Sooner than expected, the new work of Tim Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players: Ten Biographies, was published by McFarland.

All relevant information on the book may be found on the publisher's site at www.mcfarlandpub.com/... as well as (more detailed) on the website of the author at www.chessmail.com/timsite/....

Review by John D. Warth at ChessCafe: An Eminent Historian (PDF)