• Parliamentary Papers, Bill for the better prevention and punishment of aggravated assaults upon women and children (1853)
• Popular ballads (from the Bodleian Collection of Broadside Ballads)
• Frances Power Cobbe, 'Wife-Torture in England', Contemporary Review, April (1878)
• Queen v Jackson (1891)
• Cases from the Old Bailey Online
• Gender from the Newspapers (see also Nineteenth Century British Newspapers)