Movie & Book Lists

These movies and TV series are great for historical costume inspiration and to watch while making costumes or drinking tea. Some films have been reviewed in blog posts.

• The Age of Innocence - review
• An Ideal Husband
• Anna and the King 
• Anna Karenina (2012)
• Aristocrats
• Becoming Jane
• Belle
• Berkeley Square
• Bleak House (2005) 
• Bright Star
• The Buccaneers
• Coco Before Chanel
• Cold Mountain
• Cranford and Return to Cranford 
• The Crimson Petal and the White
• A Dangerous Method
• Daniel Deronda
• Death Comes to Pemberly 
• Doctor Zhivago (2002)
• Downton Abbey - Sn. 4 review
• Dracula (1992)(2011 series - review) 
• The Duchess
• East of Eden
• Emma (1996)(2009 series) 
• Fall of Eagles
• Fingersmith 
• The Forsyte Saga
• Gone With the Wind
• Gosford Park
• Great Expectations (1999 series)(2011 series)
• Hysteria
• The Illusionist 
• The Inheritance  
• The Invisible Woman
• Jane Eyre (1943)(1973)(1983 series)(1996)(2006 series)(2011)
• Lark Rise To Candleford
• Lincoln
• Little Dorrit (2008 series) 
• Little Women (1994)
• The Making of a Lady - review
• Mansfield Park
• Marie Antoinette
• Miss Potter
• Mr. Selfridge - Sn. 1 review 
• Mrs. Brown
• Moulin Rouge!
• My Fair Lady
• Nicholas and Alexandra 
• North and South
• The Pallisers 
• The Paradise
• Penny Dreadful
• Persuasion (2007)
• The Piano
• Poldark (2015 series) 
• Pride and Prejudice (1995 series) (2005)
• A Room with a View (2007)
• A Royal Affair - review
• The Secret Garden (1993)
• Sense and Sensibility (1995) (2008 series) 
• Somewhere in Time
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Tess of the D'Ubervilles (2008 series) 
• Tipping the Velvet
• Titanic 
• Upstairs, Downstairs (Original 1970 Series) (2010 reboot)
• Victoria & Albert
• Wives and Daughters
• The Young Victoria

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I get a lot of information from books and reading. Some of these are costume-related, others are pieces of fiction that delve into the Victorian world or it's alternative counterpart, the world of Steampunk. There's a number of non-fiction pieces I've read over the years too, some of them are related to Victorian living and others are on the history of the era. These also go well with a cup of tea.

Fiction

• Finishing School series by Gail Carriger
• The Infernal Devices trilogy by Cassandra Clare
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 
• The Lady Emily Mysteries by Tasha Alexander
• The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger
• Works of Jane Austen

Costume Books

• 80 Godey's Full-Color Fashions Plates 1838-1880
• The Basics of Corset Building: A Handbook for Beginners
• Fashion 
• Nineteenth Century Fashion in Detail
• The Opulent Era: Fashions of Worth, Doucet and Pingat 
• Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazar, 1867-1898
• Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey
• Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from "La Mode Illustree"

Sewing Books

• The Art of Manipulating Fabric
• Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques 

Victorian Lifestyle

• Daily Life in a Victorian House
• The Essential Handbook of Victorian Entertaining
• The Essential Handbook of Victorian Etiquette
• Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England