Chateau-sur-Mer Reading List

Mason, George Champlin.  Newport and Its Cottages.  1875.

Mason, George Champlin.  Newport and its Environs.  1848.

McAllister, Ward.  Society as I Have Found It.  New York: Arno Press, 1975.

Sherwood, Mary Elizabeth Wilson.  "Newport Villas."  Art Journal, Oct. 1876, 289-93.

Van Rensselaer, Mr. John King.  Newport: Our Social Capital.  New York: Arno Press, 1975.

Victorian Art, Architecture, and Design

Briggs, Asa.  Victorian Things.  Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2003.

Downing, Andrew Jackson.  The Architecture of Country Houses.  New York: Dover Publications, 1969.

Downing, Andrew Jackson.  Cottage Residences.  Watkins Glen, NY: Library of Victorian Culture, 1967.

Downing, Andrew Jackson.  A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening.  University of Michigan, 2006.

Fein, Albert.  Frederick Law Olmsted and the American Environmental Tradition.  New York: G. Braziller, 1972.

Girouard, Mark.  Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. 

Girouard, Mark.  The Victorian Country House.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979.

Gloag, John. Victorian Comfort: A Social History of Design, 1830-1900. A.C. Black, 1961.

Harrison, Martin.  Victorian Stained Glass.  Barrie & Jenkins, 1980.

Hitchcock, Henry Russell.  Architecture, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.   Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1977.

Leighton, Ann.  American Gardens of the Nineteenth Century: "For Comfort and Affluence".  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.

Lowell, Guy, ed.  American Gardens.  Boston: Bates and Guild Company, 1902.

Metropolitan Museum of Art.  In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement.  New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art: Rizzoli, 1986.

Parsons, Samuel.  The Art of Landscape Architecture.  New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. 

Philadelphia Museum of Art.  The Second Empire, 1852-1870: Art in France Under Napoleon III.  Philadelphia: The Museum, 1978.

Pierson, William Harvey.  American Buildings and Their Architects: Technology and the Picturesque, the Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles.  New York: Anchor Press for Doubleday, 1978.

Roper, Laura Wood.  FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.

Thorndike, Joseph Jr. ed. Three Centuries of Notable American Architects. New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing, 1981.

Wilson, H. Weber.  Great Glass in American Architecture: Decorative Windows and Doors Before 1900.  New York: Dutton, 1986.

Victorian History and Culture

Aron, Cindy Sondik.  Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Bourget, Paul.  Outre-mer: Impressions of America.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons,  895.

Carnes, Mark C.  Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Cooley, Thomas.   The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.

DeSantis, Vincent P.  The Shaping of Modern America, 1877-1920.  Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, 2000.

Dubois, Ellen Carol.  Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women?s Movement in America, 1848-1869.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Green, Harvey and Mary E. Perry.  The Light of the Home: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America.  New York: Random House, 1984.

Grier, Katherine C.  Culture and Comfort: People, Parlors, and Upholstery 1850-1930. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

Jones, Howard Mumford.  The Age of Energy, Varieties of American Experience, 1865-  1917.  New York: Viking Press, 1971.

McDannell, Colleen.  The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840-1900.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Pike, Martha and Armstrong, Jane Gray.  A Time to Mourn: Expressions of Grief in Nineteenth Century America.  Exhibition catalogue.  Stonybrook, NY: Museum at Stonybrook, 1980.   

Rose, Anne C.  Victorian America and the Civil War.  Cambridge: Cambridge University   Press, 1994.

Schlereth, Thomas J.  Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915.  New York: HarperPerennial, 1992.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carrol.  Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Stephens,  Autumn.  Wild Women, Crusaders, Curmudgeons, and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era.  Berkeley: Conari Press, 1992.

Stevenson, Louise L.  The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Sutherland, Daniel E.  The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876.  New York: Perennial Library, 1990.

Takaki, Ronald T.  Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th Century America.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Ware, Norman.  The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial   Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution.  Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1990.

Victorian Dress and Fashion

Coleman, E.A.  The Opulent Era: Fashions of Worth, Doucet, and Pingat.  New York: Thames and Hudson and the Brooklyn Museum, 1989

Cunningham, Patricia.  Reforming Women?s Fashions, 1850-1920: Politics, Health and Art.  Kent: The Kent State University, 2003.

Gernsheim, Alison.  Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey. New York:  Dover Publications, Inc., 1981.

Classic Non-Fiction of the Victorian Age

Jones, Owen.  The Grammar of Ornament.  New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1972.

Ruskin, John.  Seven Lamps of Architecture.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1889.  Reprinted New York: Dover Publications, 1989.

Ruskin, John.  Stones of Venice.  New York; J. Wiley, 1889.  Reprinted Boston: Little, Brown, 1981; New York: Da Capo Press, 1985.

Strachey, Lytton.  Eminent Victorians.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Strachey, Lytton.  Queen Victoria.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

Classic Fiction of the Victorian Age

Harte, Bret.  "An Newport Romance."  The Poetical Works of Bret Harte.  Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 2004. 

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.  Oldport Days.  Hard Press, 2006.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.  Malbone: An Oldport Romance.  Hard Press, 2006.

James, Henry. The Art of Travel.  Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970.

James, Henry.  An International Episode.  New York: Penguin Books, 1985.

James, Henry.  The Ivory Tower.  New York: New York Review Books, 2004.

James, Henry.  Washington Square.  New York: Simon & Schuster Editions, 1996.