BETA

Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry: Abbreviations

This is a list of abbreviations for sources commonly used in notes in poem and person records.
Abbreviation Source
Boase Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. Frank Cass and Company, 1965.
Boos Boos, Florence S. Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Britain. Broadview Press, 2008.
Crockford Crockford, John. Crockford’s Clerical Directory for 1874: Being a Statistical Book of Reference for facts Relating to the Clergy and the Church. Seventh ed. Horace Cox, 1874.
Colman Colman, Anna Ulry. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Irish Woman Poets. Tarquin, 1996.
Cushing Cushing, William. Initials and Pseudonyms. Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, 1885.
Eyre-Todd Eyre-Todd, George. Who’s Who in Glasgow in 1909: A Biographical Dictionary of Nearly Five Hundred Living Glasgow Citizens and of Noble Citizens Who Have Died Since January 1907. Gowans and Grey, Limited, 1909.
Foster, Men-at-the-Bar Foster, Joseph. Men-At-The-Bar: A Biographical Hand-List of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, Including Her Majesty’s Judges, Etc. Second ed. Hazel, Watson, and Viney, Limited, 1885.
Foster, Alumni Oxonienses Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxionienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886: Their Parentage, Birthplace, and Year of Birth, with a Record of Their Degrees. Parker and Company, 1887.
Goldman Goldman, Paul. Victorian Illustration: The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School, and the High Victorians. Lund Humphries Pub Limited, 2004.
Goodridge Goodridge, John. Bridget Keegan. A Catalogue of British and Irish Labouring-Class and Self-Taught Poets C. 1700-1900. Academia, 2022.
Houfe Houfe, Simon. The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914. With Introductory Chapters on the Rise and Progress of the Art. [Illustr.]. British Library, 1978.
ADB ADB Home-Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2006, adb.anu.edu.au/.
ANB American National Biography. American National Biography Online, 2019, www.anb.org/.
At the Circulating Library At the Circulating Library. Victorian Research Web, www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/.
Benezit Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online, 2019, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit.
BL Catalogues and Collections. British Library, 2019, www.bl.uk/catalogues-and-collections. Note: this URL has been offline since the 2023 cyber-attack on the British Library, but an interim catalogue search is available at bll01.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44BL_INST:BLL01.
BnF BnF Catalogue General. BnF-Site Institutionnel, www.bnf.fr/fr/bnf-catalogue-general.
Columbia Granger’s The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online. Columbia University Press, cup.columbia.edu/reference/grangers.
Curran Index The Curran Index to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals. The Curran Index, www.curranindex.org.
DCB Home-Dictionary of Canadian Biography. DCB/DBC, 2003, www.biographi.ca/en/.
DIB Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dictionary of Irish Biography, Royal Irish Academy, www.dib.ie/.
DJO Welcome to DJO. Dickens Journals Online, www.djo.org.uk/.
DLB Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale, www.gale.com/c/literature-dictionary-of-literary-biography.
DNZB Dictionary of New Zealand Biography-Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Te Ara, 2019, teara.govt.nz/en/biographies.
DWB Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Dictionary of Welsh Biography, The National Library of Wales, 2018, biography.wales/.
Grove Grove Art. Oxford Art Online, 2019, www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart.
Hootman Hootman, Harry. Index of British Literary Annuals and Giftbooks. An Overview of the British Literary Annuals, 2022, https://www.britannualsinfo.com/index.
Hymnary Hymnary.org: A Comprehensive Index of Hymns and Hymnals. Hymnary.org, hymnary.org/.
Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry J. Jackson, J.R. de. Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry. University of Toronto Libraries, jacksonbibliography.library.utoronto.ca/.
Johnson and Greutzner J. Johnson, and A. Greutzner. The Dictionary of British Artists, 1880-1940: An Antique Collectors’ Club Research Project Losing 41,000 Artists. Baron Publishing, 1976.
Labouring-Class Poets Online Laboring-Class Poets Online. Laboring-Class Poets Online, lcpoets.wordpress.com/.
Lohrli Lohrli, Anne. Household Words. University of Toronto Press, 1973.
NINES N I N E S. Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online, nines.org/.
ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford DNB, 2019, www.oxforddnb.com/.
Oppenlander Oppenlander, Ella Ann. Dickens All the Year Round: Descriptive Index and Contributor List. Whitson Publishing Company Incorporated, 1984.
Orlando Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles, from the Beginnings to the Present. Orlando, Cambridge University Press, orlando.cambridge.org/.
Oxford Reference Oxford Reference - Answers with Authority. Oxford Reference, 2019, www.oxfordreference.com/.
The Perseus Catalogue Perseus Catalog. Perseus Digital Library, catalog.perseus.org/.
Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry Reilly, Catherine W. Mid-Victorian Poetry 1860-1879: An Annotated Bibliography. London; New York, Mansell, 2000.
Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry Reilly, Catherine W. Late Victorian Poetry, 1880-1899. Burnes and Oates, 1994.
Roose Roose, Richelle. Periodical Poetry: Poetry in Relation to the Socio-Political and Literary Agendas of the English Woman’s Journal and Victoria Magazine. 2015. University of Ghent, MA dissertation, libstore.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/002/212/914/RUG01-002212914_2015_0001_AC.pdf.
Rossetti Archive McGann, Jerome J. Rossetti Archive. Rossetti Archive, 2008, www.rossettiarchive.org/.
Scheckner Scheckner, Peter. An Anthology of Chartist Poetry: Poetry of the British Working Class, 1830s-1850s. Rutherford, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London, 1989.
Stephen Stephen, Leslie. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Macmillan, 1898.
Strout Strout, Alan Lang. A Bibliography of Articles in Blackwood’s Magazine. Lubbock, Library, Texas Tchnological College, 1959.
Sutherland Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Second ed., Routledge, 2009.
Venn Venn, John, and Venn, J. A. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates, and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Vol 1-10, Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
VWWP Victorian Women Writers Project. Indiana University, webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/welcome.do.
Waterloo Directory Periodical/Newspaper Information. Waterloo Directory, www.victorianperiodicals.com/series3/index.asp.
Wellesley Index The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900, Information Site. The Wellesley Index, www.proquest.com/c19index?rd=Y.
Yellow Nineties Personography Yellow Nineties Personography. Yellow Nineties, Ryerson University, personography.1890s.ca/.
Yellow Nineties Online Dennisoff, Dennis, and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. Yellow Nineties 2.0. The Yellow Nineties Online, 1890s.ca/.
Wood Wood, Christopher. The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Second ed., British Library, 1989.
WorldCat WorldCat Identities. World Cat, https://entities.oclc.org/worldcat/entity.