On Sofia Tolstoy
Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, foreword by Doris Lessing, tr. Cathy Porter (Richmond: Alma Books, 2010)
Bartlett, Rosamund and Benn, Anna, Literary Russia: A Guide (London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 2007)
Bendavid-Val, Leah, Song Without Words: The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy (New York: National Geographic Society, 2007)
On Leo Tolstoy
Catalogue of L. N. Tolstoy’s Library in Iasnaia Poliana, ed. N. V. Kotrelev, vol. 3 (Tula: Iasnaia Poliana, 1999)
Bartlett, Rosamund, Tolstoy: A Russian Life (London: Profile, 2010)
Cruise, Edwina, ‘Tracking the English Novel in Anna Karenina: Who Wrote the English Novel that Anna Reads?’, in Donna Orwin, ed., Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 159–82
Gareth Jones, W., Tolstoi and Britain (Oxford: Berg, 1995)
Goubert, Denis, ‘Did Tolstoy Read East Lynne?’, Slavonic and East European Review, 58 (1980), 22–39
Knapp, Liza, Anna Karenina and Others (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016)
Mandelker, Amy, Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994)
Morson, Gary Saul, Anna Karenina in Our Time: Seeing More Wisely (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007)
Nabokov, Vladimir, Lectures on Russian Literature (New York: Harcourt & Brace & Co., 1981)
Parini, Jay, The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy’s Final Year (London: Canongate Books, 2007)
Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel, Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism and the Absent Mother (London: Macmillan, 1998)
Shepard, Maria, Anna Karenina: A New Musical (2016)
Simmons, Ernest J., Leo Tolstoy (London: John Lehmann, 1949)
Stenbock-Fermor, Elisabeth, The Architecture of Anna Karenina (Lisse: The Peter de Ridder Press, 1975)
Sutherland, John, ‘What English Novel is Anna Karenina Reading?’ in John Sutherland, Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 219–23
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina, tr. Rosamund Bartlett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina, tr. Nathan Dole (London, 1886) [the edition that Kate Field would have read]
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina: The Maude Translation, edited with a revised translation by George Gibian (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1970)
Tolstoy, Leo, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Tolstoy, Count Ilya, Reminiscences of Tolstoy, tr. George Calderon (London: Chapman and Hall, 1914)
Turner, C. J. G., A Karenina Companion (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993)
Wilson, A. N. Tolstoy (London: Atlantic, 2013)
On translation
Bartlett, Rosamund, ‘Tolstoy Translated’, Financial Times, 8 August 2014, www.rosamundbartlett.com/website/Articles.html
Boym, Svetlana, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994)
On Kate Field and her travels
Cudahy, Brian J., Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World (New York: Fordham University Press, 1995)
De Leeuw, R. M., Both Sides of Broadway (New York: De Leeuw Riehl Publishing Co., 1910)
Field, Kate, Kate Field’s Washington: A National Independent Review published every Wednesday in Washington D. C. and New York, 1891 – (11 volumes)
Field, Kate, Planchette’s Diary (New York: Redfield Press, 1868)
Field, Kate, Selected Letters, ed. Carolyn J. Moss (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996)
Field, Kate, ‘On Visiting Pullman’, Kate Field’s Washington (11 July 1894)
Geberer, Raanan, ‘The 19th Century’s High Line’, http://www.nypress.com/local-news/20151117/the-19th-centurys-high-line
Gordon, Sarah Barringer, ‘“The Liberty of Self-Degradation”: Polygamy, Woman Suffrage and Consent in Nineteenth-Century America’, The Journal of American History, 83/3 (Dec. 1996)
Louden-Brown, Paul, The White Star Line: An Illustrated History 1869–1934 (UK: Ship Pictorial Productions, 1992)
Marcus, Sharon, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007)
Reed, Robert C., The New York Elevated (South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1978)
Scharnhorst, Gary, Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008)
Stamp, Jimmy, ‘Traveling in Style and Comfort: The Pullman Sleeping Car’, Smithsonian.com: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/traveling-style-and-comfort-pullman-sleeping-car-180949300/
White, John H., The American Railroad Passenger Car (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978)
Whiting, Lilian, Kate Field: A Record (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1899)
On Anthony Trollope
Glendinning, Victoria, Anthony Trollope (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1993)
Grennan, Simon, Dispossession: A Novel of Few Words (London: Jonathan Cape, 2015)
Hall, N. John, ed., The Letters of Anthony Trollope, 2 volumes (California: Stanford University Press, 1983)
Trollope, Anthony, An Autobiography and Other Writings, ed. Nicholas Shrimpton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
Trollope, Anthony, Can You Forgive Her?, ed. Dinah Birch (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2012)
Trollope, Anthony, Early Short Stories, ed. John Sutherland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Trollope, Anthony, The Eustace Diamonds, ed. Helen Small (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Trollope, Anthony, The Prime Minister, ed. Nicholas Shrimpton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Trollope, Anthony, The Way We Live Now, ed. Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
On stuff
Byrne, Paula, The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things (London: HarperPress, 2013)
Connor, Steven, Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things (London: Profile Books, 2011)
Miller, Daniel, The Comfort of Things (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008)
Schor, Naomi, Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine (London: Routledge, 2007)
On trains
Ackroyd, Peter, London Under (London: Vintage, 2012)
Attlee, James, Station to Station: Searching for Stories on the Great Western Line (London: Guardian Books, 2015)
Bailey, Peter, ‘Adventures in Space: Victorian Railway Erotics, or Taking Alienation For a Ride’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 9/1 (2004), 1–21
Bissell, David, ‘Encountering stressed bodies: slow creep transformations and tipping points of commuting mobilities’, Geoforum, 51 (2014), 191–201
Brooks, Michael W., Subway City: Reading the Trains, Reading New York (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997)
Conrad, Joseph, The Return, ed. Colm Tóibín (London: Hesperus Press, 2014)
Davies, Tony, ‘Transports of Pleasure: Fiction and Its Audiences in the Later Nineteenth Century’ in Formations of Pleasure, ed. Fredric Jameson (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983), 45–58
Day, John R. and Reed, John, The Story of London’s Underground (London: Capital Transport Publishing, 2010)
Freeman, Michael, Railways and the Victorian Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
Halliday, Stephen, Underground to Everywhere: London’s Underground Railway in the Life of the Capital (Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2013)
Hayles, David, ‘Pulp Fiction for the Victorian Traveller’, The Times, 17 July 2010
‘The Kiss in the Tunnel’ (1899), https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/railways-on-film
Löfgren, Orvar, ‘Motion and Emotion: Learning to be a Railway Traveller’, Mobilities, 3/3 (2008), 331–351
MacNeice, Louis, Autumn Journal (London: Faber, 2012)
MacNeice, Louis, ‘Train to Dublin’ in Collected Poems (London: Faber, 2007), 17–18
Martin, Andrew, Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube (London: Profile Books, 2012)
Nesbit, E., The Railway Children (London: Puffin Classics, 2018)
Parissien, Steven, The English Railway Station (Swindon: Historic England, 2014)
Сапсан: Seven Years of the Sapsan Train (17 December 2016)
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, The Railway Journey: Trains and Travel in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Urizen Books, 1979)
Westwood, J. N., A History of Russian Railways (London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1964)
Wolmar, Christian, The Subterranean Railway (London: Atlantic, 2012)
On loss, death and bereavement
Barnes, Julian, Levels of Life (London: Vintage, 2014)
Dillon, Brian, In the Dark Room (London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018)
Gladwell, Malcolm, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants (London: Penguin, 2014)
Gross, Kate, Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (About this Magnificent Life) (London: William Collins, 2015)
Hill, Geoffrey, ‘In Memoriam: Gillian Rose’ in A Treatise of Civil Power (London: Penguin, 2007)
Lucie-Smith, Edward, ‘The Lesson’, A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961)
Mannix, Kathryn, With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial (London: William Collins, 2017)
Mantel, Hilary, Beyond Black (London: 4th Estate, 2014)
Miller, David, Today (London: Atlantic Books, 2011)
Picardie, Ruth, Before I Say Goodbye (London: Penguin, 1998)
Porter, Max, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (London: Faber & Faber, 2015)
Porter, Max, ‘Kneeling Shepherd’, Guardian, 28 January 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/28/max-porter-kneeling-shepherd-im-david-miller-saturday-poem
Roiphe, Katie, The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End (London: Virago, 2016)
Rose, Gillian, Love’s Work (New York: New York Review of Books Classics, 2011)
Schulz, Kathryn, ‘When Things Go Missing: reflections on two seasons of loss’, The New Yorker, 13 February 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13/when-things-go-missing
Solnit, Rebecca, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2017)
Straten, Giorgio van, In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes (London: Pushkin Press, 2017)
Tighe, J. R. and Davies, D. R., Pathology (London: Ballière Tindall, 1988)
On love and marriage
Barnes, Julian, Flaubert’s Parrot (London: Vintage, 2009)
Botton, Alain de, Essays in Love (London: Picador, 2015)
Cavell, Stanley, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981)
Connolly, Cyril, Enemies of Promise (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Drabble, Margaret, A Summer Bird-Cage (London: Penguin, 1973)
Godwin, Gail, The Odd Woman (London: Virago, 2001)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Elective Affinities: A Novel, tr. David Constantine (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008)
Heti, Sheila, How Should a Person Be? (London: Vintage, 2014)
Knight, India, In Your Prime: Older, Wiser, Happier (London: Penguin, 2015)
Knight, India, My Life on a Plate (London: Penguin, 2000)
Lurie, Alison, The War Between the Tates (London: Vintage, 1994)
Penner, Barbara, Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America (University of New Hampshire Press, 2009)
Perel, Esther, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (London: Yellow Kite, 2017)
Phillips, Adam, Monogamy (London: Faber & Faber, 1996)
Riley, Gwendoline, First Love (London: Granta, 2017)
Roiphe, Katie, In Praise of Messy Lives (Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2013)
Tobin, John, The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Five Acts (London: David Longworth, 1805)
Updike, John, Marry Me (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977)
On being a child, and on having and not having children
Adébáyò, Ayòbámi, Stay With Me (London: Canongate, 2017)
Beauvoir, Simone de, When Things of the Spirit Come First (London: Flamingo, 1983)
Binchy, Maeve, ‘Shepherd’s Bush’ in Victoria Line, Central Line (London: Arrow, 2006)
Drabble, Margaret, The Millstone (London: Canongate, 2014)
Enright, Anne, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004)
Johnson, Barbara, ‘Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion’, Diacritics, 16/1 (Spring 1986), 28–47
Jenkins, Alan, A Shorter Life (London: Chatto & Windus, 2005)
Mantel, Hilary, Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir (London: 4th Estate, 2010)
Moran, Caitlin, How to Be a Woman (London: Ebury, 2012)
Townsend, Sue, The Secret Diary and Growing Pains of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ (London: Penguin, 2017)
Wallace, David Foster, ‘Little Expressionless Animals’ in Girl with Curious Hair (London: Abacus, 1997)
On bags
Beckett, Samuel, Happy Days in The Complete Dramatic Works (London: Faber, 1986), 135–68
Dagognet, François, ‘Éloge d’un Métaobjet’ in Le Cas du Sac, sous la direction de Farid Chenoune (Paris: Hermès, 2004)
Hiner, Susan, Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
Jakobson, Roman and Halle, Morris, ‘The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles’, in Fundamentals of Language (Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2002)
Le Guin, Ursula, ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’, Dancing at the Edge of the World (London: Grove Press, 1989)
Lurie, Alison, The Language of Clothes (New York: Owl Books, 2000)
Ridge, Emily, Portable Modernisms: The Art of Travelling Light (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
Ropert, Axelle, ‘12 films, 12 sacs. Une anthologie’ in Le Cas du Sac, sous la direction de Farid Chenoune (Paris: Hermès, 2004)
On photography
Barthes, Roland, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, tr. Richard Howard (London: Vintage, 2000)
Bassham, Ben L., The Theatrical Photographs of Napoleon Sarony (Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1978)
Berger, John, Understanding a Photograph, ed. Geoff Dyer (London: Penguin, 2013)
Brewer, John, Out of the Ether: A Wet Plate Collodion Handbook (John Brewer, 2017)
Calvino, Italo, ‘The Adventure of a Photographer’, Difficult Loves (London: Mariner Books, 1985)
Pauwels, Erin, ‘Resetting the Camera’s Clock: Sarony, Muybridge & the aesthetics of wet-plate photography’, History and Technology, 31/4 (October 2015), 482–491
Vestey, Joanna, ‘Afterwords’ in Custodians (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and Oxford University Press, 2015)
On reading
Baker, Nicholson, U & I: A True Story (London: Granta, 2001)
Barnes, Julian, Flaubert’s Parrot (London: Picador, 1984)
Bayard, Pierre, How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read (London: Bloomsbury, 2007)
Flint, Kate, ‘Traveling Readers’ in The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature, ed. Rachel Ablow (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), 27–46
Halpern, Daniel, ed., Literature as Pleasure (London: Collins Harvill, 1990)
Mendelson, Edward, The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (London: Anchor Books, 2007)
Miller, Andy, The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life (London: 4th Estate, 2014)
Smith, Ali, Artful (London: Penguin, 2013)
Stewart, Garrett, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)
On space and time
Abrahamson, Eric and Freedman, David H., A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014)
Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space (London: Penguin, 2014)
Barthes, Roland, How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces, tr. Kate Briggs (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)
Bowlby, Rachel, Everyday Stories: The Literary Agenda (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Morson, Gary Saul, Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994)
On life writing
Cumming, Laura, The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez (London: Vintage, 2017)
Feigel, Lara, Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018)
Holmes, Richard, This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer (London: William Collins, 2016)
Jefferson, Margo, Negroland: A Memoir (London: Granta Books, 2016)
Knausgaard, Karl Ove, A Death in the Family (London: Vintage, 2014)
Moran, Caitlin, How to Build a Girl (London: Ebury Press, 2014)
Nelson, Maggie, The Argonauts (London: Melville House, 2016)
Schiff, Stacy, Véra: Mrs Vladimir Nabokov: A Biography (London: Random House, 1999)
Walsh, Joanna, ‘On Self-Writing’, Irish Times, 31 March 2016, https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/vertigo-author-joanna-walsh-on-self-writing-1.2592426