Bibliographies: building worlds
I suppose it's odd of me, but I enjoy research. Sometimes I have trouble tearing myself away from yet another book to start writing.
I'm often curious about what books another writer has used to build their concepts of worlds and characters. In case you're like me, here's a sampling of the books I've poked through for some of my works-in-progress. The lists are not complete, but I'll try to add most of the important sources as I go.
Folklore and Magic find their way into most of my stories
Briggs, Katherine. The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
Evans, George Ewart. The Pattern Under the Plough
Flowers, Stephen. The Galdrabok: an Icelandic Grimoire
Kirk, Robert. The Secret Common-wealth
Northall, G.F. English Folk Rhymes
Taylor, Archer. English Riddles from Oral Tradition
Thompson, Stith. The Folktale
Storms, G. Anglo-Saxon Magic
Material Culture, or everyday life, is something that fascinates me (I know, I'm a geek)
Cobbett, William. Cottage Economy
Hartley, Dorothy. Lost Country Life
Markham, Gervase. The English Housewife
Willow Knot bibliography:
Bruford, W.H. Germany in the Eighteenth Century
Fearn, Thatchers and Thatching
Freethy, Ron. Woodlands of Britain
Grimm's Tales for Young and Old
Groves, Sylvia. History of Needlework Tools and Accessories
Heseltine, Alastair. Baskets and Basketmaking
Kerner, Roger. Bohemia in the Eighteenth Century
Royal Palace of Visegrad
Secret Memoirs of the Princess Lamballe
Warren-Wren, S.C. Willows
Watkin, David. Royal Interiors of Regency England
Cost of Silver bibliography:
Cony-Catchers and Bawdy Baskets
The English Civil War Armies (Men-at-Arms series)
Holmes, Reg. Cromwell's Ely
James, M. R. Suffolk and Norfolk
Lindley, Keith. Fenland Riots and the English Revolution
Peters, Simon. The Witchfinder and the Devil's Darlings
Robbins, The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel
Gaskill, Malcolm. Witchfinders: a seventeenth-century English tragedy
MacFarlane, Alan. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
Sharpe, James. Instruments of Darkness
Fate of the Dead bibliography
Wood. The English Medieval House
History of the County of Suffolk
West, Harold Mills. Ghosts of East Anglia
Brown, Theo. The Fate of the Dead
Cotton, William Charles. My Bee Book
Children of Mercury bibliography
Life of Benvenuto Cellini
Cennini, Cennino. The Craftsman's Handbook
Thomas, Anabel. Painter's Practice in Renaissance Tuscany
Antal, Frederick. Florentine Painting and its Social Background
Edgerton, Samuel. Pictures and Punishment
Stern, Laura. The Criminal Law System of Medieval and Renaissance Florence
On the Transmontane Run (short story) bibliography
Abbott, Patrick. The British airship at war 1914-18 Beaubois, Henry. Dirigeables: histoire illustree Bradley, Glenn. The Story of the Pony Express Hartcup, Guy. Achievement of the airship Hayward, Charles. Dirigible balloons: an instruction paper Settle, Raymond. Saddles and spurs: the Pony Express saga
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