Contemporary Newspapers and Periodicals
“An Awful Warning.” Punch (17 November 1866): 205.
“Free as Eyre.” Punch (April 6, 1867): 143.
“Mr. Carlyle.” Westminster Review 72 (December 1865): 778-810.
“Jamaica.” Westminster Review 87-88 (July 1867): 86-102.
“The Jamaica Committee.” Punch (26 January 1867): 37.
“The Negro Insurrection in Jamaica.” Illustrated London News (15 November 1865) complete text
“The Outbreak in Jamaica.” Illustrated London News (2 December 1865) complete text
“The Reform League and the Parks.” Fraser’s Magazine 74 (September 1866): 404-10.
“The Jamaica Commissioners’s report on the Jamaica insurrection condemning the conduct of Governor Eyre and his subordinates.” Illustrated London News, (23 June 1866) complete text
Contemporary books
Eyre, Edward John. Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sand, in 1840-1, including an account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines, and the state of their relations with Europeans 2 Vols. Vol.2. London: T. & W. Boone, 1845.
Froude, J. A. The English in the West Indies: The Bow of Ulysses. London: Longmans, 1888.
Hume, Alexander Hamilton. The Life of Edward John Eyre, late Governor of Jamaica. London: Richard Bentley, 1867
Kingsley, Henry. "Eyre, the South-Australian Explorer," Part II. Macmillan’s Magazine, November 1865.
Mill, John Stuart. Autobiography. 3rd ed. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1874.
Secondary Materials
Alderson, David. Mansex fine: Religion, Manliness and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century British Culture. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998.
Brathwaite, Edward. The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.
Duttonn, Geoffrey. The Hero as Murderer: The Life of Edward John Eyre, Australian Explorer and Governor of Jamaica (1815-1901). London: Collins; Sydney, Melbourne: Cheshire, 1967.
Fraser, Robert “Race and Religion in the Victorian Age: Charles Kingsley, Governor Eyre and the Morant Bay Rising” [completetext]
Haldane, Sydney, Baron Olivier. The Myth of Governor Eyre. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogrtth Press, 1933.
Hart, Ansell. The Life of George William Gordon Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica, 1972.
Heuman, Gad. "The Killing Time": The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994.
Naipaul, V.S. The Loss of El Dorado: A History. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
Reid, V. S. New Day. New York: Alfred A. Knoft, 1949; London: William Heinemann, 1950; London: Heinemann Educational Books, Caribbean Writers Series, 1973.
Semmel, Bernard.The Governor Eyre Controversy. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1962.
Vanden Bossche, Chris R. “Carlyle and the Governor Eyre Controversy” [complete text]
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