Bibliography

 An extensive, but not exhaustive, “Preliminary Checklist of Writings by and about William North” was compiled and lightly annotated by Paige Life, Patrick G. Scott, and Allan Life for the Spring 2009 special issue of the Victorian Newsletter dedicated to “The Elusive William North.”  The following list of sources builds upon the fourth section of their bibliography, “Selected References about William North,” to which are added older works subsequently discovered and recent scholarship subsequently published.  Sources are listed in chronological order of appearance:

“Anti-Coningsby.” Hunt’s London Journal no. 22 (30 Nov. 1844): 278-79.

“Anti-Coningsby.” Fraser’s Magazine 31.2 (Feb. 1845): 211-22.

“Flashes from ‘The Great Gun.’” The New World 10.13 (29 Mar. 1845): 200.

“Egypt and Mehemet Ali.” The Dublin Review 19.37 (Sep. 1845): 174-95, esp. p. 185.

“The Imposter.”  The Literary Gazette 1508 (13 Dec. 1845): 826.

“The Imposter.”  The Critic 2.46 (15 Nov. 1845): 576.

[Reports of bankruptcy petition by William North.] London Gazette 13 Apr. 1847: 28; 25 June 1847: 41.

“Poetic Meditations” [in “Books Received]. The London Journal 8.190 (14 Oct. 1848): 95.

“Commercial Life in London.” Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine and Commercial Review 23 (July-Dec. 1850): 699.

“​The City of the Jugglers; or, Free Trade in Souls​.” ​Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine​ 17 (1850): 453-54.

“Critical and Miscellaneous Notices: 11. –The City of the Jugglers; or, Free Trade in Souls.”  Westminster Review​ 54.106 (Oct. 1850–Jan. 1851): 134-35.

“​The City of the Jugglers; or, Free Trade in Souls.​” ​The ​​Literary World​ 7.24 (14 Dec.1850): 481.

“The Infinite Republic: A Spiritual Revolution.” The Critic 10.245 (14 Jun. 1851): 281-82.

“The Infinite Republic.” Reynolds’s Newspaper, iss. 49 (20 July 1851): 2.

“Controverted Authorship.” The Knickerbocker 41.3 (Mar. 1853): 273-90, pp. 283-84.

“Vathek” in “Notices of New Books.” New York Daily Times 7 Apr. 1853: 3.

“Editor’s Portfolio.” Pen and Pencil 1.16 (16 Apr. 1853): 499-500.

[Clark, Lewis Gaylord]. “Gossip with Readers and Correspondents.” The Knickerbocker 41.5 (May 1853): 464-78, p. 478.

[Clark, Lewis Gaylord]. “Gossip with Readers and Correspondents.” The Knickerbocker 42.1 (July 1853): 97-109, p. 106.

“No Smoke, Chimneys, Boilers, or Coal.” Scientific American 8.3 (9 July 1853): 341.

“The Automaton Man.” New York Daily Times 11 Apr. 1854: 4.

“Amusements.” New York Daily Times 18 Apr. 1854: 1.

“Death of Mr. William North.” New York Daily Times 15 Nov. 1854: 4.

“Matters of Mention” Circular 3.149 (16 Nov. 1854): 594.

“Mr. William North.” New York Daily Times 16 Nov. 1854: 4.

“Suicide of Mr. William North.” New York Daily Times 16 Nov. 1854: 3.

“Summary” New York Observer and Chronicle 32.47 (23 Nov. 1854): 375.

“Suicide.” Liberator 24.47 (24 Nov. 1854): 188.

“William North.” Circular 3.153 (25 Nov. 1854): 610.

“Suicide of an Englishman at New York.” Daily News [London] 5 Dec. 1854: 3.

“Quill and Scissors” Flag of Our Union 9.50 (16 Dec. 1854): 397.

“Preface” to William North, The Slave of the Lamp (New York: H. Long, 1855): vii-xii.

“Literary News.” The Critic 14.330 (1 Jan. 1855): 26.

“William North.” Gentleman’s Magazine (Jan. 1855): 109.

“Recent Deaths.” ​Norton’s Literary Gazette​ 2.1 (1 Jan. 1855): 13.

[Clark, Lewis Gaylord.] “Gossip with Readers and Correspondents.” The Knickerbocker 45.2 (Feb. 1855): 192-220, pp. 201-202.

“The Slave of the Lamp.” New York Daily Times 18 Apr. 1855: 2.

“The Slave of the Lamp.” Albion 14.16 (21 Apr. 1855): 189.

“The Slave of the Lamp.” United States Review 35.5 (May 1855): 417-18.

“The Slave of the Lamp.” The Spirit of the Times 25.13 (12 May 1855): 146.

“Literary Notices: The Slave of the Lamp.” Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine 50 (June 1855): 563.

P., R. D. “Ode to My Pipe.” United States Review 36.1 (July 1855): 29-31, headnote.

“A Chance for Spiritualists.” New York Daily Times 17 Oct. 1855: 4.

“‘The Diamond Lens’—A Literary Controversy.” New York Times 26 Feb. 1858: 1.

“Small Literary Rows.” New York Times 26 Feb. 1858: 4.

Picton, Thomas. “The Diamond Lens Controversy.” New York Times 27 Feb. 1858: 4.

“Note from Mr. Fitz-James O’Brien.” New York Times 1 Mar. 1858: 4.

“The Diamond Lens Controversy.” New York Times 5 Mar. 1858: 2.

“Literary Intelligence.” American Publisher’s Circular and Literary Gazette 4.10 (6 Mar. 1858): 110-12.

“Literary Intelligence.” American Publisher’s Circular and Literary Gazette 4.11 (13 Mar. 1858): 121-22.

“Last Words on the Diamond Lens Controversy.” New York Times 19 Mar. 1858: 2.

“Remarkable Suicides.” The Living Age, no. 745 [enlarged ser. no. 23] (4 Sept. 1858): 766.

Fairfield, Jane. The Autobiography of Jane Fairfield: Embracing a Few Select Poems by Sumner Lincoln Fairfield. Boston: Bazin and Ellsworth, 1860, pp. 217-23.

“The Homes of Literary Men.” Boston Review 1.6 (Nov. 1861): 528-38, p. 528.

“Lieut. Fitz James O’Brien.” Harper’s Weekly 6.278 (26 Apr. 1862): 267.

Arnold, George. “O’Brien’s Personal Characteristics.” New York Citizen 2.59 (30 Sept. 1865): 7. [reprinted in The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O’Brien. Ed. William Winter. Boston: Osgood, 1881. xlvi-liii, pp. l-li.]

Arnold, George. “Journalist and Poet.” New York Saturday Press 4.10 (7 Oct. 1865): 146-47.

Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine 72 (1866): 553.

“Literariana. American.” The Round Table 3.32 (14 Apr. 1866): 228.

“Literariana. American.” The Round Table 3.33 (21 Apr. 1866): 245.

[Clapp, Henry Jr.] [Editorial comments.] New-York Saturday Press 5.21 (26 May 1866): 4. [see also Bissell (1890)]

“Facetiae.” The London Journal 44.1117 (7 July 1866): 14-15, p. 14.

[Briggs, C. F.] “The Old and the New.” Putnam’s Magazine 1.1 (Jan. 1868): 1-5, p. 2.

Rossetti, William Michael. “Allegories and Parables. 2. The City of the Jugglers, or Free Trade in Souls.” Notes and Queries 4th ser. 2 (14 Nov. 1868): 472.

Browne, Junius Henri. The Great Metropolis; A Mirror of New York. Hartford: American Publishing, 1869, pp. 155-56.

Halkett, Samuel. Notes and Queries 4th ser. 4.3 (12 June 1869): 566.

“Catalogue of Mr. William Gowan’s Stock: No. 1, Theology, Ecclesiastical History, &c. Part 1.” Qtd. in ​Executors’ Sale​. Ed. by J. Sabin and Sons, 1871.

Allibone, S. Austin. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature. Vol. 2. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1872. 1426.

Kingman, L. W. “The Comic Periodicals of America.” The American Bibliopolist 7.73 (Dec. 1875): 262-65.

Mackay, Charles. “The Noble Spirits” in Selected Poems and Songs of Charles Mackay. London: Whittaker and Co., 1888. 51-55, dedication.

Lukens, Henry Clay. “American Literary Comedians.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 80.479 (Apr. 1890): 783-97, p. 793.

Bissell, Champion. “The Truth about Wines.” Belford’s Magazine 5.30 (Nov. 1890): 837-54, p. 854. [see also Clapp (1866)]

Vizetelly, Henry. Glances Back Through Seventy Years. Vol. 1. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1893, pp. 323, 330-31, 337-38.

Bissell, Champion. “Fitz-James O’Brien and His Time.” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine 53 (May 1894): 703-05.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family-Letters with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti. 2 vols. London: Ellis & Elvey, 1895, pp. I:150, I:170, I:194, II:48-49, II:50.

Spielmann, M. H. The History of “Punch.” London: Cassell, 1895, p. 240.

Hillyer, William Sidney. “William North. The Romance of This Poet’s Life His Sad Death and Forgotten Name.” New York Times 18 Mar. 1899: 24.

Edwards, H. Sutherland. Personal Recollections. London: Cassell, 1900, pp. 80-83.

Rossetti, William Michael, ed. Proeraphaelite Diaries and Letters. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1900, pp. 214, 240, 257, 291, 294.

Dunlop, George. “Rossetti’s Copy of Poe’s ‘Erekau. [sic]’” New York Times 26 July 1902: BR9.

McCann, John Ernest. “Not by William North.” New York Times 9 Aug. 1902: BR12.

Senex [pseud.]. “A Slender Sheaf of Memories.” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine 70.420 (Dec. 1902): 605-17.

Rossetti, William Michael. Some Reminiscences. Vol. 1. New York: Scribner’s, 1906, pp. 166-168.

Winter, William. Old Friends: Being Literary Recollections of Other Days. New York: Moffat, Yard, 1909, pp. 67-69, 313-17.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Ed. W. M. Rossetti. London: Ellis, 1911, p. 271.

Boase, Frederic. “William North,” Modern English Biography. Vol. 6 [Supplement, LZ]. (N.p.: privately printed, 1921): 305.

Parry, Albert. Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America. New York: Covici, Friede, 1933, pp. 49, 52, 55-56, 64.

Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines, 1850-1865. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1938, pp. 183-85, 420, 424.

Wolle, Francis. Fitz-James O’Brien: A Literary Bohemian of the Eighteen-Fifties. Boulder, Col.: University of Colorado, 1944. University of Colorado Studies. Set. B. Studies in the Humanities, 2.2 (May 1944), pp. 66-70, 73, 82, 156-57, 177, 227.

Sadleir, Michael. XIX Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Record. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge UP for Constable, [1951], pp. 110 (item 709b), 279 (item 1835).

Hamilton, Sinclair. “William North and the Blond Poetess.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 23 (1962): 41-53.

Rossetti, William Michael. The P.R.B. Journal: William Michael Rossetti’s Diary of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1849-1853. Ed. William E. Fredeman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975, pp. 10, 15, 28, 34, 46, 53, 63, 85, 123, 196, 226.

Sutherland, John. “William North,” The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1989, p. 468.

Rossetti, William Michael. Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Ed. Roger W. Peattie. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1990, pp. 26-28, 59-60.

Rossetti, Christina. The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Ed. Antony H. Harrison. Vol. 1: 1843-1873. 1997. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1997, pp. 22-23, 25, 5153, 65, 89-90.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Vols. 1-2. Ed. William E. Fredeman et al. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2002, Vol. 1: letters 48.9; 49.8; 49.11; 51.1; 51.24; 52.1; 52.2; 53.1; 54.10; 54.72; Vol 2: letters 55.4; 55.6.

Brown, Jane E., and Richard Samuel West. “William Newman (1817-1870): A Victorian Cartoonist in London and New York.” American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography 17.2 (2007): 143-83, pp. 159, 161.

Millington, Jon. William Beckford: A Bibliography. Warminster: The Beckford Society, 2008, pp. 258-60.

Scott, Patrick. “Introducing a ‘Lost’ Victorian Novel: The Elusive William North and The City of the Jugglers (1850),” The Victorian Newsletter 115 (Spring 2009): 7-15.

Lamouria, Lanya.  “North’s The City of the Jugglers (1850) and the European Revolutions of 1848.”  The Victorian Newsletter 115 (Spring 2009): 16-28.

Whitley, Edward and Robert Weidman.  “The (After) Life of William North among the New York Bohemians.”  The Victorian Newsletter 115 (Spring 2009): 29-45.

Stern, Rebecca.  “The City of the Jugglers and the Limits of Victorian Fiction.”  The Victorian Newsletter 115 (Spring 2009): 46-51.

Life, Allan and Page Life.  “North versus North: William North (1825-1854) in Light of New Documentation.”  The Victorian Newsletter 115 (Spring 2009): 55-94.

Life, Page, Patrick Scott, and Allan Life.  “A Preliminary Checklist of Writings by and about William North (1825-1854).”  The Victorian Newsletter 115 (Spring 2009): 95-114.

Scott, Patrick G.  “‘I had never before . . . heard of him at all’: William Gilmore Simms, the Elusive William North, and a Lost Simms Novel about American Authorship.”  Simms Review 19.1-2 (2011): 5-17.

Pionke, Albert D. “William North’s ​The City of the Jugglers​ and the ‘Conventional Necessity’ of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fiction.” ​Studies in the Novel​ 47.2 (Summer 2015): 158-175.

Lamouria, Lanya. “Financial Revolution: Representing British Financial Crisis After the French Revolution of 1848.” ​Victorian Literature and Culture​ 43.3 (2015): 489-510, pp. 493, 500-503.

Scott, Patrick G.  “The Satirist Satirized: Thackeray’s Snobs and William North’s Anti-Punch.”  Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature: A Tribute to John Sutherland.  Ed. William Baker.  Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015, pp. 193-204.

Citation: Pionke, Albert D. "Bibliography." William North’s The City of the Jugglers, edited by Albert D. Pionke et al, COVE Editions, 2020, https://editions.covecollective.org/edition/city-jugglers/bibliography.