About At the Circulating Library

History

At the Circulating Library (ATCL) was created by Troy J. Bassett, assistant professor of English and Linguistics at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), to provide biographical and bibliographical data about the countless authors, publishers, and novels of the Victorian period (1837-1901). It has been greatly inspired by the two bibliographical websites British Fiction 1800-1829 and The English Novel, 1830-36. ATCL aims to continue where these two predecessors end. In addition, the website draws heavily on John Sutherland's brilliant and indispensable book The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction as a model for its entries.

The beta version of the website appeared in summer 2007 with a test database of approximately 1700 titles. The basis of the database is The English Catalogue of Books beginning with the "small" subset of three-volume novels. A special thank you to Patrick Leary who generously offered to host ATCL at his website Victoria Research Web.

The project has been generously funded by a 2008 IPFW Summer Faculty Grant.

Contributors

If you would like to contribute corrections, data entry, author biographies, publisher biographies, title summaries, or serialization information, please contact Troy J. Bassett (bassettt@ipfw.edu).

How to Cite

At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901. Ed. Troy J. Bassett. 2007. [date of access] (http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl).

Technical Notes

This website was written on a Macintosh using a MySQL database and PHP.