The following are selected works on the life of William Bell Scott:

Angeli, Helen Rossetti.  Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Friends and Enemies.  London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

Batchelor, John.  Lady Trevelyan and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.  London: Chatto and Windus, 2006.  Link to publisher’s page here.

_________.  “William Bell Scott (1811-1890).”  In Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004).  Link here.

Clayton-Stamm, M. D. E.  “William Bell Scott: Observer of the Industrial Revolution.”  Apollo, vol. 89 (1969), pp. 386-90.

Doughty, Oswald.  A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti.  2nd ed.  London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1960.

Fredeman, William E., ed.  The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.  10 vols.  Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002-2015.  Link to publisher’s page here.

__________.  “The Letters of Pictor Ignotus: William Bell Scott’s Correspondence with Alice Boyd, 1859-1884.”  2 pts.  Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, vol. 58 (1975), pp. 66-111; vol. 58 (1976), pp. 306-52.  Links here and here.

__________.  “William Bell Scott (1811-1890).”  In Victorian Poets Before 1850 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 32), ed. William E. Fredeman and Ira B. Nadel (Detroit: Gale, 1984), pp. 235-48.

Gaunt, William.  The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy.  London: Jonathan Cape, 1942; rev. ed., London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.

Marsh, Jan.  Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography.  London: Jonathan Cape, 1994.  Published as Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life.  New York: Viking, 1995.

__________.  Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet.  London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999.

Packer, Lona Mosk.  Christina Rossetti.  Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press, 1963.

Peattie, Roger W., ed.  Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti.  University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1990.  Link to publisher’s page here.

Scott, William Bell.  Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott, H.R.S.A., LL.D., and Notices of his Artistic and Poetic Circle of Friends, 1830 to 1882, ed. William Minto.  2 vols.  London: Osgood, McIlvaine; New York: Harper & Bros., 1892.  Link to Google Books here and here.

Thirlwell, Angela.  William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, 2003.  Link to publisher’s page here.

Trevelyan, Raleigh.  A Pre-Raphaelite Circle.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1978.

Walker, Vera.  The Life and Work of William Bell Scott, 1811-1890.  Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Durham, 1951.  Link here.

Wilkes, Lyall.  “William Bell Scott.”  In Tyneside Portraits: Studies in Art and Life (Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1971), pp. 135-52.