Novels and novellas
- George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872)
- Charlotte Bront?, Jane Eyre (1847)
- Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1859)
- R.L. Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) *
Poetry
- Christina Rossetti, ‘Goblin Market’ (1862) *
- Robert Browning, ‘A Forgiveness’ (1876)
- Augusta Webster, ‘Circe’ (1870)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Grief’ (1844)
- Christina Rossetti, ‘After Death’ (1862) *
- Thomas Hood, ‘The Bridge of Sighs’ (1844)
- Alfred Tennyson, excerpts from In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849) *
Non-fiction
- Florence Marryat, excerpt from There Is No Death (1891)
- W.T. Stead, excerpts from The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon(1885)
- Henry Mayhew, ‘Watercress Girl’, from London Labour and the London Poor (1851)
- Annie Besant, ‘The “White Slavery” of London Match Workers’ (1873) *
Neo-Victorian writing
- A.S. Byatt, excerpts from Possession (1990)
- Sarah Waters, excerpts from Fingersmith (2002)
- Herbert Tucker, A Companion to Victorian Literature