The following are the critical and primary sources most frequently consulted or directly cited for this project’s pages and Hypothesis annotations. However, this list does not include all of the resources linked in the annotations to the Pearson’s Magazine installments.
Beck, Peter J. The War of the Worlds from H. G. Wells to Orson Wells, Jeff Wayne, Steven Spielberg and Beyond. Bloomsbury, 2016.
Brake, Laurel. “The ‘Trepidation of the Spheres’: The Serial and the Book in the 19th Century.” Serials and Their Readers 1620-1914. Edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris. St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1993, pp. 83-101.
Brake, Laurel, and Marysa Demoor, editors. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press and The British Library, 2009.
Crossley, Robert. “The Grandeur of H.G. Wells,” A Companion to Science Fiction, edited by David Seed, Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp. 353-363.
Houfe, Simon. The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, 1800-1914. Baron Publishing, 1981.
Kent, Christopher A. “Victorian Periodicals and the Constructing of Victorian Reality.” Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research, Volume 2. Edited by J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel. The Modern Language Association, 1989, pp. 1-12.
King, Andrew, et al, editors. The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers. Routledge, 2016.
Machray, Robert. “The Terrible Trades of Sheffield.” Illustrated by Warwick Goble. Pearson’s Magazine, no. 15, March 1897, pp. 290-298.
Mussell, James. “Teaching Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Using Digital Resources: Myths and Methods.” Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 45, no. 2, Summer 2012, pp. 201-209.
Wells, H. G. A Critical Edition of The War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells’s Scientific Romance, with Introduction and Notes by David Y. Hughes and Harry M. Geduld. Edited by Harry M. Geduld. Indiana UP, 1993.
—. H. G. Wells, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds: A Critical Edition. Edited by Frank McConnell. Oxford UP, 1977.
—. The War of the Worlds. Edited by Martin A. Danahay. Broadview Press, 2003.
—. The War of the Worlds: A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations and Appendices. Edited by Leon Stover. McFarland and Company, Inc, 2001.
—. “The War of the Worlds: Illustrated by Johan Briedé.” The Strand Magazine, no. 350, February 1920, pp. 154–163.
—. “The War of the Worlds: Originally published in Pearson’s Magazine April-December 1897.” The Collector’s Book of Science Fiction by H. G. Wells from Rare, Original, Illustrated Magazines. Edited by Alan K. Russell. Castle Books, 1978.
Yeffeth, Glenn, editor. The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H. G. Wells Classic. Benbella Books, 2005.
