Bibliography
Though not comprehensive, the list of resources below offers a range of scholarship about literary annuals that I have found particularly useful in my own research.
Online Resources
Harris, Katherine D. "Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann's 19th-Century Literary Annual." Poetess Archive. Gen. Ed. Laura Mandell. <http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/Index.htm>
Hoagwood, Terence, Kathryn Ledbetter, and Martin M. Jacobsen, eds. “L.E.L.’s ‘Verses’ and The Keepsake for 1829 Edited by Frederic Mansel Reynolds: A Hypertext Edition.” Romantic Circles <http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/lel/index.html>.
Hootman, Harry Edward. “An Index of British Literary Annuals and Giftbooks.” <http://www.britannuals.com>.
---. “British Literary Annuals and Giftbooks.” [companion site for www.britannuals.com] <http://www.geocities.com/britannualsinfo/>.
Printed Sources
Ball, Douglas. Victorian Publishers’ Bindings. Williamsburg: Book Press, 1985.
Booth, Bradford Allen. Introduction. A Cabinet of Gems: Short Stories from the English Annuals. Berkeley: U of California P, 1938. 1-18.
Chick, Arthur. Towards Today’s Book: Progress in 19th Century Britain. London: Farrand, 1997.
Colclough, Stephen. “Designated in Print as ‘Mr. John Clare’: The Annuals and the Field of Reading, 1827-1835.” John Clare Society Journal 24 (2005): 53-68.
Feldman, Paula R. Introduction. The Keepsake for 1829. Peterborough: Broadview, 2006. 7-25.
---. “Women, Literary Annuals, and the Evidence of Inscription.” Keats-Shelley Journal 55 (2006): 54-62.
Hawes, Donald. “Thackeray and the Annuals.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 7.1 (1976): 3-31.
Harris, Katherine D. “Feminizing the Textual Body: Female Readers Consuming the Literary Annual.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 99.4 (2005): 225-40.
Hawkins, Ann R. “Marketing Gender and Nationalism: Blessington’s Gems of Beauty/L’Ècrin and the Mid-Century Book Trade.” Women’s Writing 12.2 (2005): 225-40.
Hootman, Harry Edward. “British Literary Annuals and Giftbooks, 1823-1861.” Diss. U of South Carolina, 2004.
Jamieson, Eleanor. "The Binding Styles of the Gift Books and Annuals." Literary Annuals and Gift Books: A Bibliography 1823-1903. Frederick W. Faxon. 1912. Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1973.
Lawford, Cynthia. “Bijoux Beyond Possession: The Prima Donnas of L.E.L.’s Album Poems.” Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900. Ed. Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain. London: Macmillan, 1999.
Ledbetter, Kathryn. “‘beGemmed and beAmuletted’: Tennyson and Those ‘vapid’ Gift Books.” Victorian Poetry 34.2 (1996): 235-45.
---. “Lucrative Requests: British Authors and Gift Book Editors.” The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 88.2 (June 1994) 207-16.
---. “‘White Vellum and Gilt Edges’: Imaging The Keepsake.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 30.1 (Spring 1997): 35-49.
Lodge, Sara. “Romantic Reliquaries: Memory and Irony in The Literary Annuals.” Romanticism 10.1 (2004): 23-40.
Mandell, Laura. "Hemans and the Gift-Book Aesthetic," Cardiff Corvey 6 (June 2001). <http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/journals/romtext/articles/cc06_n01.pdf>
Paley, Morton D. “Coleridge and the Annuals.” The Huntington Library Quarterly 57 (Winter 1994): 1-24.
Pulham, Patricia. “‘Jewels—delights—perfect loves’: Victorian Women Poets and the Annuals.” Victorian Women Poets. Ed. Alison Chapman. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003. 9-31.
Manning, Peter J. "Wordsworth in The Keepsake, 1829." Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices. Ed. John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. 44-73.
Rappoport, Jill. “Buyer Beware: The Gift Poetics of Letitia Elizabeth Landon.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 58.4 (2004): 441-73.
Renier, Anne. Friendship’s Offering: An Essay on the Annuals and Gift Books of the 19th Century. London: Private Libraries Association, 1964.
Sypher, F.J. Introduction. Poems from Annuals by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Ed. F.J. Sypher. An Arbor: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 2006. xiii-xxviii.
Twyman, Micahel. Printing 1770-1970: An Illustrated History of its Development and Uses in England. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970.