This page contains an ongoing and frequently updated bibliography of work in the field. Any inquiries related to this page can be directed to Joy Dixon.
General
Avery, Todd. “‘This Intricate Commerce of Souls’: The Origins and Some Early Expressions of Lytton Strachey’s Ethics.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 13, no. 2 (Apr. 2004): 183-207.
Bernstein, Susan David. Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Bristow, Joseph. “‘Love, let us be true to one another’: Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, and ‘our Aqueous Ages.’” Literature and History, Third Series 4, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 27-49.
Carpenter, Mary Wilson. Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003.
Dellamora, Richard. Apocalyptic Overtures: Sexual Politics and the Sense of an Ending. New Brunswick.: Rutgers University Press, 1994. See Introduction and Part One: Fin de Siècle, 1-28, 31-97.
________. “The Androgynous Body in Pater’s ‘Winckelmann.’” Browning Institute Studies 11 (1983): 51-68.
________. “Constituting the National Subject: Benjamin Disraeli, Judaism, and the Legacy of William Beckford.” In Mapping Male Sexuality: Nineteenth-Century England, edited by Jay Losey and William D. Brewer, 145-177. Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.
________. “Engendering Modernism: The Vernacular Modernism of Radclyffe Hall.” In Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-1930, edited by Lynne Hapgood and Nancy L. Paxton, 85-103. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan, 2000.
________. “Earnshaw’s Neighbor/Catherine’s Friend: Ethical Contingencies in ‘Wuthering Heights.’” ELH 74, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 535-555.
________. Friendship’s Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
________. Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. See Chapter 8: “‘The New Chivalry’ and Oxford Politics,” 147-166, f239-241.
Dixon, Joy. “Introduction” to special section on Religion & Sexuality. Victorian Review 37, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 41-45.
________. “Modernity, Heterodoxy, and the Transformation of Religious Cultures.” In Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, edited by Jacqueline de Vries and Sue Morgan, 211-30. London: Routledge, 2010.
Hanson, Ellis. Decadence and Catholicism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Hetherington, Naomi. ‘“A Jewish Robert Elsmere’? Amy Levy, Israel Zangwill and the Post-Emancipation Jewish Novel.” In Amy Levy: Critical Essays, edited by Naomi Hetherington and Nadia Valman, 180-197. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2010.
________. “New Woman, ‘New Boots’: Amy Levy as Child Journalist” in The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf, ed. Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster, 254-268. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Kern, Stephen. “When Did the Victorian Period End? Relativity, Sexuality, Narrative.” Journal of Victorian Culture 11, no. 2 (Autumn 2006): 326-338.
Logan, Peter Melville. Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.
Lovesey, Oliver. “Reconstructing Tess.” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 43, no. 4 (Autumn 2003): 913-938.
Mason, Michael. The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
________. The Making of Victorian Sexuality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Maynard, John. Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Melman, Billie. Women’s Orients, English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality, Religion, and Work. London: Macmillan, 1992.
Miller, Lori M. “The (Re)Gendering of High Anglicism.” In Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture, edited by Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, and Sue Morgan, 27-43. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Morgan, Sue. “‘The Word Made Flesh’: Women, Religion and Sexual Cultures.” In Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, edited by Jacqueline deVries and Sue Morgan. London: Routledge, 2010.
Robb, George. “The Way of All Flesh: Degeneration, Eugenics, and the Gospel of Free Love.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 6, no. 4 (Apr. 1996): 589-603.
Rochelson, Meri-Jane. “Edith Ayrton Zangwill and the Anti-Domestic Novel.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 36, no. 3 (2007): 161-183.
________. A Jew in the Public Arena: The Career of Israel Zangwill. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. See Chapter 3, “Children of the Ghetto,” 51-74; and Chapter 4, “A Jew at the Fin de Siècle,” 75-102.
________. “Masters and Messiahs: Religion, Sex, and Home in Two Works by Israel Zangwill.” Victorian Review 37, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 121-135.
Walker, Pamela J. “The Conversion of Rebecca Jarrett,” History Workshop Journal 58 (2004): 247-58.
Winter, Alison. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Alternative Spiritualities
Beaumont, Matthew. “Socialism and Occultism at the “Fin de Siècle”: Elective Affinities.” Victorian Review 36, no. 1 (2010): 217–32.
Dixon, Joy. Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
________. “‘Out of your clinging kisses … I create a new world’: Sexuality and Spirituality in the Work of Edward Carpenter.” In The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult, edited by Tatiana Kontou and Sarah Wilburn. London: Ashgate, 2012.
________. “Sexology and the Occult: Subjectivity and Sexuality in Theosophy’s New Age.” Journal of the History of the Sexuality 7, no. 3 (January 1997): 409-33.
Ferguson, Christine. Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Ferguson, Christine and Andrew Radford. The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947. New York and Florence: Routledge, 2017.
Gomel, Elana. “Spirits in the Material World: Spiritualism and Identity in the Fin De Siècle.” Victorian Literature and Culture 35, no. 1 (2007): 189–213.
Hall, Trevor H. The Spiritualists: The Story of Florence Cook and William Crookes. New York: Helix Press, 1963.
Hamilton, Trevor. Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian Search for Life after Death. Exeter, UK, Imprint Academic, 2009.
Hazelgrove, Jenny. Spiritualism and British Society between the Wars. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Kontou, Tatiana. Spiritualism and Women’s Writing: From the Fin de Siècle to the Neo-Victorian. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Lloyd, Naomi. “The Universal Divine Principle, the Spiritual Androgyne, and the New Age in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins.” Victorian Literature and Culture 37, no. 1 (March 2009): 177-196.
Massicotte, Claudie. Trance Speakers: Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Séances, 1850-1930. Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queen’s Press-MQUP, 2017.
Medd, Jodie. “Séances and Slander: Radclyffe Hall in 1920.” In Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and Modern English Culture, edited by Laura Doan and Jane Garrity, 201-216. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Naous, Mazen. “The Turn of the Gyres: Alterity in ‘The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid’and A Thousand and One Nights.” The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult, 2016, 197.
Oppenheim, Janet. The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England, Second Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004 [1989].
________. The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Raia-Grean, Courtenay. “Picturing the Supernatural: Spirit Photography, Radiant Matter, and the Spectacular Science of Sir William Crookes.” In Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830–1914: Modernity and the Anxiety of Representation in Europe, edited by Minsoo Kang and Amy Woodson-Boulton, 55–80. Farnham, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012.
Sutcliffe, Steven. “The Origins of ‘New Age’Religion Between the Two World Wars.” In Handbook of New Age, 51–76. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007.
Tromp, Marlene. Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012.
Willburn, Sarah A. Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings. London: Routledge, 2017.
The Body and The Self
Amigoni, David. “Translating the Self: Sexuality, Religion, and Sanctuary in John Addington Symond’s Cellini and other Acts of Life Writing.” Biography 32, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 161-172.
Bending, Lucy. The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. See Chapter 1, “Christian Understandings of Physical Suffering,” 5-51.
Booth, Howard J. “Male Sexuality, Religion and the Problem of Action: John Addington Symonds on Arthur Hugh Clough.” In Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture, edited by Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, and Sue Morgan, 116-133. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Brooke, Stephen. “The Body and Socialism: Dora Russell in the 1920s.” Past & Present 189 (November 2005): 147-177.
Dixon, Joy. “Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, Sexual Inversion (1897).” Victorian Review 35, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 72-77.
Fasick, Laura. “Charles Kingsley’s Scientific Treatment of Gender.” In Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age, edited by Donald E. Hall, 91-113. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
________. “The Seduction of Celibacy: Threats to Male Sexual Identity in Charles Kingsley’s Writings.” In Mapping Male Sexuality: Nineteenth-Century England, edited by Jay Losey and William D. Brewer, 215-232. Madison, Wisc.: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 2000.
Grey, Daniel J. R. “Gender, Religion, and Infanticide in Colonial India, 1870-1906.” Victorian Review 37, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 107-120.
Haley, Bruce. The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.
Hall, Donald E., and Cambridge Books. Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age. Cambridge [England] and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Hunt, Alan. “The Great Masturbation Panic and the Discourses of Moral Regulation in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 8, no. 4 (Apr. 1998): 575-615.
Jones, Timothy Willem. “Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain.” In Love and Romance in Britain, 1918–1970, edited by Alana Harris and Timothy Willem Jones, 124–43. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015.
Mort, Frank. Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-moral Politics in England since 1830. London: Routledge, 1987.
Overholser, Renée. “‘Looking with Terrible Temptation’: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Beautiful Bodies.” Victorian Literature and Culture 19 (1991): 25-53.
Summers, Anne. “The Correspondents of Havelock Ellis.” History Workshop Journal 32 (Autumn 1991): 167-183.
Feminism and Social Purity
Bartley, Paula. Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914. London: Routledge, 2000.
Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: English Feminism and Sexual Morality, 1885-1914. London: Penguin, 1995.
Daggers, Jenny. The British Christian Women’s Movement: A Rehabilitation of Eve. New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002.
________. “Josephine Butler and Christian Women’s Identity.” In Sex, Gender & Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited, edited by Jenny Daggers and Diana Neal, 97-111. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
________. “Transforming Christian Womanhood: Female Sexuality and Church Missionary Society Encounters in the Niger Mission, Onitsha.” Victorian Review 37, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 89-106.
________. “The Victorian Female Civilising Mission and Women’s Aspirations Towards Priesthood in the Church of England.” Women’s History Review 10, no. 4 (December 2001): 669-688.
________. “Women and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain within the Authorised Discourse.” In Open Theology no. 1 (Sep 2007). Online at http://www.opentheology.org/
Eberle, Roxanne. Chastity and Transgression in Women’s Writing, 1792-1897: Interrupting the Harlot’s Progress. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Flamming, Lucretia A. “‘And Your Sons and Daughters Will Prophesy’: The Voice and Vision of Josephine Butler.” In Women’s Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, 151-164. New York: Garland, 1998.
Frost, Ginger Suzanne. Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008.
Heilmann, Ann. “Sex, Religion, and the New Woman in China: A Comparative Reading of Sarah Grand and Alicia Little.” Victorian Review 37, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 61-74.
Heilmann, Ann, and Mark Llewellyn. “What Kitty Knew: George Moore’s John Norton, Multiple Personality, and the Psychopathology of Late-Victorian Sex Crime.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 59, no. 3 (Dec. 2004): 372-403.
Heilmann, Ann, and Stephanie Forward, eds. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand, 4 vols. London: Routledge, 2000.
Jeffreys, Sheila. The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality, 1880-1930. London: Pandora, 1985.
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler: A Biography. London: Continuum, 2007.
________. “‘Trophies of the Saviour’: Josephine Butler’s Biographical Sketches of Prostitutes.” In Sex, Gender and Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited, edited by Jenny Daggers and Diana Neal, 21-36. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
Jordan, Jane, and Ingrid Sharp, editors. Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns: Diseases of the Body Politic, 5 vols. London: Routledge, 2003.
________. “‘Our Modern code of Morals’: Public Responses to the 1890 O’Shea v. O’Shea Divorce Case.” Victorian Review 37, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 75-87.
Laite, Julia Ann. “The Association for Moral and Social Hygiene: Abolitionism and Prostitution Law in Britain (1915-1959).” Women’s History Review 17, vol. 2 (April 2008): 207-223.
Mahood, Linda. The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century. London: Routledge, 1990.
Marcus, Sharon. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Mathers, Helen. “‘‘Tis Dishonour Done to Me’: Self-Representation in the Writings of Josephine Butler.” In Sex, Gender and Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited, edited by Jenny Daggers and Diana Neal, 37-54. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
Morgan, Sue. A Passion for Purity: Ellice Hopkins and the Politics of Gender in the Late-Victorian Church. Bristol: Centre for Comparative Studies in Religion and Gender, University of Bristol, 1999.
________. “The Power of Womanhood – Religion and Sexual Politics in the Writings of Ellice Hopkins.” In Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the Angel in the House, edited by Anne Hogan and Andrew Bradstock, 209-224. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Mumm, Susan. “Ellice Hopkins and the Defaced Image of Christ.” In Women’s Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, 165-186. New York: Garland, 1998.
________. “Josephine Butler and the International Traffic in Women.” In Sex, Gender and Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited, edited by Jenny Daggers and Diana Neal, 55-72. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
________. Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain. London: Leicester University Press, 1999.
Nead, Lynda. Myths of Sexuality: Representations of Women in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. See Chapter 5, “The Prostitute as Social Victim,” 138-164.
Neal, Diana. “Josephine Butler: Flirting with the Catholic Other.” In Sex, Gender and Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited, edited by Jenny Daggers and Diana Neal, 155-172. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
Nethercot, Arthur Hobart. The First Five Lives of Annie Besant. University of Chicago Press, 1960.
Nolland, Lisa. “Josephine Butler and the Historian: Critic and Friend.” In Sex, Gender and Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited, edited by Jenny Daggers and Diana Neal, 113-134. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
Robb, George. “Eugenics, Spirituality, and Sex Differentiation in Edwardian England: The Case of Frances Swiney.” Journal of Women’s History 10, no. 3 (1998): 97–117.
Starkey, Pat. “Saints, Virgins and Family Members: Exemplary Biographies? Josephine Butler as Biographer.” In Sex, Gender and Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited, edited by Jenny Daggers and Diana Neal, 135-154. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
Summers, Anne. “‘The Constitution Violated’: The Female Body and the Female Subject in the Campaigns of Josephine Butler.” History Workshop Journal 48 (Autumn, 1999): 1-15.
________. “Introduction” to the feature section “Josephine Butler’s Legacy? Sexualities and Colonialisms Between Two World Wars.” History Workshop Journal 66, no. 2 (Aug. 2008): 185-87.
________. “Introduction: The International Abolitionist Federation” to the issue “Gender, Religion and Politics; Josephine Butler’s Campaigns in International Perspective (1875–1959).” Women’s History Review 17, vol. 2 (April 2008): 149-152.
________. “Which Women? What Europe? Josephine Butler and the International Abolitionist Federation.” History Workshop Journal 62, no. 1 (2006): 214-231.
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
________. “Science and the Seance: Transgressions of Gender and Genre in Late Victorian London.” Representations, no. 22 (1988): 3–29.
Masculinity
Adams, James Eli. Dandies and Dessert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995.
________. “Pater’s Muscular Aestheticism,” in Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age, edited by Donald E. Hall, 215-238. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Bradstock, Andrew. “‘A Man of God is a Manly Man’: Spurgeon, Luther and ‘Holy Boldness.’” In Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture, edited by Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, and Sue Morgan, 209-225. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Heathorn Stephen. “How Stiff Were Their Upper Lips? Research on Late-Victorian and Edwardian Masculinity.” History Compass 2, no. 1 (December 21, 2005): 1–7.
Lauer, Laura. “Soul-saving Partnerships and Pacifist Soldiers: the Ideal of Masculinity in the Salvation Army.” In Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture, edited by Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, and Sue Morgan, 194-208. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
McCaw, Neil. “‘Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dogs’ Tails’? George Eliot, Masculinity and the (Ir)religion of Nationalism.” In Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture, edited by Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, and Sue Morgan, 149-163. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
O’Gorman, Francis. “‘The Mightiest Evangel of the Alpine Club’: Masculinity and Agnosticism in the Alpine Writing of John Tyndall.” In Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture, edited by Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, and Sue Morgan, 134-148. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Park, Roberta J. “Muscles, Symmetry and Action: ‘Do You Measure up?’ Defining Masculinity in Britain and America from the 1860s to the Early 1900s.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 24, no. 12 (December 1, 2007): 1604–36.
Springhall, John. “Building Character in the British Boy: The Attempt to Extend Christian Manliness to Working-Class Adolescents, 1880-1914.” Manliness and Morality: Middle-Class Masculinity in Britain and America 1940 (1800): 52–74.
Spurr, Geoff. “Lower-Middle-Class Masculinity and the Young Men’s Christian Association, 1844-1880.” Histoire Sociale/Social History 47, no. 95 (2014): 547–76.
Sussmann, Herbert. Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Tosh, John. A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.
Vance, Norman. The Sinews of the Spirit: The Ideal of Christian Manliness in Victorian Literature and Religious Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Secularism and Freethought
Dellamora, Richard. Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Hall, Lesley. The Life and Times of Stella Browne: Feminist and Free Spirit. London: I. B. Taurus, 2011.
Hetherington, Naomi. “Feminism, Freethough, and the Sexual Subject in Colonial New Woman Fiction: Olive Schreiner and Kathleen Mannington Caffyn.” Victorian Review 37, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 47-59.
Jones Timothy W. “Postsecular Sex? Secularisation and Religious Change in the History of Sexuality in Britain.” History Compass 11, no. 11 (November 11, 2013): 918–30.
Schwartz, Laura. “Secularism and Sexual Freedom? Freethinking Feminists Debate Marriage, Birth Control and Sexual Morality, c.1850-1889.” Women’s History Review (forthcoming).
________. “Freethought, Free Love and Feminism: Secularist Debates on Marriage and Sexual Morality, England c. 1850–1885.” Women’s History Review19, no. 5 (November 1, 2010): 775–93.
Sexual Dissidence and Same-Sex Desire
Breen, Margaret Soenser. “Narrative Inversion: The Biblical Heritage of The Well of Loneliness and Desert of the Heart.” In Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition, edited by Raymond Frontain, 187-208. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2003.
Bredbeck, Gregory W. “Missionary Positions: Reading the Bible in E. M. Forster’s ‘The Life to Come’.” In Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition, edited by Raymond Frontain, 137-160. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2003.
Buckton, Oliver S. Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Anthology. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. See Chapter 3, “The Domesticity of Genius: Cowper and the Rise of Suburban Man,” 63-90; and Chapter 6, “Genius and the Blakean Ridiculous,” 149-176.
Glasgow, Joanne. “What’s a Nice Lesbian Like You Doing in the Church of Torquemada? Radclyffe Hall and Other Catholic Converts,” in Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions, edited by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow, 241–54. New York: New York University Press, 1990.
Hammond, Paul. Love Between Men in English Literature. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. See Chapter 5, “The Victorian Period,” 126-183; and Chapter 6, “The Modern Period,” 184-234.
Healy, Philip. “Man Apart: Priesthood and Homosexuality at the End of the Nineteenth Century.” In Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture, edited by Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, and Sue Morgan, 100-115. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Hilliard, David. “Unenglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality.” Victorian Studies 25 (Winter 1982): 181-210.
Lane, Christopher. “George Santayana and the Beauty of Friendship.” In Victorian Sexual Dissidence, edited by Richard Dellamora, 211-233. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
________. The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. See Chapter 6, “Managing ‘The White Man’s Burden’: The Racial Imagery of Forster’s Colonial Narratives,” 145-175, f267-275.
Madden, Ed. “The Well of Loneliness, or the Gospel According to Radclyffe Hall.” In Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition, edited by Raymond Frontain, 161-186. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2003.
O’Malley, Patrick R. “Epistemology of the Cloister: Victorian England’s Queer Catholicism.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 15, no. 4 (2009): 535-564.
Roden, Frederick. “Aelred of Rievaulx, Same-Sex Desire and the Victorian Monastery.” In Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture, edited by Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, and Sue Morgan, 85-99. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
________. “Kiss of the Soul: The Mystical Theology of Christina Rossetti’s Devotional Prose.” In Women’s Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, 37-58. New York: Garland, 1998.
________. “Michael Field and the Challenges of Writing a Lesbian Catholicism.” In Michael Field and Their World, edited by Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl A.Wilson, 155-162. High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2007.
________. “Michael Field, John Gray, and Marc-Andre Raffalovich: Re-Inventing Romantic Friendship in Modernity.” In Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives, edited by Lowell Gallagher, Frederick S. Roden, and Patricia Juliana Smith, 57-68. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
________. Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
________. “‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’: Same-Sex Biblical Couples in Victorian Literature.” In Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition, edited by Raymond Frontain, 115-135. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2003.
________. “Sisterhood is Powerful: Christina Rosetti’s Maude.” In Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the Angel in the House, edited by Anne Hogan and Andrew Bradstock, 63-77. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Vicinus, Martha. “‘The Gift of Love’: Nineteenth-Century Religion and Religious Passion.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 23, no. 2 (2001): 241-264.
________. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778–1928. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. See Chapter 4, “‘The Gift of Love’: Religion and Lesbian Love,” 85-108.
________. “Laocöoning in Rome: Harriet Hosmer and Romantic Friendship.” Women’s Writing 10, no. 2 (2003): 353-366.
________. “‘A Legion of Ghosts’: Vernon Lee (1856-1935) and the Art of Nostalgia.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 10, no. 4 (2004): 599-616.
________. “‘Sister Souls’: Bernard Berenson and Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper).” Nineteenth-Century Literature 60, no. 3 (2006): 326-354.
Wallace, Jo-Ann. “The Case of Edith Ellis.” In Borderlines: Gender, Sexuality and the Margins of Modernism, edited by Caroline Howlett and Hugh Stevens. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
________. “Edith Ellis, Sapphic Idealism, and The Lover’s Calendar (1912).” In Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and Modern English Culture, edited by Laura Doan and Jane Garrity, 183-199. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
________. “‘How Wonderful to Die for What You Love’: Mrs. Havelock Ellis’s Love-Acre (1914) as Spiritual Autobiography.” Victorian Review 37, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 137-151.
________. “The Very First Lady Chatterley? Mrs. Havelock Ellis’s Seaweed.” ELT: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 51, no. 2 (2008): 123-137.
Waters, Sarah. “‘The Most Famous Fairy in History’: Antinous and Homosexual Fantasy.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 6, no. 2 (Oct. 1995): 194-230.
Wright, Sheila. “‘Every Good Woman Needs a Companion of Her Own Sex’: Quaker Women and Spiritual Friendship, 1750-1850.” In Women, Religion, and Feminism in Britain, 1750-1900, edited by Sue Morgan, 89-104. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.