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Outstanding Websites
The Browning Letters
According to the site, "this is an unparalleled collection of correspondence written and received by the Victorian poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Featuring materials from the collection of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University and the holdings of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the letters in this collection are browseable and searchable by date, author, and first line of text." Transcriptions and images of each letter are included in the collection.
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page
The site is "dedicated to bringing the genius of Dickens to a new generation of readers." Users can access fast facts about Dickens, his family, and friends; information about his works and characters; a timeline; a bibliography, and more!
Rossetti Archive
For researchers of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "the Archive provides students and scholars with access to all of DGR's pictorial and textual works and to a large contextual corpus of materials" (from University of Virginia and the National Endowment for the Humanities).
The Shelley-Godwin Archive
According to the site, "the Shelley-Godwin Archive will provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers."
Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians
Discovering Literature is a free educational resource that provides unprecedented access to the Library’s literary and historical collections. Aimed at A level students, undergraduates and the general public, the site uses manuscript and printed sources to shed light on the historical, political and cultural contexts in which key literary works were written. Users can explore high-resolution digitised images; articles written by scholars, poets, novelists and journalists; short documentary films; and teachers' notes.
Romantic Circles
"Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture." Users can access e-books, chronologies, indexes, bibliographies, teaching materials, and more (from University of Maryland, Loyola University, and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities).
Victorian Web
Includes links to articles about the literature, culture and history in the 'age of Victoria'.
University of Virginia's E-Book Library (VIRGO)
1,800 publicly-available e-books including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents, and much more. Each text on this list can be accessed in HTML (web version) for online viewing, and can be downloaded as both a MS Reader E-book for the Microsoft Reader and a Palm-readable text for the Palm Reader. The catalog is browsable by subject and title.
