| Abbreviation |
Source |
| ADB |
Australian Dictionary of Biography (online). |
| Benson |
Benson, Eugene, and William Toye. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press, 2001. |
| Black |
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1893. |
| BL |
British Library Integrated Catalogue (online). |
| DNB |
The Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. |
| DNCJ |
Brake, Laurel, and Marysa Demoor. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. London: Academia Press and The British Library, 2009. |
| EC |
The English Catalogue of Books. Volumes 1-6. London: Sampson Low, 1864-1901. |
| Fisher |
Harris, Margaret. A Checklist of the "Three-Decker" Collection in the Fisher Library, University of Sydney. Syndey: University of Sydney, 1980. |
| France |
France, Peter, ed. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. |
| Garland |
Garland, Henry and Mary Garland. The Oxford Companion to German Literature. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. |
| Hart |
Hart, James D., ed. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Rev. Phillip W. Leininger. Sixth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. |
| Kemp |
Kemp, Sandra, Charlotte Mitchell, and David Trotter. Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. |
| Law |
Law, Graham. Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press. New York: Palgrave, 2000. |
| Loeber |
Loeber, Rolf and Magda Loeber. A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650–1900. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. |
| NCBEL |
Shattock, Joanne, ed. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Volume 4, 1800–1900. Revised 3rd edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
| PC |
The Publisher's Circular. |
| Sadleir |
Sadleir, Michael. XIX Century Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. |
| Sutherland |
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| Times |
Times [London] |
| Vann |
Vann, J. Don. Victorian Novels in Serial. New York: MLA, 1985. |
| Welch |
Welch, Robert. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. |
| Wolff |
Wolff, Robert Lee. Nineteenth-Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Catalogue Based on the Collection Formed by Robert Lee Wolff. New York: Garland, 1981-86. |
| Wellesley |
Houghton, Walter E., et al. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. 5 volumes. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1966-89. |
