Primary Materials

Reynolds, George W. M. The Mysteries of London. 2 vols. Project Gutenberg EBooks #51294 & #47312. Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Web. 27 September 2016.

Secondary Materials

While a full biography of awaits to be written, probably the most detailed account to date is Dick Collins's 'G.W.M. Reynolds: a Biographical Sketch' that introduces the Valancourt edition of Reynolds's The Necromancer Kansas City: Valancourt Books, 2007), vii-lv. — Louis James, Professor Emeritus in Victorian and Modern Literature, University of Kent

Bleiler, E. F. "G. W. M. Reynolds" Supernatural Fiction Writers, Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. 205-211.

Goodway, David. London Chartism: 1838-1848. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

McWilliam, Rohan. "The mysteries of G.W.M. Reynolds: radicalism and melodrama in Victorian Britain" Living and Learning: Essays in Honour of J. F. C. Harrkison. Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996. 182-98.

Plunkett, John. "Regicide and Reginamania: G.W.M. Reynolds and The Mysteries of London" Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. 15-30.

Shannon, Mary. Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street. Academia.edu. 2016. Web. 9 March 2017. [Winner of the 2016 Colby Prize]


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