Victorian Britain (nonfiction)
1. 
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
by:
Daniel Pool
3.85 avg rating — 5,732 ratings 
3. 
Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
by:
Hunter S. Jones
4.17 avg rating — 88 ratings 4. 
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.51 avg rating — 24,678 ratings 
7. 
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
by:
Judith Flanders
4.18 avg rating — 2,690 ratings 8. 
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,606 ratings 
10. 
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,228 ratings 11. 
Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum
by:
Mark Stevens
3.52 avg rating — 2,415 ratings 
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Life Below Stairs: Domestic Servants in England from Victorian Times 3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings 
17. 
The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England from 1811-1901
by:
Kristine Hughes
3.85 avg rating — 473 ratings 
18. 
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England
by:
Sharon Marcus
3.95 avg rating — 339 ratings 18. 
Lost Victorian Britain: How The Twentieth Century Destroyed the Nineteenth Century's Architectural Masterpieces
by:
Gavin Stamp
4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings 21. 
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
by:
Judith Flanders
3.41 avg rating — 4,258 ratings 
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The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes
by:
Henry Mayhew
4.06 avg rating — 322 ratings 24. 
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
by:
David Gilmour
3.75 avg rating — 153 ratings 24. 
Queen of The Savoy: The Extraordinary Life of Helen D’Oyly Carte 1852-1913
by:
Elisabeth Kehoe
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings 24. 
Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang: Fifty Makers, Shakers and Heartbreakers from the Victorian Era 3.87 avg rating — 109 ratings
28. 
An American in Victorian Cambridge: Charles Astor Bristed's "Five Years in an English University" really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year
by:
Greg King
3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings 35. 
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Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes
by:
Mary S. Hartman
3.60 avg rating — 312 ratings 35. 
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings 
35. 
The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton: The First Domestic Goddess
by:
Kathryn Hughes
3.54 avg rating — 372 ratings 
35. 
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.82 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 
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Isle and Empires: Romanov Russia, Britain and the Isle of Wight
by:
Stephan Roman
4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings 35. 
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty 3.81 avg rating — 1,341 ratings
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Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (The History of England, #5)
by:
Peter Ackroyd
3.87 avg rating — 704 ratings 
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
by:
Dean Jobb
3.61 avg rating — 5,220 ratings 54. 
Night's Black Angels: The Forms and Faces of Victorian Cruelty
by:
Ronald Pearsall
3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings 54. 
Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture
by:
Lorenzo Servitje
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
57. 
What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem
by:
E.S. Turner
3.92 avg rating — 59 ratings 57. 
Little Germany: Exile and Asylum in Victorian England
by:
Rosemary Ashton
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
57. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 57. 
Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist
by:
Simon Grennan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
63. 
The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 3.37 avg rating — 51 ratings
63. 
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
by:
Neil McKenna
3.71 avg rating — 747 ratings 63. 
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Victorian Iconoclast, Children’s Author, and Creator of The Railway Children 3.66 avg rating — 127 ratings
68. 
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.16 avg rating — 3,929 ratings 68. 
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
by:
Mike Davis
4.20 avg rating — 2,037 ratings 74. 
J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian
by:
Julia Markus
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 74. 
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 4.33 avg rating — 15,702 ratings
74. 
Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation
by:
John Sutherland
3.29 avg rating — 66 ratings 
77. 
High Society: The English Social Elite, 1880-1914
by:
Pamela Horn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 77. 
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 3.92 avg rating — 519 ratings
77. 
Life Below Stairs: in the Victorian and Edwardian Country House
by:
Siân Evans
3.96 avg rating — 273 ratings 77. 
Mortal Remains: The history and present state of the Victorian and Edwardian cemetery
by:
Chris Brooks
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 
83. 
A London Child of the 1870s (Isis Reminiscence Series)
by:
Molly Hughes
4.03 avg rating — 346 ratings 83. 
Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home
by:
Lucinda Hawksley
4.19 avg rating — 408 ratings 
89. 
This Rash Act: Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City
by:
Victor Bailey
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 89. 
Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria
by:
William Kuhn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings 
89. 
Victorian Death Art: Postmortem Death Photography and Hair Art (Interest & Intrigue Book 1)
by:
Emily Ann Bronte
3.34 avg rating — 35 ratings 
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High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain
by:
Simon Heffer
3.99 avg rating — 119 ratings 
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The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
by:
Sinclair McKay
3.52 avg rating — 467 ratings 
