This 19th century John Murray Publishing archive includes correspondence, financial papers, book drafts, and advertisements. It covers biographies of key figures, commissioned essays, and an exhibition of the life cycle of the book. Key authors include: Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Eastlake and Isabella Bird, William Gladstone, Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli, Austen Henry Layard and Charles Lyell. By Adam Matthew Digital.
Periodicals Archive Online is a leading humanities and social sciences indexing service that provides access to bibliographic records of articles from more than 4,000 journals published from 1770 to 2005. It gives the full text of articles from over 700 journals indexed.
Find literary criticism, reviews, and interviews with poets and short fiction writers, both historical and contemporary. Includes analyses of individual works, poetry showcases on contemporary American poets, and selected stories and poems in full text.
tool to help users find short stories from among more than 150,000 published in the U.S., England, and Canada dating from the 1830s to the 1980s. The index provides access by author, title, and publication, as well as topics, themes, locales, genre, and people (individuals, ethnicities, or professions).
This publication for teachers began with a focus on advocacy of educational reforms. It covered many educational themes including the history of public policy, developmental psychology, social history, women's studies, public health, literature and the arts.
The Early New Zealand Books Project has been developed by staff at The University of Auckland Library. It provides keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century.
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The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable ebooks and texts. There is also a collection of 1.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
This points to all ebook collections that the State Library provides access to including content from Gale ebooks, indyreads, ProQuest Ebook Central, and Taylor & Francis ebooks.
This catalogue combines the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue with content from Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1473-1640 and Wing's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700, as well as newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801. Its scope extends from the earliest printing in England (ca. 1473) through to the end of December, 1800. The ESTC can be used to find references to the Eighteenth Century and Early English Books online collections.
The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue is the international database of 15th-century European printing created by the British Library. The database records nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501, but not material printed entirely from woodblocks or engraved plates.
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This site contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. (No longer being added to.)
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The Jane Austens Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together over one thousand pages of fiction written in Jane Austens own hand. Through digital reunification, it is now possible to access, read, and compare high quality images of original manuscripts whose material forms are scattered around the world in libraries and private collections.
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Search millions of book records, and search across the full text of 1 million scanned books. Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library.
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A practical online tutorial to assist in reading handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800. Provided by the National Archives of the UK.
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An online repository of works printed in English between the 1477 and 1799. Although produced with care and attention, the texts are not represented by the publisher as scholarly editions.
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Full text literature study guides for a range of classic novels and most of Shakespeare's plays. Includes chapter plot summaries and criticism.
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