Research & Writing Links
For Writing & Writers
For Generalists
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- EServer.org
- How Much is that Worth Today?: Comparing the purchasing power of money in the Great Britain from 1600 to any other year including the present. A recent study concludes that prices have increased between 70-90% since 1850. So, £1000 in 1851 would be worth about £70,000 today BUT £1000 today would be about £11-14 pounds in 1850.
- Literary Resources on the Net
- Luminarium: According to creator Anniina Jokinan, it is designed to be a "starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature." Norton Anthology, 6th edition, used as authoritative source and reference.
- Representative Poetry Online: Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes about 2,900 English poems by over 400 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s. Includes an extraordinarily useful glossary of poetic terms.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
For 18th & 19th Century Studies
- Breakfast in the Eighteenth Century
- British Poetry 1780-1910
- C18-L,Resources for 18th-century studies across the disciplines
- Current Value of Old Money: A frequent question is "how much would a specified amount of money at a certain period of time be worth today?" The sources listed are useful in attempting to answer this question.
- Dicken's Dictionary, 1879: A guidebook to Victorian London compiled by Charles Dickens (junior)
- Dictionary of Victorian London
- Eighteenth Century Studies: This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism.
- Female Detectives in UK Fiction, 1850-1900
- Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann's 19th C. Literary Annual
- Frankenstein's Dream: A Romantic Circles PRAXIS Volume edited by Jarrold Hogle
- Frankenstein Exhibit: An Exhibition of the National Library of Medicine—National Institutes of Health
- The Gothic Literature Page
- Internet Library of Early Journals: A digital library of three 18th century journals (Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society) and three 19th century journals (Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine).
- Lesley Hall's Web: "I created the initial version of these pages in late December 1998, to reflect my interests in the history of gender and sexuality, feminist science fiction and fantasy, and as a professional archivist and addicted acquirer of books. Since then I've been expanding and updating them to provide what I hope is a useful information resource for people who are interested in the same sorts of things. The site now includes the homepage for the 'Histsex' e-mail discussion list, the so far rather embryonic History of Sexuality Research Interests Register, a number of my own reviews and Recommended Reading
, unpublished papers, material on men and medicine, and a women's history walk round Bloomsbury, as well as possibly the only place on the entire Web where you can find instructions on how to make sheepgut condoms. Plus The Clitoris: historical myths and facts, and Literary abortion. And, British Women Writers, 1910s-1960s: the 'middlebrows'."
- Mary Shelley in Context, Example of a Summer 2004 Class Project
- My Hideous Progeny: The Mary Shelley Website
- The Nineteenth-Century English Novel, A Bibliographic Resource
- Percy Shelley Resource Center
- Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1640 - 1834
- Romantic Circles
- Romanticism on the Net
- Romantics Unbound
- The Rossetti Archive: The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Hypermedia Research Archive
- Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Database: A searchable electronic index to the science content of sixteen nineteenth-century general periodicals.
- Victorian Web Sites
- Victorian Women Writers Project
- Victoriana Library
- Lewis Walpole Library: A department of Yale University Library, it has significant holdings of eighteenth-century English books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, watercolors, and paintings. It is a leading non-circulating research library for English eighteenth-century studies and the prime source for the study of Horace Walpole.
- William Godwin Archive
For Theatre Studies
For Bibliomaniacs and Art Gluttons
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