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4. [https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Map-Londons-Terrifying-Epidemic/dp/1594482691/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1508823751&sr=1-1&keywords=Steven+Johnson%3A+%27%27The+Ghost+Map%3A+The+Story+of+London%E2%80%99s+Most+Terrifying+Epidemic Steven Johnson: ''The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic]'' – This book is a super fun, quick read on nineteenth-century medical history that examines a particular outbreak of cholera in London in 1854. Johnson's work explains how theories of contagion evolved from blaming sickness on "bad air"(miasma), to blaming sickness on bacteria due that arose from unsanitary conditions.
5. [https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Victorian-England-Sally-Mitchell/dp/0313294674/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1508823783&sr=1-1&keywords=sally+Mitchell%3A+%27%27Daily+Life+in+Victorian+England%27 Sally Mitchell: ''Daily Life in Victorian England''] – This book is a quick primer on social history in Victorian England. It deals mostly with the rise of the middle class, which is a very important part of nineteenth-century history. Great for a quick overview of Victorian social history.
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7. [https://www.amazon.com/Eminent-Victorians-Classic-20th-Century-Penguin/dp/0140183507/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1508823834&sr=1-1&keywords=Lytton+Strachey%3A+%27%27Eminent+Victorians%27 Lytton Strachey: ''Eminent Victorians']' – This work, first published in 1918, was one of the first biographies to ''not'' examine great men who did great things. Strachey's style helped replace a certain reverence that Victorians usually held for famous figures with a healthy skepticism of these figures' actions. Strachey examines his subjects' great notable deeds alongside their faults, all the while displaying great wit and undeniable readability.
8. [https://www.amazon.com/Oscar-Wilde-Richard-Ellmann/dp/0394759842/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1508823858&sr=1-1&keywords=Richard+Ellmann%3A+%27%27Oscar+Wilde Richard Ellmann: ''Oscar Wilde]'' – With a subject like Oscar Wilde, a biographer would be hard-pressed to create a work that didn't bring the reader directly into the world of its subject. Ellmann's is the definitive biography of Wilde; it brilliantly juxtaposes Wilde’s eccentricities against straight-laced Victorian society.
