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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 19th century
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an index with more than 20 million records for books, periodicals, newspapers, government publications, reference material, and archival collections. This database includes The Wellesley Index for Victorian Periodicals, The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Periodicals Index Online, and American Periodicals Series.
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 Contents include unpublished poems, working notebooks, and drawings.
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London Low Life This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 18th-20th centuries
A digital collection of full-text and color images of rare books, ephemera, maps, posters, slag dictionaries, children's chapbooks, street cries, playbills, cartoons, and other materials relating to the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century Victorian London. This database also includes a chronology, interactive map, essays, visual galleries, and exhibitions. Topics covered include the underworld, religion, women and gender, politics, popular music, urban topography, slang, working-class culture, prostitution, the Temperance Movement, and police and criminality.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
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Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1545-1900
Nearly 26,000 pamphlets bringing together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain. Collections include Cowen Tracts (1603-1898), Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection (1800-1900), Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection (1545-1900), Hume Tracts (1769-1890), Knowsley Pamphlet Collection (1792-1868), Selections - University of Manchester British Political Pamphlets Collection (1799-1900), Selections - London School of Economics and Political Science (1800-1899), Selections - University of Bristol (1800-1899), and Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection (1761-1900).
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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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Nineteenth Century U.K. Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1800-1900
Provides access to periodicals published in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era.
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The Wild boys of London: or, The children of night. Vol. 2. [London]: [s. n.], [1866].
Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
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British Fiction 1800-1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and ReceptionBiibliographical records of 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors, along with a large number of contemporary materials (including anecdotal records, circulating-library catalogues, newspaper advertisements, reviews, and subscription lists).
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of BaltimoreAll of Poe's writings, plus critical and biographical work.
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Victoria Research WebA collection of diverse links to aid researchers in all aspects of the 19th century British life and literature.