Explore more about the fire and the world in which it occurred by browsing through the following sources:

 

First-hand Accounts of the Fire

Calamity at Richmond, Philadelphia, Published and sold by John F. Watson, 1812.

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Alexander, Ann Tuke. Remarks on the Theatre, and on the Late Fire at Richmond, in Virginia. York, England: T. Wilson & Son, 1812.

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Lloyd, Rees. The Richmond Alarm: a Plain and Familiar Discourse in the Form of a Dialogue Between a Father and His Son: in Three Parts: Written at the Request of a Number of Pious Persons by an Independent Minister. Philadelphia: J.Bioren, Printer, 1814.

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A Serious Inquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Stage and a Letter

respecting Play Actors by John Witherspoon also, a Sermon on the burning of the Theatre at Richmond, &c., by Samuel Miller D.D. pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New-York together with an introductory address, by Several Ministers in New-York, &c. Printed by D. and G. Bruce. New York: Whiting and Watson, 1812.

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Life in 19th c. Virginia

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Barrett Philip, Gilbert Hunt, The City Blacksmith. Richmond: James

Woodhouse & Co., 1859.

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Mordecai, Samuel. Richmond in By-Gone Days. Republished from the Second Edition of 1860. Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1946.

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Dunn, Susan. Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison & the Decline of

Virginia. New York: Basic Books, 2007.

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Norfleet, Fillmore. Saint-Memin in Virginia: Portraits and Biographies.

Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1942.

 

Monumental Church and Virginia Episcopalianism

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Bryan, John Morrill. America’s First Architect: Robert Mills. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.

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Fisher, George D. History and Reminiscences of the Monumental Church,

Richmond, Virginia, from 1814 to 1878. Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1880.

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Holmes, David. A Brief History of the Episcopal Church. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1993.

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Winner, Lauren F. A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia. Yale University Press, 2010.

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19th century American Theater

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Click, Patricia C. The Spirit of the Times: Amusements in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond.Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia, 1989.

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Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn. Celebrate Richmond Theater. Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 2002.

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Johnson, Claudia Durst. Church and Stage: The Theatre as Target of Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth Century America. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2008.

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Gerhard, William Paul. Theatre Fires and Panics: Their Causes and Prevention. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1896.

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Dunlap, William, A History of the American Theater. Volume I and II.

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1833.

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Sherman, Susanne K. Comedies Useful: Southern Theatre History 1775-1812. Lucy B. Pilkinton, ed. Williamsburg, Virginia: Celest Press, 1998.