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British Literary Manuscripts This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1100-1900
Provides access to facsimile images of letters, poems, plays, novels, and other literary works of British authors over seven centuries.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1681-1939
Provides access to hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Formats include magisterial quarterlies, scholarly and professional organs, coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Literary Manuscripts from the Berg Collection This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 19th century
Provides access to Victorian manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. This collection includes digitized works of the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Alfred Tennyson and more. Contents include unpublished poems, working notebooks, and drawings.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Access to full text resources covering a variety of topics from the 19th century, including British politics and society, diplomatic and cultural exchange between Asia and the West, British theatre and music, and European literature from the Corvey Collection. Content is drawn from the world's preeminent libraries and archives and includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and ephemera.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, including working notebooks, verse manuscripts, and the correspondence of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and more. Pieces from J. M. W. Turner and other artists of the period illustrate the landscape that inspired the Romantic movement.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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JSTOR Understanding Series This link opens in a new window
Research tool connecting primary texts with journal articles and book chapters on the JSTOR platform. It includes key works of British literature, the King James Bible, and all Shakespeare plays and sonnets.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
On the Open Web
A sampling of digital resources and major digital collections available to all.
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Baldwin Library of Historical Children's LiteratureContains approximately 6,000 books and periodicals for children published in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s onward. From the collection of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, University of Florida.
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Folger Digital TextsFree, high-quality digital texts of Shakespeare's plays taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions. Source code also available for free download for those interested in creating projects, etc.
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Free Audio Books1,000 free audio books of literature from Aesop to Vonnegut, curated by OpenCulture.com.
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Mark Twain Project OnlineOffers access to a variety of Mark Twain's writings, including texts, exhaustive notes, recently discovered letters, and documents relating to the author.
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Modernist Journals ProjectSeveral fully-digitized cultural, literary, and political magazines published in the first two decades of the 20th century. A few examples include The English Review, The Little Review, Scribner's, and Poetry.
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NINES (Networked Infrastructure for 19th Century Electronic Scholarship)A scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the 19th century and the digital research environment of the 21st. Aggregates and provides federated searching of peer-reviewed online journals and digital exhibits relevant to the study of Victorian-era literature, history, and culture.
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Victorian Women Writers ProjectPrimarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres: poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more.
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Walt Whitman ArchiveMakes available resources by and about Walt Whitman including images, manuscripts, notebooks, essays, letters, and journalistic articles.
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World of DanteA multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings.