From a thread on addiction on the listserv group Victoria

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Date:          Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:29:50 -0400
Reply-to:      VICTORIA 19th-Century British Culture & Society
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From:          Herbert Tucker <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:       Re: addiction
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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Kirsten MacLeod wrote:

> A few possible sources:
> 1. Virginia Berridge zand Griffith Edwards.  _Opium and the People: Opiate
> Use in Nineteenth-Century England_
> 2. Annette Federico's "'I Must Have Drink': Addiction, Angst, and Victorian
> Realism" in Dionysos 2 (1990): 11-25.
> 3. Brian Harrison. _Drink and the Victorians_
> 4. Lilian Shiman. _Crusade Against Drink in Victorian England_
> 5. BArry Milligan. "'The Plague Spreading and Attacking our Vitals': Opium
> Smoking and the Oriental Infection of the British Domestic Scene" Victorian
> Literature and Culture 20 (1992): 161-77._
> 6. Terry M. Parsinnen. _Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: NArcotic Drugs in
> British Society 1820-1930

Just a supplement: Milligan went on to publish a book on the subject,
*Pleasures and Pains* (Virginia); and especially for literary-interpretive
purposes Alethea Hayter's early book remains helpful: *Opium and. . .* (I
forget the rest).

Herbert Tucker
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