Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern (formerly at Brown). It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible.
The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, including texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.
By Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara. An excellent, comprehensive Web site for all periods of English and American literature, with links to specific author pages, listservs and newsgroups, teaching resources, syllabi, and conferences.
Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, and other media from the Library of Congress. Highlights include 19th century books and periodicals, Walt Whitman's poetry notebooks, Lewis Carroll's scrapbooks, the plays of Zora Neale Hurston, and items from the Federal Theatre Project Collection.
An exhaustive (or exhausting!) list of women writers, from classic to trashy. Searchable by author's name, century, country, or ethnicity. The information/links vary in quality.
A digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. Search, annotate, make public or private sets of annotations, create exhibits or character cue line lists, and download and print text and images.
Scholarly and historical editions of Shakespeare's works; prompt books and theatrical diaries; articles and reference materials on Shakespeare and related topics, 1600 to present
See high-quality images of 107 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the 1642 theatre closures; compare "good" and "bad" quartos.
Digitized manuscripts, newspapers, diaries, letters, photographs, and maps from the British Library collections as well as accompanying articles and videos. Explore by author (e.g., Keats) or theme.
A refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. Includes an archive of Romantic-era texts, peer-reviewed literary criticism, bibliographies, images, and other material.
The "authors section" of this site is maintained by George P. Landow from the National University of Singapore and Brown University. Excellent overview of an author in Victorian times, including political, religious, and social contexts.
Complete, searchable texts of women writing in English during the 19th century in a range of genres, including poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more. From Indiana University.
