Literature

General

• The Victorian Age, Part One - complete text of these volumes from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, edited by A.W. Ward and A.R. Waller, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons; Cambridge, England: University Press, 1907-21 (Bartleby.com, 2000)
• The Victorian Age, Part Two - see above (Bartleby.com, 2000)
• Studies of Victorian Literature - overviews, literary criticism, images, links (John P. Farrell, PhD, University of Texas at Austin)
• Literature of the Victorian Period - lists of major works, bibliographies, and biographical links (Roger Blackwell Bailey, PhD)
• Internet Library of Early Journals - digital library of journals published in the 18th and 18th centuries (Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and Oxford)
• Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian Literature - page of links to general resources, authors, syllabi, criticism, journals, listservs, and conferences (Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Crystal Palace Online Publications - Collection of papers from a 2001 conference in which 19th Century literature is used to better understand various aspects of Victorian culture and life.
• Victorian Station - brief biographies and summaries of literary careers of significant 19th century poets and authors 
• Classic Reviews from the Atlantic Monthly - reviews of 19th century literary classics published in Atlantic Monthly at the time of the works' original release.  Includes reviews of Poe, Eliot, Hawthorne, Dickens, Hugo, Twain, Alcott, and Thackeray that would have been read by these authors and their contemporaries.
• Aspects of the Victorian Book - an online exhibition highlighting the art of book production in the 19th Century (British Library)
• Subscribe to a Serialized Victorian Novel - free service that will email you weekly installments of a serialized Victorian Novel of your choice (Mousehold Words)
  

Author Lists and Bibliographies

• Nineteenth-Century Literature - hyperlinked list by author to pages full of links to related literary criticism and works online (LiteraryHistory.com)
• Literature in Great Britain, the Victorians and their 18th Century Precursors - hyperlinked chronology (Victorian Web)
• Authors listed chronologically - scroll down this page to the sections on Revolution & Romanticism, Realism- Naturalism-Symbolism, and the Age of Uncertainty.  The list is hyperlinked to brief biographical notes, works, and selected electronic texts (University of Adelaide, Australia)
  
• Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 - searchable bibliography of 19th Century works as listed in Lisle Wright's American Fiction, 1851-1875 (Indiana University Digital Library Program)
• Victorian Fiction Online - a database of 35,000 entries describing authors, chronologies, manuscripts, primary and secondary sources on every field of Victorian fiction published from 1830-2009. (Norm Friesen and Brahma Chaudhuri)
  
• A Regency Bibliography - includes both primary and secondary materials (compiled by Jolie Velazquez)
  

By Genre

• The Romantic Revival - complete text of this volume from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, edited by A.W. Ward and A.R. Waller, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons; Cambridge, England: University Press, 1907-21 (Bartleby.com, 2000)
  
• Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 - formerly published as "Cardiff Corvy: Reading the Romantic Text", this peer reviewed journal of Romantic literature now has a new name and site with access to all back issues from August 1997-Summer 2008 (Cardiff University)
• Romantic Poets 1780-1830 - a hyperlinked timeline (University of Toronto Library)
• Victorian Poets 1833-1903 - a hyperlinked timeline (University of Toronto Library)
• The Painterly Image in Poetry - affect of 19th century aesthetic theory and fine arts on poetic imagery (Norton Anthology of English Literature)
• Gaslight Discussion Group - reviews of tales published between 1800-1919 of Mystery, Adventure, and The Weird (Mount Royal College, last updated 2004)
  

By Country of Origin

• Canadian Pre-1900 Literature - related sites and hyperlinked author list (The Internet Public Library)
• American Literature 1783-1865 - related sites and hyperlinked author list (The Internet Public Library)
• American Literature 1865-1900 - related sites and hyperlinked author list (The Internet Public Library)
• American Verse Project - full text searchable archive American poetry volumes published prior to 1920 (University of Michigan/University of Michigan Press)
  
• The Chadwyck-Healey Database of African-American Poetry - more than 2,500 poems by 54 poets 1760-1900 (Indiana University)
• English Literature: The Victorian Age - overview and related sections on Industrialism, The Woman Question, The Painterly Image in Poetry, and Victorian Emperialism (Norton Anthology of English Literature)
  
• [British] Victorian Literature Overview (Victorian Web)
• [British] Victorian Authors Discussed in the Victorian Web - hyperlinked list of authors that leads to pages of related biographies, online works, literary criticism, and other links (Victorian Web)
• British Literature 19th Century - related sites and hyperlinked author list (The Internet Public Library)
• Victorian British Literary Resources - list of links to useful sites (Jack Lynch, Rutgers University Newark)
  
• Godey's Lady's Book Online Home Page - Godey's included short stories, poetry, and other popular literature for the edification of its readers
  
• Godey's Lady's Book
• German Literature 1750-1900 - related sites and hyperlinked author list (The Internet Public Library)
• Russian Literature 1700-1917- related sites and hyperlinked author list (The Internet Public Library)

By Author

• Jane Austen (1775-1817) - overview, underlying themes, and Austen links (Lilia Melani, PhD, Brooklyn College)
• Emily Brontë (1818-1848) - overview, underlying themes, and links (Lilia Melani, PhD, Brooklyn College)
• The Stephen Crane Society - links to sites and online works of American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - overview, underlying themes, and links (Lilia Melani, PhD, Brooklyn College)
• George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819-1880 - major works, related links, and available etexts (Victorian Web)
  
• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) - overview and underlying themes of Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Lilia Melani, PhD, Brooklyn College)
• Rossetti Archive - extensive resources and online texts regarding London writer and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) - (NINES)
• William Makepeace Thackaray (1811-1863) - overview, underlying themes, and links (Lilia Melani, PhD, Brooklyn College)

Women Writers
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