Literature Research

Here you will find a perspective on the 19th century like no other, through the words of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Browse over 10,000 of their collected letters by date, by recipient, by subject, and by volume.

The Dickens Project of the University of California is a Scholarly Consortium devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens.
Includes resources for teachers.

Includes texts, concordance, and links to other Chaucer Web sites.

Maintained by the English faculty at the University of Cambridge, this site is devoted to the study of Spenser. Full-text access to Spenser's works.

The MIT Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.

Virginia Woolf Resource Materials: links to E-texts, E-journals, and other resource material related to Woolf on the Web.

Includes a Shakespeare in performance database, containing a wealth of performance materials from films and stage productions, including press clippings, scripts, and production notes.

William Shakespeare's works printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642. Includes background on Shakespeare's life, works, theatre and the printing of his plays.

A digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays

Links, ebooks, images, places, societies. Maintained by Smith College.

Audio interviews with British novelists. BBC site also includes interviews with statesmen, philosophers, scientists, and others.

Full text of Middle English texts that occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon.

Discover 1,200 Romantic and Victorian literary treasures, new insights by 60 experts, 25 documentary films, 30 inspirational teachers’ notes and more.

A good place to start when looking for information on the Tudor period. Extensive image gallery. Includes maps, genealogical trees, architecture, law and government. and food and drink.

Transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century.

Collection of research dedicated to investigate and describe the emergence of literary modernism from 1914-1926.

This electronic edition reassembles all of the Tapestry in a continuous scrolling format, and presents annotations of scholarship precisely keyed to relevant sections of the textile. At the heart of the edition’s presentational mode lies a "seamless" reproduction of the Tapestry, which displays approximately seven feet of the work on screen at one time. Users may click on the forward or backward arrows to scroll the Tapestry in the desired direction, and may magnify any given section of the textile up to the level of the actual weave.

View digitized copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections.