Recommended Reading


Victorian


Nonfiction

Fiction

For Young People

  • Daily Life in a Victorian House by Laura Wilson
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Videos

  • Pride and Prejudice by Arts and Entertainment
  • La Traviata by Franco Zeffirelli
  • Little Dorritt
  • Little Women
  • Age of Innocence
  • Gone With the Wind by MGM

Victorian Servants

Nonfiction

  • Life Below Stairs by Frank E. Huggett
  • Not In Front of the Servants by Frank Dawes
  • Occupational Costume in England: From the 11 Century to 1914 by Phillis Cunninhton and Catherine Lucas
  • The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant by Pamela Horn
  • The Servant's Hall: A Downstairs History of Britain by Merlin Waterson
  • The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant by Hannah Cullwick
  • Backstairs Life in a Country House by Eileen Balderson
  • Every Other Sunday by Jean Rennie
  • Servant's Hall by Margaret Powell
  • Rose: My Life in Service by Rosina Harrington
  • What the Butler Saw: 250 years of the Servant Problem by E.S. Turner

Fiction

  • The Complete Works of P.G. Wodehouse
  • Upstairs Downstairs Character Stories by Jean Marsh
  • Directions to Servants by Johnathan Swift

For Young People
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Videos

  • The Upstairs Downstairs Series by Masterpiece Theatre
  • The Jeeves and Wooster Series by PBS
  • Gosford Park

Elizabethan

Nonfiction

  • Understanding Shakespeare's England: A Guide for the American Reader by Jo McMurtry
  • Elizabeth's London: Everday Life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard
  • Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins
  • Henry VIII and His Court by Neville Williams
  • Elizabethan Costuming 1530-1588 by Janet Winter & Carolyn Savory. Available from All Other Times Publications, 386 Alcatraz Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618

Fiction

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  • The Faerie Queen by Edmond Spenser

For Young People

  • Bartholomew's Fair by Mary Stolz
  • Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
  • The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
  • Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema

Videos

  • Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zefferelli
  • The Taming of the Shrew by Franco Zefferelli
  • The Six Wives of Henry VIII by the BBC
  • Elizabeth R by the BBC

Web Sites

Roman

Nonfiction

  • As the Romans Did by Jo Ann Shelton
  • Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Lionel Casson
  • Priestesses by Norma Lorre Goodrich
  • A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium Paul Veyne, Ed.
  • Everyday Life in Roman Britain by Marjorie & C.H.B. Quennell
  • Ancient Rome:History of a Civilization That Built the World by Anna Maria Liberati & Fabio Bourbon
  • Great Treasures of Pompeii and Herculaneum by Theodore H. Feder

Fiction

  • I, Claudius by Robert Graves
  • Claudius the God by Robert Graves
  • The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
  • The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough
  • Fortune's Favorite by Colleen McCullough
  • Caesar's Women by Colleen McCullough
  • Caesar: Let the Dice Fly by Colleen McCullough
  • The October Horse by Colleen McCullough

  • The Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries by Lindsey Davis:
    • Silver Pigs
    • Shadows in Bronze
    • Venus in Copper
    • The Iron Hand of Mars
    • Poseidon's Gold
    • The Last Act in Palmyra
    • A Time to Depart
    • A Dying Light in Cordoba
    • Three Hands in the Fountain
    • Two for the Lions
    • One Virgin Too Many
    • Ode to a Banker
    • Body in the Bathhouse
    • The Accusers
    • The Jupiter Myth
    • Scandal Takes a Holiday
    • See Delphi and Die
    • Saturnalia

  • The Roma Sub Rosa series by Steven Saylor
    • Roman Blood
    • The House of the Vestals
    • Arms of Nemesis
    • Catilina's Riddle
    • The Venus Throw
    • A Murder on the Appian Way
    • Rubicon

    For Young People

  • Outrageous Women of Ancient Times by Vicki Leon
  • The Roman News by Candlewick Press
  • Classical Kids: An Activity Guide to Ancient Greece and Rome by Laurie Carlson

  • The Inside Story series:
    • A Roman Villa by Jacqueline Morley and John James
    • A Roman Fort by Fiona MacDonald and Gerald Wood
  • World History series:
    • The Age of Augustus by Don Nardo

    Videos

  • I, Claudius by the BBC

  • Ancient Rome series by the History Channel:
    • The Republic of Rome
    • The Age of Emperors
    • Building an Empire
    • The Enduring Legacy

    Web Sites

  • An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors

  • A Map of The Roman Empire

Celtic

Nonfiction

  • Women of the Celts by Jean Markale
  • The Celts by Jean Markale
  • Women in Celtic Myth by Moyra Caldecott
  • Traditional Irish Laws by Mary Dowling Doley
  • Celtic Gods, Celtic Goddesses by R. J. Stewart
  • The Druids by Stuart Piggott
  • The Celts by Stuart Piggott
  • Daily Life of the Pagan Celts by Dr. Anne Ross
  • The Life and Death of a Druid Prince by Dr. Anne Ross
  • Celtic Britain by Dr. Anne Ross
  • How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
  • Celtic Fire by Robert Van de Wyer
  • Walking the Maze by Loren Cruden
  • The Book of Invasions
  • The Book of the Dun Cow
  • The Cattle Raid of Cooley
  • Cu Chulainn
  • The Fionn Cycle
  • Finn Mach Cumhaill
  • The Mabinogion by Lady Charlotte Guest

    • Fiction

  • Coyote at Stonehenge by Loren Cruden
  • The Elven novels of C. J. Cherryh

    • Videos

  • The Celts: Rich Traditions and Ancient Myths by the BBC

    • Web Sites

  • Every Celtic Thing on the Web

    • Greek

    Nonfiction

  • Reflections on Ancient Greece by Roy Moore & Nikos Kazantzakis
  • The Classical World by Colin & Sarah McEvedy
  • The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook by Marvin W. Meyer
  • Priestesses by Norma Lorre Goodrich
  • Costumes of the Greeks and Romans by Thomas Hope
  • Guide to Greece by Pausanias, Translated by Peter Levi, Penguine Books, 1971

    • Fiction

  • The King Must Die by Mary Renault
  • The Bull From the Sea by Mary Renault
  • The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault
  • The Praise Singer by Mary Renault
  • The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
  • Alexander the Great by Mary Renault

For Young People

  • Outrageous Women of Ancient Times by Vicki Leon
  • The Greek News by Canglewick Press
  • Classical Kids An activity Guid to Ancient Greece and Rome by Laurie Carlson

  • The Inside Story series:
    • A Greek Temple by Fiona MacDonald and Mark Bergin
  • World History series:
    • Greek and Roman Sport by Don Nardo

    Web Sites
  • Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World

  • The Palace at Knossos

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