. Illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne) with 44 illustrations. London: George Routledge, 1877.
_______. A Day's Ride. Harper's Weekly. New York: 1860; All the Year Round. London: 1860.
_______. Jack Hinton, The Guardsman. Illustrated by Hablột Knight Browne (Phiz). London: Downey & Co., 1901. [First published serially in The Dublin University Magazine January through December 1842; and subsequently in a single volume, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. December 1842, pp. 396. Illustrated with wood and steel engravings by H. K. Browne. 8vo, 396pp. Boston: Little, Brown, 1894; New York: Croscup, 1894. 2 vols.
_______. The Martins of Cro' Martin. With illustrations by Phiz. 2 vols. London: Chapman & Hall, 1856, rpt. London & New York: Routledge, 1873.
Muir, Percy. Victorian Illustrated Books. London: B. T. Batsford, 1971.
Robb, George. White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845-1929. Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 2002.
Stevenson, Lionel. Dr. Quicksilver: The Life of Charles Lever. New York: Russell & Russell, 1939, rpt. 1969.
Sutherland, John. "Davenport Dunn." The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford U. P., 1989. Page 172.
Sutherland, John. "Lever, Charles (James)." The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford U. P., 1989. Pp. 372-74.
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