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COUNTERPOINT

A historical novel

Selected References and Resources 

Alderson, Richard; Complete Handbook of Voice Training

Baedeker, Karl; London and Its Environs (1900): A Handbook for Travelers

Bartley Paula; Emmeline Pankhurst

Besant, Annie; An Autobiography

Blainey, Ann; I Am Melba

Booth, Michael R.; Theatre in the Victorian Age

Cannadine; David; The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

Cathcart Borer, Mary; Two Villages: The Story of Chelsea and Kensington

Cross, Milton and Ewen, David; The Milton Cross New Encyclopedia of the Great Composers 

  and Their Music

Curtis, Jr., L. Perry; Jack the Ripper and the London Press

de Waal, Edmund; The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Devonshire, Deborah; The House

Dickens, Charles; David Copperfield; Dictionary of London (1881): An Unconventional 

   Handbook; Our Mutual Friend  

Donoghue, Emma; Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801

Eliot, George; Daniel Deronda; Middlemarch

Ellman, Richard; Oscar Wilde

Flanders, Judith; Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian

  England

Fleming, Renee; The Inner Voice

Galsworthy, John; Forsyte Chronicles

Gates, Joanne E.; Elizabeth Robins: Actress, Novelist, Feminist

Hines, Gary; Images of London: Bethnal Green

Jackson, Lee; Victorian London

John, Angela V.; Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952

Liggins, Emma; The ‘Sordid Story’ of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood and

   Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’ Votes for Women! and Way Stations

Llewelyn Davies, Margaret (ed.), Life as We Have Known It by Cooperative Working

  Women

Martin, Ralph G.; Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill 

Matheopoulos, Helena; Diva

Matheopoulos, Helena; Maestro

MacKenzie, Charlotte; Psychiatry for the Rich: A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum

McLaren, Angus; Birth Control in Nineteenth Century England

Moss, G.P. and Saville, M. V.; From Palace to College: An Illustrated Account of Queen

  Mary College (re: The People’s Palace) 

Murray's Modern London: 1860

Nethercot, Arthur H.; The First Five Lives of Annie Besant

O’Connor, Ann-Marie; The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s 

   Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska; Links in the Chain of Life

Powell, Margaret; Below Stairs

Robins, Elizabeth (Gates, Joanne E., editor); Way Stations

Robins, Elizabeth; The Convert

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  Robins, 1900

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Schneer, Jonathan; London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis

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Soloway, Richard Allen; Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1877-1930

Taylor, Jill Bolte; My Stroke of Insight

Village Press (editors); Edwardian London, Vol. 3

Waters, Sarah; Tipping the Velvet

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Woodruff, Lee and Bob; In an Instant

 

Archives/Media/Museums/World Wide Web

Beva Equine Veterinary Education; Jarred Williams, Robyn Elleerbrock: “Decision-making

   in complicated dystocias”

British History Online: (1) Bethnal Green, (2) Public Services

Channel Four Television and the Public Broadcasting System: The 1900 House

Channel Four Television and the Public Broadcasting System: Manor House

Cleveland Clinic: “Breech Baby”

Cleveland Equine Clinic: “Foaling Tips”

debrettsco.uk

dvm360: Ed Kane, PhD.: “How to Handle Common Foaling Complications and Injuries”

Grovemusic.com

Guildhall Library Archive, London: Diary of a St Paul’s chorister

London School of Economics: Dwelling in the East End

Medical Life Sciences; Extended Breech, Flexed Breech, and Footling Breech

Museum of London

musiccenter.org/about/culthistla.html (re: Los Angeles)

National Library of Medicine, NIH; Caron J. Gray and Meaghan M. Shanahan: “Breech 

     Presentation”

National Library of Medicine, NIH; Hajo I.J. Wildschut, Hinke van Belzen-Slappendel and 

     Suze Jans: “The Art of Vaginal Breech Birth at Term on All Fours”

Oklahoma State University; Reed Holyoak and Kris Hiney: “Foaling Management and Care

    of the Nursing Foal”

Ragged School Museum, London

royaloperahouse.org

stpaulsschool.org.uk

thepeerage.com

The Equine Center: “Foaling Complications”

Transport Museum, London

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

victorianlondon.org (Lee Jackson, creator/site-master)

To contact the author.

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