The Messel Family, Collections, Houses and Gardens

Armstrong-Jones, Antony, Earl of Snowdon, A Personal View, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, in Association with Conde Nast, 1979.

de la Haye, Amy, Taylor, Lou and Thompson, Eleanor, A Family of Fashion, The Messels: Six Generations of Dress, Philip Wilson and Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, London, 2005.

Castle, Charles, Oliver Messel: A Biography, Thames & Hudson, London, 1986.

Deery, Oisin, A Compact History of Birr, Tama Books, Dublin, 2001.

Nicholson, Shirley, Nymans: The Story of a Sussex garden, Sutton in association with the National Trust, Gloucestershire, 1992, 2001.

Nicholson, Shirley, A Victorian Household, Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 1994.

O'Byrne, Robert, 'Couture for a Countess: Lady Rosse's Wardrobe', Irish Arts Review Yearbook, 1996, volume 12. pp157-163.

Pinkham, Roger (ed.), Oliver Messel, Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition catalogue, London, 1983.

Taylor Lou, 'The Wardrobe of Mrs Leonard Messel', The Englishness of English Dress, Berg, Oxford, 2002.

Fashion/Dress

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Norman Hartnell 1901 - 1979, The Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton, 1985.

Coleman, Elizabeth Anne, The Genius of Charles James, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1982.

de la Haye, Amy (ed.), The Cutting Edge: Fifty Years of British Fashion 1947-1997, V&A Publications, London, 1997.

De la Haye, Amy, Gilded Brocade Gowns and Impeccable Tailored Tweeds: Victor Stiebel (1907-76) a Quintessentially English Designer, The Englishness of English Dress, Berg, Oxford, 2002.

Duff Gordon, Lady, Discretions & Indiscretions, Jarolds, London, 1932.

Hartnell, Norman, Silver and Gold, Evans Brothers, London, 1955.

McCrum, Elizabeth, Fabric and Form: Irish Fashion since 1950, Sutton Publishing with Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1997.

Vassiliev, Alexandre, Beauty in Exile, Harry N Abrams, New York, 1998.

Museology

Belk, Russell, W., Collecting in a Consumer Society, Routledge, London, 1995.

Elsner, John and Cardinal, Roger (eds.), The Cultures of Collecting, Melbourne University Press, Australia, 1994.

Felshin, Nina, Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York 1994.

Kwint, Marius, Breward, Christopher, Aynsley, Jeremy (eds.) Material Memories: Design and Evocation, Berg, Oxford, 1999.

Pearce, Susan M., Interpreting Objects and Collections, Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1992.

Taylor, Lou, The Study of Dress History, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002.

Taylor, Lou, Establishing Dress History, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2004.