| AUTHOR | TITLE | COMMENTS |
| Goldman, Marion S. | Gold Diggers & Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode | Vivid discussion of prostitution and how it fit into society at that time. |
| Himmelfarb, Gertrude | Marriage and Morals among the Victorians and Other Essays | A collection of essays about what was acceptable and unacceptable for English Victorians |
| Hutson, Jan | The Chicken Ranch: The True Story of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | Priceless, especially for its account of the mores and the posted rules. |
| James, Ronald M. & C. Elizabeth Raymond, editors |
Comstock Women: The Making of A Mining Community | Fascinating account of life on the Comstock Lode, including a great deal of information on American women everywhere at that time. One of the books I kept coming back to. |
| Lewis, Judith Schneid | In the Family Way: Childbearing in the British Aristocracy, 1760-1860 | An interesting account of fertility (including contraception) and childbearing. |
| Lowry, Thomas P., M.D. | The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War | A great read. |
| Marcus, Steven | The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England | If you’re writing Victorian erotica, you need to have read this book. |
| Mason, Michael | The Making of Victorian Sexuality | What did the Victorians think of sex? Useful, extremely detailed and sometimes hard to read. |
| McLaren, Angus | A History of Contraception: From Antiquity to the Present Day | Scholarly, covers ancient Greece through today. |
| Steele, Valerie | The Corset, A Cultural History | Great, great illustrations and much more information than expected. |
| Walker, Henry Pickering | The Wagonmasters: High Plains Freighting from the Earliest Days of the Santa Fe Trail to 1880 | This book gave me the idea for William. |
| Willett, D. and Phillis Cunnington |
The History of Underclothes | A must-have. |
