The footnotes and notes in the other webpages devoted to the Diary give author or title, date and page number only. Full details of all references may be found here. A date in square brackets is the year of first publication. Place of publication is not given where it is London and/or New York, or for university presses. The following items aim to include everything of significance published on the Diary. Updated 2020.

Primary (to 1914)

Allen, Grant. Philistia [as by “Cecil Power”]. Chatto & Windus, 1884.

Andom, R. [ie Arthur Walter Barrett]. Martha and I: Being Scenes from our Suburban Life. Jarrold, 1898.

Argyll, Jesse. “Outlying London—North of the Thames.” In Booth, 1902-4, Part III.

Banfield, Frank. “Mr. George Grossmith,” Cassell’s Family Magazine, 23 (June 1896), 549-556.

Baron de B.W. & Co. “Our Booking Office” [review of first edition of the Diary], Punch, 103 (23 June 1892), 34.

Black, Helen C. “Florence Marryat” in Notable Women Authors of the Day. Macmillan, 1906.

Besant, Walter. London in the Nineteenth Century. Adam & Charles Black, 1909.

Blathwayt, Raymond. ““Lions in Their Dens”: No. 11.—George Grossmith and the Humour of Him,” Idler, 3 (Feb-July 1893), 69-81.

Booth, Charles, ed. Life and Labour of the People in London. Vol. VII. Population Classified by Trades (Continued). Macmillan, 1896.

___ , ed. Life and Labour of the People in London. First Series: Poverty. 1: East, Central and South London. [1902-4]. AMS Press, 1970.

Bullock, Shan. Robert Thorne: The Story of a London Clerk. T. Werner Laurie 1907.

Burnand, Sir Francis C. Records and Reminiscences Personal and General. 2 vols. Methuen, 1904.

[Clarke, W.S.]. The Suburban Homes of London: A Residential Guide to Favourite London Localities, Their Society, Celebrities, and Associations with Notes on Their Rental, Rates, and House Accommodation. Chatto & Windus, 1881.

The Clerk; a Sketch in Outline of his Duties and Discipline. Houlston, 1878.

“Clerks by One of Them,” Chambers’s Journal, 14 (1 September 1877), 570-73.

“The Clerks who Rise,” Tit Bits, 28 Feb 1885, 320.

Colmore, G. “Family Budgets. III. Eight Hundred a Year,” Cornhill Magazine, 10 (January-June 1901), 790-800.

Cotterell, George. [Review of first edition of the Diary], Academy, 21 June 1894, 46.

Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson. The Suburbans. John Long, 1905.

Davenant, Francis. Starting in Life: Hints for Parents on the Choice of a Profession or Trade for Their Sons. Chatto & Windus, 1881.

Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend [1864-5]. Oxford UP, 1952.

Downey, Edmund. Twenty Years Ago: A Book of Anecdote Illustrating Literary Life in London. Hurst & Blackett, 1905.

Felicitas, “Another Family Budget,” National Review, 23 (May 1894), 403-408.

“George Grossmith Interviewed,” Era, 31 March 1888.

Gissing, George. Thyrza: A Tale [1887]. Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1927.

___ . New Grub Street [1891]. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.

Grossmith, George. A Society Clown: Reminiscences. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1888.

___ . Piano and I: Further Reminiscences. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1910.

Grossmith, Weedon. A Woman with a History. F.V. White, 1896.

___ . From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith Written by Himself. John Lane, 1913.

Howard, Keble [ie John Keble Bell]. The Smiths of Surbiton: A Comedy without a Plot. Chapman & Hall, 1906.

Humphrey, C.E. Manners for Men. Ward Lock, 1898.

Hyde, John. “George Grossmith to an Audience of One,” Windsor Magazine, 6 (August 1897), 273-277.

“The Last Days of Mr Clerk,” Pearson’s Weekly. 6 January 1894, 396.

Layard, G. S. “Family Budgets. II. A Lower-Middle-Class Budget,” Cornhill Magazine, 10 (January-June 1901), 656-666.

Marryat, Florence. There is No Death [1891]. Psychic Press, 1938.

Masterman, C.F.G. In Peril of Change: Essays Written in Time of Tranquility. T. Fisher Unwin, 1905.

___ . The Condition of England. Methuen, 1909.

Member of the Aristocracy. Manners and Rules of Good Society, or, Solecisms to be Avoided. Warne, 1887.

“Mr George Grossmith’s New Sketches,” Magazine of Music, 11 (February 1894), 44.

“Mr George Grossmith,” Strand Musical Magazine (April 1895), 253.

“Mr Weedon Grossmith,” Theatre, 1 September 1892, 91-92.

Morris, William. “Ugly London,” Pall Mall Gazette, 4 September 1888, 1-2.

Mortimer, Geoffrey [ie Walter Matthes Gallichan]. The Blight of Respectability: An Anatomy of the Disease and a Theory of Curative Treatment. Watford: The University Press, 1897.

Naylor, Stanley. Gaiety and George Grossmith. Random reflections on the Serious Business of Enjoyment. Stanley Paul, 1913.

“Our Booking Office” [review of A Society Clown], Punch, 95 (29 September 1888), 146.

Pain, Barry. Eliza. [1900] Cassell, 1908.

____. Eliza Getting On. Cassell, 1911.

Panton, Jane Ellen. From Kitchen to Garret. Hints for Young Householders. Seventh Edition. Ward & Downey, 1890.

Parsons, Charles Edward. Clerks; Their Position and Advancement. Addressed to Parents, Employers, and Employed. Provost, 1876.

Peel, Dorothy. The New Home. Constable, 1898.

Pritchard, Rosalind, ed. London and Londoners, 1898. What to See, What to Know, What to Do, Where to Shop, and Practical Hints. Scientific Press, 1898.

“Portraits: Mr and Mrs Weedon Grossmith,” Theatre, 1 September 1895, 129.

“Prof Baldwin’s Leap from a Balloon,” Times [London], 30 July 1888, 6.

“Prof Baldwin’s Final Descent from a Balloon before his Departure for Australia,” Times [London], 31 October 1888, 11.

[Review of A Society Clown], Spectator, 61 (1888), 1268.

[Review of first edition of the Diary], Athenaeum, 13 August 1892, 223.

[Review of first edition of the Diary], Saturday Review, 74 (23 June 1892), 116.

[Review of the 1910 edition of the Diary], Bookman, 39 (28 March 1910), 50+ D.

[Review of the 1919 edition of the Diary], Bookman, 57 (Dec 1919 [Supp]), 96.

Ridge, W. Pett. Outside the Radius: Stories of a London Suburb. Hodder & Stoughton, 1899.

Roberts, W. “Life on a Guinea a Week,” Nineteenth Century, 23 (March 1888), 464-7.

Sala, G.A. London Up to Date. Adam & Charles Black, 1894.

[Stephen, James Fitzjames.] “Gentlemen,” Cornhill Magazine, 5 (March 1862), 327-342.

St. Helier, Mary Jeune. Memories of Fifty Years. Edward Arnold, 1909.

The Story of a London Clerk: A Faithful Narrative Faithfully Told. Leadenhall Press, 1896.

“A Tale of Two Interests” [review of From Studio to Stage], Bookman, 44 (May 1913), 94.

Theobald, Morell. Spirit Workers in the Home Circle: An Autobiographic Narrative of Psychic Phenomena in Family Daily Life Extending over a Period of Twenty Years. T. Fisher Unwin, 1887.

W.B. “A Chat about Two Popular Entertainers,” Magazine of Music, 12 (May 1895), 104.

Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds. Heinemann, 1898.

White, Robert. “Wanted: A Rowton House for Clerks,” Nineteenth Century, 42 (October 1897), 594-601.

Zedlitz, Baroness Von. “Some Stage Stars XV: A Chat with George Grossmith,” Englishwoman, 4 (February 1897), 491-5.

Secondary (after 1914)

Abbott, H. Porter. Diary Fiction: Writing as Action. Cornell UP, 1984.

Anderson, G.L. “The Social Economy of Late-Victorian Clerks.” In Crossick, 1977.

Anderson, Gregory. Victorian Clerks. Manchester UP, 1976.

Bailey, Peter. “White Collars, Gray Lives? The Lower Middle Class Revisited,” Journal of British Studies, 38:3 (July 1999), 273-290.

Barrett, H. and J. Phillips. Suburban Style: The British Home 1840-1960. Macdonald, 1987.

Bashford, Henry Howarth. Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself [1924]. Prion, 2000.

Bergonzi, Bernard. “Bernard Bergonzi on The Diary of a Nobody,” Observer Magazine [London], 3 June 1979, 41.

Betjeman, John. A Few Late Chrysanthemums. Murray, 1954.

___ . “Thoughts on The Diary of a Nobody,” Punch, 228 (25 May 1955), 627.

Blakemore, H. “John Thomas North, the Nitrate King,” History Today, 12 (July 1962), 467-475.

Brandon, Ruth. The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Knopf, 1983.

Breward, Christopher. The Hidden Consumer. Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914. Manchester UP, 1999.

Butler, Ivan. “Charles the Ripper…?” In Goodman, 1992.

Calder, Jenny. The Victorian Home. Batsford, 1977.

Carey, John. “The Suburbs and the Clerks” in The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939. Faber & Faber, 1992.

Carr, Philip. “The Grossmiths and Mr Pooter,” Listener (23 Sep 1954), 481.

Chapman, Raymond. The Victorian Debate: English Literature and Society 1832-1901. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.

Cobley, Paul. Narrative. Routledge, 2001.

Creedon, Alison. “Subversion in the Suburbs,” English Review, 13:4 (April 2003), 37-9.

Crossick, Geoffrey. “The Emergence of the Lower Middle Class in Britain: A Discussion.” In Crossick, 1977.

___ , ed. The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870-1914. Croom Helm, 1977.

Davis, Clive. “Somebody Still Cares about the Nobodies,” Times [London], 23 July 1991.

Early, Julie English. “Technology, Modernity, and 'the Little Man’: Crippen’s Capture by Wireless,” Victorian Studies, 39:3 (1996), 309-338.

Eisenbud, Jule. “Florence Marryat” in Parapsychology and the Unconscious. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books 1983.

Ellis, H. F. The World of A.J. Wentworth, B.A. [1949 & 1962]. Penguin, 1964.

Field, Trevor. Form and Function in the Diary Novel. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.

Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones’s Diary. Picador, 1996.

Findon, B.W. “George and Weedon Grossmith: A Memoir” in The Diary of a Nobody. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1920.

Flanders, Judith. The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed. HarperCollins, 2003.

Flint, Kate. “Introduction” in The Diary of a Nobody. Oxford UP, 1995.

____ . “Fictional Suburbia.” In Humm, Stigent and Widdowson, 1986.

Gale, Stephen H., ed. Encyclopedia of British Humorists. 2 vols. Garland, 1996.

Gallagher, Donat, ed. Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh. Methuen, 1983.

Geffrye Museum. Mr Pooter’s London. Guide to an exhibition from 17 Nov 1988—26 Feb 1989. Geffrye Museum, 1988.

Geddes-Brown, Leslie. “Upwardly Mobile Nobodies,” Country Life, 3 Nov 1988, 228-230.

Glinert, Ed. “Introduction” in The Diary of a Nobody. Penguin, 1999.

___ . Literary Guide to London. Penguin, 2000.

Goodman, Jonathan, ed. Masterpieces of Murder. Robinson, 1992.

Grossmith, George [junior]. GG: Reminiscences of Nearly Half a Century. Hutchinson, 1933.

Hall, Trevor. The Spiritualists. The Story of Florence Cook and William Crookes. Duckworth, 1962.

Hammard, M.C. “Les Divertissements de la Famille Pooter,” Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 19 (1984), 11-21.

Hammerton, A. James. Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-century Married Life. Routledge, 1992.

____ . “Pooterism or Partnership?: Marriage and Masculine Identity in the Lower Middle Class, 1870-1920,” Journal of British Studies, 38:3 (1999), 291-321.

____ . “The Perils of Mrs Pooter: Satire, Modernity and Motherhood in the Lower Middle Class in England, 1870-1920,” Women’s History Review, 8:2 (1999), 261-276.

____ . “The English Weakness? Gender, Satire and ‘Moral Manliness’ in the Lower Middle Class, 1870-1920”. In Kidd & Nicholls, 1999.

Hapgood, Lynne. Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture 1880-1925. Manchester UP, 2005.

Harris, Frank. My Life and Loves [1922-c.1934]. Corgi, 1966.

Harrison, J.F.C. Late Victorian Britain 1875-1901. London & NY: Routledge, 1991.

Hassam, Andrew. Writing and Reality: A Study of Modern British Diary Fiction. Greenwood, 1992.

Henkle, Roger B. “From Pooter to Pinter: Domestic Comedy and Vulnerability,” Critical Quarterly, 16:2 (1974), 174-189.

___ . Comedy and Culture: England 1820-1900. Princeton UP, 1980.

Holt, Jim. “I Yield to Nobody,” New York Times Book Review, 2 July 2000, 23.

Hosgood, Christopher P. “Mrs Pooter’s Purchase: Lower-middle-class Consumerism and the Sales, 1870-1914”. In Kidd & Nicholls, 1999.

Humm, Peter, Paul Stigent and Peter Widdowson, eds. Popular Fictions: Essays in Literature and History. Methuen, 1986.

Inwood, Stephen. A History of London. Macmillan 1998.

Irwin, Michael. “Introduction” in The Diary of a Nobody. Ware: Wordsworth, 1994.

Jackson, A.A. Semi-Detached London. Suburban Development, Life and Transport 1900-1939. Allen & Unwin, 1973.

James, A.R. “George and Weedon Grossmith’s The Diary of a Nobody,” Book & Magazine Collector, 78 (September 1990), 40-7.

J.H. “Introduction” in The Diary of a Nobody. Drawings by John Lawrence. Folio Society, 1969.

Johnson, J. & A. Greutzner. Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940. Antique Collectors’ Club, 1976.

Johnson, Jan-Christine. “Discovering George Grossmith in Folkestone,” Gaiety (Spring 2005), 37-43.

Joseph, Tony. George Grossmith: Biography of a Savoyard. Bristol: Tony Joseph, 1982.

____ . “George Grossmith (1847-1912): A List of His Works.” Unpublished MS, 2003.

Keown, Eric. “At the Play” [review of the Dean/Blake adaptation], Punch, 227 (8 September 1954), 326.

Kidd, Alan J. & David Nicholls, eds. Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940. Manchester UP, 1999.

Kilgarriff, Michael. Grace, Beauty & Banjoes. Oberon Books, 1999.

____ . Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song 1860-1920. Oxford UP, 1998.

Kingsmill, Hugh. Frank Harris. Lehmann, 1949.

Kynaston, David. The Financial Times: A Centenary History. Viking, 1988.

Lancaster, Osbert. “Du Côté de Chez Pooter,” Listener, 45 (21 June 1951), 995.

Langford, Rachael, and Russell West. Marginal Voices, Marginal Forms: Diaries in European Literature and History. Amsterdam/Atlanta, Ga: Rodopi, 1999.

Lewis, D.B. Wyndham. “Panegyric of a Hero” in At the Sign of the Blue Moon. Andrew Melrose, 1924.

Lockwood, David. The Blackcoated Worker: A Study in Class Consciousness. 2nd ed. Oxford UP, 1989.

Loos, Anita. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady [1925]. Hamish Hamilton, 1966.

Lubbock, Tom. “[Review of a radio reading of the Diary],” Independent [London], 20 August 1996, 26.

Lucy, Henry. The Diary of a Journalist. Fresh Extracts. Vol. III. Murray, 1923.

McEwen, John. “Centenary of a Nobody,” Independent Magazine, 11 March 1989, 58-61.

McCrum, Robert. “The Hundred Greatest Novels of All Time,” Observer (Review), 12 October 2003, 1-2.

MacGillivray, Royce & Paul Beam. “Acceptance in Holloway: The Diary of a Nobody,” Queen’s Quarterly, 77 (1970), 600-613.

MacInnes, Colin. “Groovy Lupin,” Encounter, 31 (Sep 1968), 78-81.

Marcus, Laura & Peter Nicholls, eds. The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature. Cambridge UP, 2005.

Marsden, Gordon, ed. Victorian Values. Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth-century Society. 2nd ed. Longman, 1998.

Marshall, John & Ian Willcox. The Victorian House. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986.

Matthew, Christopher. The Diary of a Somebody. Hutchinson, 1978.

___ . “Introduction” in The Diary of a Nobody. Stroud: Sutton, 1991.

Mitchell, Sally, ed. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopaedia. Garland, 1988.

Morton, Peter. “‘The Funniest Book in the World’: Waugh and The Diary of a Nobody,” Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies, 36:1 (Spring 2005).

___ . “Pootering About,” History Today, 55:10 (October 2005), 28-29.

Moseley, Merritt. “The Diary of a Nobody and the Humor of Suburban Life,” Whimsy, 6 (1988), 53-55.

___ . “George Grossmith. Walter Weedon Grossmith.” In Gale, 1996, 491-4.

OED Online. Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 1989 (ed. J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner), Additions 1993-7 (ed. John Simpson and Edmund Weiner; Michael Proffitt), and 3rd ed. (in progress) March 2000- (ed. John Simpson). URL: http://dictionary.oed.com

Oppenheim, Janet. The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England 1850-1914. Cambridge UP, 1985.

Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England. Virago, 1989.

Pearsall, Ronald. The Table-rappers. Michael Joseph, 1972.

Pearson, Hesketh. Gilbert and Sullivan: A Biography [1935]. Hamish Hamilton, 1951.

Porter, Dilwyn. “‘A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public’: Harry Marks and the Financial News 1884-1916,” Business History, 28:1 (Jan 1986), 1-17.

Priestley, J.B. English Humour. Longman’s, Green, 1929.

Price, R.G.G. A History of Punch. Collins, 1957.

Pryce-Jones, Alan. “Introduction” in The Diary of a Nobody. London & Glasgow: Collins, 1968.

Pullar, Phillipa. Frank Harris. Hamish Hamilton, 1975.

Saint, Andrew. London Suburbs. Merell Holberton/English Heritage, 1999.

Saunders, Max. “Biography and Autobiography”. In Marcus & Nichols, 2004.

Scott, Margaret. Old Days in Bohemian London (Recollections of Clement Scott). Hutchinson, 1919.

Shonfield, Zuzanna. The Precariously Privileged. Oxford UP, 1987.

Spurr, Geoffrey D. “The London YMCA: A Haven of Masculine Self-improvement and Socialization for the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Clerk,” Canadian Journal of History, 37 (August 2002), 275-301.

Squire, J.C. “Introduction” in The Diary of a Nobody. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1924.

Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. Faber, 2001.

Tindall, Gillian. “Pooter’s England,” New Society, 5 February 1970, 229.

___ . The Fields Beneath. The History of One London Village. Temple Smith, 1977.

Tosh, John and Michael Roper, eds. Manful Assertions. Routledge, 1991.

Tosh, John. “New Men?: The Bourgeois Cult of Home.” In Marsden, 1998.

___ . A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-class Home in Victorian England. Yale UP, 1999.

Townsend, Sue. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾. Methuen, 1982.

Trevor, William. “On the Shelf,” Sunday Times [London], 23 February 1997.

___ . “Introduction” in The Diary of a Nobody. Prion, 1999.

Viewing, Gerald. Exchange and Mart: Selected Issues 1868-1948. Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1970.

Waterhouse, Keith. Mrs Pooter’s Diary [1983]. Black Swan, 1984.

___ . The Collected Letters of a Nobody Including Mr Pooter’s Advice to his Son [1986]. Grafton 1987.

Waugh, Evelyn. “One Way to Immortality,” Daily Mail [London], 28 June 1930. Reprinted in Gallagher, 1983.

___ . A Handful of Dust [1934]. Penguin, 2000.

___ . Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder [1945]. Chapman & Hall, 1960.

Webster, Roger. Expanding Suburbia. Reviewing Suburban Narratives. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000.

Weinreb, Ben & Christopher Hibbert, eds. The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 1983.

West, Richard. “Nobody at Home,” Independent Magazine, 30 May 1992, 64-7.

Wheen, Francis. “Wheen’s World: Pooter the Party Pooper,” Guardian, 28 August 1996, T5.

Wild, Jonathan. The Rise of the Office Clerk in Literary Culture, 1880-1939. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Wilson, A. N. Eminent Victorians. BBC Books, 1989.

Xanthias. “Causerie on Books” [review of Macmillan reprint of Diary], Queen’s Quarterly, 27 (1920), 452.