Access to facsimile images of letters, poems, plays, novels, and other literary works of British authors over seven centuries.

Periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th, including several on literature and culture.

Manuscripts, including unpublished poems, working notebooks, correspondence, and drawings, by a broad range of authors, including the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Alfred Tennyson.

The European Literature, 1970-1840: the Corvey Collection module contains 3,250 works by more than 1,250 different authors from the later 18th and early 19th centuries, plus another 6,000 works in French or German.

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.

Contains 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.

Free, 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.

700 free audio books of literature from Aesop to Vonnegut, curated by OpenCulture.com.

The first substantial collection of creative writings in Jane Austen's own hand. Click on Text to see both the facsimile and an easy-to-read transcription.

Offers access to a variety of Mark Twain's writings, including texts, exhaustive notes, recently discovered letters, and documents relating to the author.

Several 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.

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.

Features materials by and about the 19th century Victorian painter, designer, writer and translator, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Among the resources on this website are books, manuscripts, correspondence, pictures, and poems.

287 recordings of vernacular English recorded across rural England between 1950-1961.

A beta project from JSTOR that links scholarly articles to a growing collection of literary and other important written works, including all of Shakespeare's canonical plays

Primarily 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.

Makes available resources by and about Walt Whitman including images, manuscripts, notebooks, essays, letters, and journalistic articles.

A multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings.