Lillian Russell : a biography of "America's Beauty" / by Fields, Armond, 1930-

Lillian Russell : the era of plush / by Morell, Parker, 1906-1943

Duet in diamonds; the flamboyant saga of Lillian Russell and Diamond Jim Brady in America's gilded age, by O'Connor, Richard, 1915-1975

Historicizing fat in Anglo-American culture /

Table of Contents: “…American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America /…”

American appetites : a documentary reader /

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Entertaining women : actresses, dancers, and singers in the Old West / by Enss, Chris, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Catherine Norton Sinclair: the talented actress -- Adah Menken: the frenzy of Frisco -- Leslie Carter: the passionate player -- Catherine Hayes: the Irish prima donna -- Sarah Kirby Stark: the pioneer manager -- Charlotte Cushman: the actress in trousers -- Sarah Bernhardt: the divine Sarah -- Lillian Russell: the American beauty -- Helena Modjeska: the Polish phenomenon -- Matilda Heron: the star of the American theater -- Mary Anderson: the self-made star -- Laura Keene: the president's actress -- Caroline Chapman: the quick-change artists -- Jeanne Eagels: the screen siren.…”
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Icons of American popular culture : from P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez / by Cottrell, Robert C., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Three Stars of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley -- Lillian Russell and Irving Berlin -- Four The Cinematic Artist and the Literary Lion D.W. …”
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Vivid and repulsive as the truth : the early works of Djuna Barnes / by Barnes, Djuna

Historicizing fat in Anglo-American culture /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- "As Horace fat" in a thin land : Ben Jonson's experience and strategy / Anne Brumley -- American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America / Cookie Woolner -- Greedy bastards : fat kids, class war, and the ideology of classlessness / Alex Evans -- Resisting fatphobia in the critical tradition of Venus and Adonis / Elena Levy-Navarro -- "It's not over till the fat lady sings" : the weight of the opera diva / Serena Guarracino -- Fat's no four-letter word : fat feminism and identity politics in the 1970s and 1980s / Greta Rensenbrink.…”
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What would Mrs. Astor do? : the essential guide to the manners and mores of the Gilded Age / by Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Astor -- Inexcusable -- Deadly triangle : Nesbit, White, Thaw -- On the scene : boldface names in New York -- Diamond Jim Brady (1856-1917) -- Nellie Bly (1864-1922) -- Jack London (1876-1916) -- Lillian Russell (1860-1922) -- Buffalo Bill (1846-1917) -- Front-page girls -- Muckrakers -- Funerals.…”

What would Mrs. Astor do? : the essential guide to the manners and mores of the Gilded Age / by Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Astor -- Inexcusable -- Deadly triangle : Nesbit, White, Thaw -- On the scene : boldface names in New York -- Diamond Jim Brady (1856-1917) -- Nellie Bly (1864-1922) -- Jack London (1876-1916) -- Lillian Russell (1860-1922) -- Buffalo Bill (1846-1917) -- Front-page girls -- Muckrakers -- Funerals.…”
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