Charles Reade, 1814-1884
Biographical Materials
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Works
Literary Relations
- Charles Reade and The Moonstone
- Compared to other authors who chose socially significant themes
- Justin McCarthy (1872) on Charles Reade
- Mid- and late-Victorian Fiction
Cultural Contexts
- Artistic Relations
- Victorianism
- Religion and Philosophy
- Science and Technology
- Victorian Psychology
Science and Technology
Social and Political Contexts
- Reade on the Railway Mania of the 1840s (Hard Cash)
- Victorian Political History: An Overview
- Victorian Social History: An Overview
- Prison conditions
- Mental hospitals
- Trade Unions
Theme and Technique
- Themes
- Characterization
- Imagery, Symbolism, and Motifs
- Genre and Mode
- the Problem Novel
On-line Texts and Related Materials
- Arthur's Classic Novels has free versions of a dozen works including The Cloister and the Hearth and Hard Cash
- Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches in the complete texts of fourteen of Reade's works
Last modified 28 September 2004