Books

• Russell, P. (2010). Savage or Civilised Manners in Colonial Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press.
• Russell, P. (1994). A Wish of Distinction: Colonial Gentility and Femininity. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Edited Books

• Russell, P., Worden, N. (2016). Honourable Intentions? Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c. 1750 to 1850. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Deacon, D., Russell, P., Woollacott, A. (2010). Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700-present. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Deacon, D., Russell, P., Woollacott, A. (2008). Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World. Canberra: ANU E Press.
• Russell, P. (2005). Australia's History: Themes and Debates. Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press.
• Russell, P. (2002). This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney 1839. Australia: Antipodes Books and Beyond.

Book Chapters

• Russell, P. (2019). The sounds of incivility: Insults and abuse on early Sydney. In Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan, David Ellison, Karen Crawley (Eds.), Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850, (pp. 226-242). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2018). TLO 8: Identify and Reflect Critically on the Knowledge and Skills Developed in the Study of History. In Jennifer Clark, Adele Nye (Eds.), Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards, (pp. 313-323). Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2017). Gender and Urban Experience in Nineteenth-Century Australasian Towns. In Deborah Simonton (Eds.), The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience, (pp. 453-463). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2017). Love in a Colonial Climate. In Hsu-Ming Teo (Eds.), The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia, (pp. 39-64). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
• Russell, P. (2016). Family Histories: Memoirs, Archives and Genealogies. In P. Ashton, A. Clark and R. Crawford (Eds.), Once Upon a Time: Australian Writers on Using the Past, (pp. 164-177). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
• Drown, J., Russell, P. (2016). Honour among convict and Aboriginal men in 1820s New South Wales. In Penny Russell and Nigel Worden (Eds.), Honourable Intentions? Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c. 1750 to 1850, (pp. 171-185). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2016). Honour, morality and sexuality in nineteenth-century Sydney. In Penny Russell and Nigel Worden (Eds.), Honourable Intentions? Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c. 1750 to 1850, (pp. 202-217). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2016). Honour, morality and sexuality in nineteenth-century Sydney. In Penny Russell and Nigel Worden (Eds.), Honourable Intentions? Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c. 1750 to 1850, (pp. 202-217). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Russell, P., Worden, N. (2016). Introduction: Honourable intentions? In Penny Russell and Nigel Worden (Eds.), Honourable Intentions? Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c. 1750 to 1850, (pp. 1-16). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2016). Throwing down the gauntlet: Voice, power and sexual violence in penal New South Wales. In Joy Damousi, Paula Hamilton (Eds.), A Cultural History of Sound and Memory, (pp. 93-108). New York and London: Routledge. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2014). Death on a river: Honour and violence in an Australian penal colony, 1826-1827. In Carolyn Strange, Robert Cribb, Christopher E. Forth (Eds.), Honour, Violence and Emotions in History, (pp. 107-126). London: Bloomsbury. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2014). Death on a river: Honour and violence in an Australian penal colony, 1826–1827. In Carolyn Strange, Robert Cribb, Christopher E. Forth (Eds.), Honour, Violence and Emotions in History, (pp. 107-126). London: Bloomsbury.
• Russell, P. (2013). Gender and colonial society. In Alison Bashford, Stuart Macintyre (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Australia: Volume 1: Indigenous and Colonial Australia, (pp. 462-486). New York: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2013). Unremitting Exertions: Sentiment and Responsibility in Jane Franklin's Correspondence (1854). In Frederic Regard (Eds.), Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Northwest Passage, (pp. 115-135). London: Pickering and Chatto. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2010). 'Citizens of the World?': Jane Franklin's Transnational Fantasies. In Desley Deacon, Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott (Eds.), Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700-present, (pp. 195-208). Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Deacon, D., Russell, P., Woollacott, A. (2010). Introduction. In Desley Deacon, Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott (Eds.), Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700-present, (pp. 1-11). Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lake, M., Russell, P. (2010). Miss Australia. In Melissa Harper, Richard White (Eds.), Symbols of Australia, (pp. 91-97). Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press.
• Deacon, D., Russell, P., Woollacott, A. (2008). Introduction. In Desley Deacon, Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott (Eds.), Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, (pp. xiii-xxi). Canberra: ANU E Press.
• Russell, P. (2005). Private Writings. In Spongberg, Mary; Curthoys, Ann and Caine, Barbara (Eds.), Companion to Women's Historical Writing, (pp. 427-437). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Russell, P. (2005). Unsettling settler society. In Lyons, M and Russell, P (Eds.), Australia's History: Themes and Debates, (pp. 22-40). Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press.
• Russell, P. (2004). Almost Believing: The Ethics Of Historical Imagination. In Stuart Macintyre (Eds.), The historians Conscience: Australian historians on the ethics of history, (pp. 106-117). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
• Russell, P. (2003). Cultures of distinction. In Teo, H. M. and White, R. (Eds.), Cultural History in Australia, (pp. 158-171). Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press.
• Russell, P. (2002). 'Behold another Sheba Comes'. In Penny Russell (Eds.), This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney 1839, (pp. 1-23). Australia: Antipodes Books and Beyond.
• Russell, P. (2002). Introduction and annotations. In Penny Russell (Eds.), This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney 1839. Australia: Antipodes Books and Beyond.
• Russell, P. (2002). Melbourne 1-5 April 1839. In Penny Russell (Eds.), This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney 1839, (pp. 25-34). Australia: Antipodes Books and Beyond.
• Russell, P. (2002). The Brash Colonial: Class and Comportment in Nineteen-century Australia. In Royal Historical Society (Eds.), Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Sixth Series: volume 12, (pp. 431-453). Uk: Cambridge University Press.
• Russell, P. (2002). Voyage Home. In Penny Russell (Eds.), This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney 1839, (pp. 197-208). Australia: Antipodes Books and Beyond.

Journals

• Russell, P. (2014). Travelling steerage: class, commerce, religion and family in colonial Sydney. Journal of Australian Studies, 38(4), 383-395. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2012). 'A Silly Quarrel About a Sore Knee'? Defending Honour in a Professional Dispute, Sydney 1846. Health and History, 14(2), 46-73. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2012). Emma Darwin: A Victorian Life. Victorian Studies.
• Russell, P. (2012). Girl in a Red Dress: Inventions of Mathinna. Australian Historical Studies, 43(3), 341-362. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2011). An Edwardian Summer (Exhibition Review). reCollections, 6(1), 1-4.
• Nye, A., Hughes-Warrington, M., Roe, J., Russell, P., Deacon, D., Kiem, P. (2011). Exploring historical thinking and agency with undergraduate history students. Studies in Higher Education, 36(7), 763-780. [More Information]
• Nye, A., Hughes-Warrington, M., Roe, J., Russell, P., Peel, M., Deacon, D., Laugeson, A., Kiem, P. (2009). Historical thinking in higher education: Staff and student perceptions of the nature of historical thinking. History Australia, 6(3), 73.1-73.16.
• Russell, P. (2009). Life's Illusions: The "Art" of critical biography. Journal of Women's History, 21(4), 152-156.
• Russell, P. (2009). Unhomely Moments: Civilising domestic worlds in colonial Australia. The History of the Family, 14(4), 327-339. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2005). Wife Stories: Narrating Marriage and Self in the Life of Jane Franklin. Victorian Studies, 48(1), 35-57. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2004). A Woman Of The Future? Feminism And Conservatism In Colonial New South Wales. Women's History Review, 13(1), 69-90. [More Information]
• Russell, P. (2004). An Improper Education? Jane Griffin's Pursuit Of Self-Improvement And ''Truth'', 1811-12. History of Education, 33(3), 249-265.
• Russell, P. (2004). Empathy, Imagination And Feminist History. Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, 13, 1-11.
• Russell, P. (2004). Imagining Romance: Geneva 1816. Australian Feminist Studies, 19(43), 9-18.
• Russell, P. (2004). Ornaments Of Empire. History Australia, 1(2), 196-208.
• Russell, P. (2003). Antipodean Queen of Sheba. Meanjin, 62(4), 161-167.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

• Russell, P. (2002). On the Road. National Library of Australia News.

Reference Works

• Russell, P. (2006). Manners and Formality. In Thomson and Gale (Eds.), Scribner’s Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914. Charles Scribners & Sons Publishing.