Abstract
If the appearance of an annual bibliography of publications can be said to mark the moment a scholarly discipline is officially recognized," wrote Richard D. Altick, then the origins of "the scholarly study of Victorian literature and life" may be traced to "the first issue of the Victorian Bibliography" (309). When that work appeared, in 1933, Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians had been published only fifteen years earlier, and most Victorian scholars were Victorians by birth. This essay traces the process by which a slender list of publications on English literature of the Victorian era, hastily assembled seventy years ago, has evolved into the indispensable index to the current scholarship in our period, whose history mirrors the progress of Victorian studies.
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