English 3502: British Literature II

Dr. Carolyn Sigler


Click here for the Fall 2002 syllabus (continually updated)

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LINKS TO BRITISH LITERATURE RESOURCES ON THE WEB

 

WRITING AND DOCUMENTATION

LITERARY BACKGROUND AND CRITICISM

  • The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection:  This literary metasite contains over 1,000 annotated metasites and articles devoted to literary criticism, biographical, and other information about 123 authors from Dante Alighieri to Arthur Miller to William Butler Yeats. The links to criticism information can be to sites or articles (some of which have access restrictions). Visitors can browse the site by author, title, or literary period (for British and American literature). In addition, both a literary criticism guide and a pathfinder are provided for those who wish to further explore web and print resources on the topic (from The Internet Scout Report).
  • Biographical and critical resources about many of the authors in this class can be found at the Literature Resource Center, a site that allows you to search through hundreds of Gale reference volumes, including the Dictionary of Literary Biography series as well as many other biographical and critical sources.
  • The Online Student Companion to The Longman Anthology of British Literature 2/e (our textbook)
  • The Voice of the Shuttle literary resources
  • Key Literary Terms
  • A Glossary of Poetic terms


ROMANTICISM BACKGROUND

GENERAL NINETEENTH CENTURY BACKGROUND

  • Dictionary of Victorian London: Designed and maintained by Lee Jackson, an author and librarian, the Victorian Dictionary is a useful resource on Victorian London history during the 19th century. This site contains over 40 categories that range from architecture, to clothing and fashions, to dates and events, to entertainment and recreation, to words and expressions. The site also contains a bibliography containing most of the resources used for the site, as well as links to other related sites (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • What was Jane Eyre's £50 per year salary really worth? Economic History Resources' "How Much Is That Worth Today?" enables users to determine the purchasing power of British currency for any year from 1600 to the present.
  • Victoria Research Web: An offshoot of the VICTORIA discussion list and hosted by Indiana University, this site is designed to assist researchers, teachers, and students studying nineteenth century Britain. Users will find a number of helpful items such as a guide to Victorian holdings in selected archives, book reviews on-line, bibliographies, a guide to using the new British Library, tips on planning a research trip, sample syllabi, and a guide to major journals in the field. Additional resources include a list of related discussion groups and a search engine for the VICTORIA archives. VICTORIA equally welcomes the contributions of students of literature, social history, politics, gender studies, publishing, art, and intellectual history in "the long 19th century" (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • The Victorian Web: Literature, History and Culture in the Age of Victoria.
  • Changes During the Victorian Age: If you were born in the early nineteenth century, you were in for a big surprise: by 1900 the world you had grown up in was gone for good. This BBC-sponsored site by Bruce Robinson explores how the enthusiasm for invention and speed transformed the Victorians' world.
  • A commprehensive list of Victorian studies and author Web sites maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka.
  • Victorian British Literary Resources from the Voice of the Shuttle.
  • BBC Timelines: England and Scotland:  The BBC History 2000 project offers these multi-level timelines of the histories of England and Scotland from the Neolithic age to the present. As timelines go, these are unusually detailed and provide paragraph-length descriptions -- often accompanied by photos, artwork, or 3-D online models -- about such events and personages as the building of Hadrian's wall; Jane Grey, the nine-day queen; and Robert the Bruce, the famous Scottish warrior-king who secured his country's independence from England in 1328. Users can view the timelines separately or together, allowing for comparative consideration of the evolution of these two often warring, but still tightly knit, nations.
  • 1901: Living at the Time of the Census [Quicktime, MediaPlayer]: Assembled from the vast historical treasures of the UK Public Record Office (PRO) (last mentioned in the June 15, 2001 Scout Report), this virtual exhibition "uses words, pictures and documents to open a door onto life in 1901." Intended as an easily understood introduction to family and community historical research, the exhibition also works well in explaining the life and times of the people documented in the 1901 census. The essays are well written and accessible, with many illustrative images of historical documents (i.e., maps, photos, etc.). It is divided into 4 thematic sections--Cinema (silent film footage courtesy of the British Film Institute), People and Places of 1901, Living in 1901, and Events of 1901 (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • Penguin Classics Website -- contains short articles, biographies, synopses, and feature essays on many Victorian authors
  • Victorian Social History: An Overview (from The Victorian Web). Contains a treasure trove of pages devoted to such social issues as public health, labor, race, class, gender, education and economics.
  • Old Bailey Proceedings Online: Formally known as the Central Criminal Court of London, the Old Bailey is arguably the world's most well-known criminal court. Serving the Commonwealth since the 17th century, the Old Bailey has seen hundreds of thousands of trials for every offense imaginable, along with serving as the setting for many important trials of the famous and infamous. Designed as a collaboration between the University of Sheffield and the University of Hertfordshire, this ambitious project aims to create a fully searchable digitized collection of the Old Bailey's entire proceedings from 1674 to 1834. Currently, visitors can browse through 22,000 trials, from December 1714 to December 1759. The Web site indicates that the entire proceedings should be online by spring of 2004, so interested persons should continue to check back frequently. From the main page, visitors can search the proceedings (and elect to read a transcription of each trial or view the original document), read about the nature of the proceedings, and read some engaging background essays on crime and punishment through the court's history (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • Historical Directories: Sometime you may find yourself wondering one of the world's eternal questions: How many cutlers were in Sheffield during the 1850s? Well, you might not be actively seeking the answer to that particular query, but this incredibly extensive digital library created by the University of Leicester may help you solve other related historical questions. This digital library contains a host of local and trade directories for England and Wales from 1750 to 1919, many of which were previously only accessible by making a special trip to any number of local historical societies or archives. Curious visitors can search the directories through an interactive map of England and Wales in order to find the information that is most relevant to their interests. Currently, the project provides at least one directory for each segment from the interactive map from the 1850s, 1890s, and 1910s. Visitors can also search the entire digitized archive by keyword, location, and name (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • What was the weather like?: This Web site offers chronological descriptions of notable weather events in British history, including the first and second halves of the nineteenth century.

NINETEENTH-CENTURY PEOPLE AND PLACES

  • Tower Hamlets History Online:  The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is considered by some to be the heart of the East End, the sometimes infamous section of London that fascinated journalists, novelists, and social scientists through the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth. This site offers an excellent collection of both contemporary writings and historical essays, all taken from the Tower Hamlets' Local History Library and Archives, that provide a fascinating look at life in the East End in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Especially useful to scholars and students in British or urban history or literature, the texts can be browsed by title, author, or subject. Separate listings of eyewitness accounts and images are also available, as is a keyword search engine (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • Free Historic Maps:  Created and maintained by the Landmark Information Group, this Website offers roughly 85,000 images of historical maps of regions of the UK. "The maps are dated between 1846 and 1899, and are of 1:10,560 scale." To ease navigation, Landmark has supplied a County Name Gazetteer. The counties are named as they existed around 1850. Selecting a county will present users with a gazetteer of towns" -- 40,000 of which are cross-referenced by the name of the region today. This is a useful resource not only for geographers, but for anyone doing research involving the topography and nomenclature of Victorian England, Scotland, and Wales. No additional applications are needed to view the maps, but the Website recommends a minimum resolution of 1024x768 (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • The Victorian Census Project:  Directed by David Alan Gatley, the Victorian Census Project at Staffordshire University "aims to computerize a number of source documents and related materials relating to Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century." These include nineteenth century census abstracts, vital registration statistics, Poor Law Commissioner returns, and Pigot's and Slater's Typology of England and Wales. This database has the potential to significantly broaden our understanding of British society in the nineteenth century in a number of areas, including health and disease, education and literacy, occupations and employment, and migration. At present, four sub-sets of variables relating to the 1831 and 1861 censuses, and the Scottish Registrar General's Annual Report for 1861, can be downloaded from the site. Each data set is in comma-delimited format. Additional resources at this site include an introduction to the Census Enumerator's Books and a hypertext version of Pigot's and Slater's Typology (under development).

URBAN LIVES

  • A Tour of London 150 Years Ago
  • City of Shadows: A Gothic Tour of Victorian London - includes texts of classic Victorian ghost stories by Mary Braddon, Elizabeth Gaskell and others.
  • The Nineteenth-Century City: includes discussions of such topics as education, work, law and order, fashion, architecture and transportation, with lots of illustrations.
  • Crystal Palace:  The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia has recently released Models of the Crystal Palace, an extension of the "Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London" research project (last mentioned in the December 4, 1998 Scout Report). This amazing site contains luminous photos of the shape and design of the Crystal Palace and provides source materials on its history and construction. The graphics include both high and low detail VRML models, along with interior and exterior animations that give clear and illuminating depictions of the palace. In addition, the site contains a "Lighting Simulation" field that renders images and animations of the building's lighting, as it existed in 1851. This is definitely a site to explore for architects and those users awe-struck by 3-D graphic images (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • A site on the History of Victorian Rail Systems, including a discussion of Dickens and the Railway.
  • WHAT'S A GUINEA? Money and Coinage in Victorian Britain
  • Victorian Economics: An Overview (from The Victorian Web): Victorian Economics: An Overview links synopses of Victorian economic thought with related ideas and cultural contexts. The perspectives of Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, and David Ricardo are presented in addition to opposing view-points from Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens,and John Ruskin. Additional resources on the Victorian publishing industry, intellectual property, and conceptions of social class complete the site (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • An overview of the effects of urbanization on medicine and medical practice in Victorian Britain: From Macbeth-like preparations of arsenic, iron or phosphorous to white coats and x-rays, the Victorians witnessed a medical revolution. Bruce Robinson gives a diagnosis in this BBC sponsored site.
  • A Casebook on Jack the Ripper, Victorian London's most sensational serial killer. This site also has lots of background information on Victorian London, especially Whitechapel, including lots of primary documents suchn as letters, newspaper articles, photographs.
  • Crime and the Victorians: Garrotting and the murders of Jack the Ripper provoked nation-wide panics during the 19th century. Were the Victorians right to think that crime was in decline? An analysis by Professor Clive Emsley, sponsored by the BBC.
  • A History and Gallery of Victorian Police Mugshots.
  • Play the Game of Muck and Brass: It's the 1850s. Much of Britain's landscape is dominated by industrial towns and rapidly expanding cities. Market towns have become provincial backwaters. Millions of people live in poverty whilst a lucky few amass enormous wealth. This social gulf is the reality of Victorian Britain. Towns are built for industry and trade; not for people. Homes are thrown up in a hurry without a thought for their dwellers. Britain has become an economic powerhouse but a country of extremes. In this game you have to help iron out some of these extremes and improve the image of "Cottonopolis". To succeed you will have to think and act like a Victorian.
    The results of your decisions will be measured in a macabre combination of coffins and coins. Your unenviable task is to keep the city's coffers full whilst trying to save as many of your citizens as possible from an early grave. The choices are tough and the dilemmas real. How ready is your conscience for the realities of Victorian Britain? Play 'Muck and Brass' to find out!

ELECTRONIC TEXTS

  • Project Bartleby offers an online collection of reference texts, as well as fiction, poetry and nonfiction.
  • Project Gutenberg offers an extensive on-line text collection- although unfortunately opposed to preserving any bibliographical information.
  • Books On-line by John Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania is an excellent place to start looking for any digitized text. This engine provides links to most on-line text collections. Frequently updated.
  • The Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University).
  • Women Writers Project -- The Brown University Women Writers Project has recently published the beta-test version of an online textbase. The textbase is a collection of primarily pre-Victorian (1450-1850) literature written by women. The initial release of the textbase will include over 200 texts, and 50 to 100 more will be added in the first year. The collection spans a wide array of topics and genres, providing a unique and valuable resource for the study of women's writing in English.

LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES and MUSEUMS 

NINETEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICALS

  • The Punch Cartoon Page
  • Punch: An Overview (from The Victorian Web)
  • The Internet Library of Early Journals: A Digital Library of 18th and 19th Century Journals
  • Victorian periodicals: A Guide to Research, by Rosemary T. VanArsdel
  • 19th Century Advertising History: During the 19th century, one of the most consistently popular American periodicals was Harper's Weekly, an illustrated paper whose circulation was well in excess of over 100,000 on a regular basis. This fine site highlights some of the many creative and inventive advertisements that were prominently displayed in the periodical during the 19th and early 20th centuries. On the site visitors can browse through advertisements for appliances, insurance, foreign travel, farm land, and various medicinal potions. The selection of ads includes one for "pain paint," which begins with a brief doggerel that includes a mention of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868 (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • Athenaeum Project: A searchable on-line database of reviews and reviewers from the Athenaeum newspaper.
  • The Quarterly Review Project:  This site chronicles the early years of the Quarterly Review, one of the two most influential British journals in the first half of the nineteenth century (along with the Edinburgh Review). The brightest gem of the site is probably the index of all 61 issues of the journal for 1809-24, which includes notes, contents, and very importantly as most articles were unattributed, identification of contributors. Also at the site are an essay on the founding and early years of the journal, transcripts of 40 letters from the editor William Gifford, and a bibliographical encyclopedia that covers the journal's authors, significant supporters, and authors reviewed. Another terrific resource at the site, as readership is an open question for any periodical in this era, is a subscription list from 1810, which is incorporated into the bibliographical encyclopedia (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • Penny Magazine: select issues from the 1830s.
  • Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ): ILEJ is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspice of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. The project has digitized selected twenty-year runs of three eighteenth- and three nineteenth-century journals and placed the images online at the site. Journals include: Annual Register (1758-78), Gentleman's Magazine (1731-50), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-77), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-52), Notes and Queries (1849-69), and The Builder (1843-9). Users can browse the journals by volume and section, conduct a standard search, or try a "fuzzy search" (limited availability) (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • Making of America: One of the largest and best online text collections from the University of Michigan. Although limited to American texts, some books are American editions by foreign authors. Thousands of journal articles. Text searches available.

WORKING-CLASS LIVES

  • A Web site exploring the history of Victorian workhouses for the poor
  • Child Labor (from The Victorian Web)
  • Letters from a Victorian Governess
  • The Penny Magazine online - weekly magazine aimed at the working class
  • Victorian Economics: An Overview (from The Victorian Web): Victorian Economics: An Overview links synopses of Victorian economic thought with related ideas and cultural contexts. The perspectives of Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, and David Ricardo are presented in addition to opposing view-points from Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens,and John Ruskin. Additional resources on the Victorian publishing industry, intellectual property, and conceptions of social class complete the site (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • The Victorian Poor Law: An Overview (from The Victorian Web)
  • Victorian Occupations: Life and Labor in the Victorian Period as Seen by Artists, Writers, and Modern Historians (from The Victorian Web).
  • Victorian Social History: An Overview (from The Victorian Web). Contains a treasure trove of pages devoted to such social issues as public health, labor, race, class, gender, education and economics.
  • Elizabeth Rigby's review of Jane Eyre and Report on the Governesses' Benevolent Institution.
  • Industrialization and Invention: The prosperity of the Victorian age was built on a period of rapid economic growth that had its roots in the Industrial Revolution. Dr. Christine MacLeod traces its development and shows that the process owes as much to evolution as revolution.
  • The Workshop of the World: The Industrial revolution promoted the world's first industrial and consumer-oriented society in Britain. in this site Pat Hudson looks at the forces that made Britain the workshop of the world and explains why this industrial dominance lasted such a short time.
  • Victorian Technology: Victorian society was transformed by engineering ingenuity and entrepreneurial prowess, with the most striking advances made in the field of communication. This site by Paul Atterbury examines the legacy of these extraordinary advances in technology.

DOMESTIC LIFE

EDUCATION

CHILDHOOD

  • The New Child, 1730-1830
  • The Sepia Child - photographs of children by Lewis Carroll
  • Images of Victorian Children - from Professor Robin Love's Concepts of Childhood class (CD106)
  • Child Labor in the Nineteenth Century
  • Child Labor (from The Victorian Web)
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children:  From 10 beds in its modest beginnings in 1852, to 200 beds by the end of the 19th century, to 335 beds today, The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) was Britain's first hospital for sick children and is currently celebrating its 150th birthday. The site brings together medical profiles, notes, and photographs that expose the evolution of patient care.  Links from the home page take users on a journey of caring through the ages, what nursing was like, what surgery was like, a 150-year photographic gallery, and 150 years of achievement (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • Nineteenth Century Children's Literature -- The British Library: This database, maintained by the publishing house of Chadwyck-Healey, Ltd., provides searchable records of the British Library's Children's Literature collection, which contains 2,369 titles on 5,527 fiches. Search parameters include title and complete record keyword, author, subject, publisher, year(s) of publication, microfiche number, and number of records retrieved. (Users may also browse possible search terms for each parameter.) Each entry gives a full bibliographic record for the individual text, including author, uniform title, imprint, place and date of publication, pagination, copy-specific notes, British Library shelfmark, and Fiche quantity and number. The site is part of The Nineteenth Century, a larger collection from Chadwyck-Healey and the British Library that catalogs an impressive array of nineteenth-century texts useful for historical and cultural studies (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).

THE GOTHIC

  • The Literary Gothic; Brought to the Web by Jack G. Voller, Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, this site offers links to primary and secondary texts (with a cut-off date of the mid-20th century), illustrations, discussion groups, and more. Users can either browse by author name or by title. Those who wish to range further than this site should check out the Resources section, which contains a useful collection of annotated links, or the Community section, which gives descriptions of discussion groups and organizations devoted to the gothic or related subjects (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • City of Shadows: A Gothic Tour of Victorian London - includes texts of classic Victorian ghost stories by Mary Braddon, Elizabeth Gaskell and others.

    BRITAIN AT WAR

    • An online encyclopedia exploring Britain's role and experiences in World War One, includes chronology, images and lots of information.
    • The World War I Document Archive: The ìGreat Warî is sometimes overshadowed by the legacy of World War II, but historians and other interested parties never forget the importance of this important global war that consumed the world in the second decade of the 20th century. The people at the Brigham Young University Libraries havenít forgotten either, and as such, they have created this archive of primary documents for interested parties. Here visitors can peruse hundreds of transcribed documents divided into sections such as diaries, conventions, the maritime war, and the medical front. The photograph archive is quite nice, as it contains over 1800 photographs that document everything from the role of animals in warfare to various heads of state associated with the times. For those who are looking for specific material, there is also a
      keyword search engine provided here (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
    • The Battle of the Somme: "When the Battle of the Somme ended in November 1916, over one million peoplewere dead as a result of the intense fighting that had dominated the long battle front along the River Somme. Through the use of diaries, letters, maps, and photographs, this compelling online exhibit from the Imperial War Museum examines that long and difficult World War I land battle. These items are all contained within three sections: 'The Battle,' 'Personal Stories,' and 'The Somme Revisited.' In 'The Battle,' visitors can learn about the various aspects of this military endeavor and read essays on the
      German and Commonwealth armies. Moving on, 'Personal Stories' features the recollections of 21 different persons involved in this conflict, including the first-hand memories of Robert Graves, who would go on to author the moving memoir, Goodbye to All That. Finally, 'The Somme Revisited' offers up some insights into the modern interpretations of this epic battle and a few short film clips of cameramen who were present along the Western Front" (Copyright 1994-2008 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
       

    COLONIALISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM


    INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS

    Jane Austen

  • Pride and Prejudice (annotated and searchable text)

    William Blake
  • Blake Online : an interactive site associated with an exhibit at the Tate Museum in London
  • A Background site on Blake's life, times and works 
  • The William Blake Page : an award-winning site with background and links to online texts
  • An Introduction to Blake by Alfred Kazin
  • An online hypertext version of Songs of Innocence and Experience

    • Charlotte Bronte 
  • Jane Eyre, An Introduction - Joyce Carol Oates
  • Jane Eyre (annotated text)
  • The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell (e-text)
  • A Web site of Brontë Texts, Sources, and Criticism, including Elizabeth Rigby's review of Jane Eyre for the Quarterly Review (December 1848).
      • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  • "Sensation Novels" (from Quarterly Review, 1863)

      • Lewis Carroll

  • Lewis Carroll: An Overview: A detailed collection of Web pages from the Victorian Web offers information on Carroll's biography, literary reputation, themes, and historical, economic, scientific and aesthetic contexts.
  • Lewis Carroll Homepage: Sponsored by the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, this site offers a guide to Web and print Lewis Carroll resources and documents.
  • Looking for Lewis Carroll: A site devoted to recent, revisionary biographical research into the complex life of Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson, and some of the mysteries and puzzles surrounding his life, literary work, and reputation.
  • An online portfolio of Lewis Carroll photographs from the Princeton University Library Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. An online exhibit of Carroll's photographs from the University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransome Research Library, includes a page devoted to Carroll's photographs of children.
  • Lewis Carroll Scrapbook: While there have been many notable mathematicians that have made Oxford University (England) home for their academic careers, one of them is better known for his fiction writing than for his problem solving. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll, was the author one of the best known children's story, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Also to his credit is Through the Looking-Glass (1871). At this site maintained by the Library of Congress visitors will find the contents of a scrapbook kept by Carroll during the middle years of his life from 1855 to 1871. Of the 200 pages, 63 contain clippings and writing and all of these are available to view at the site. Users can browse or search for specific items by title or subject (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
    • Joseph Conrad 
  • Reforming Heart of Darkness: The Congo Reform Movement in England and the U.S.
  • Critical resources on Conrad from the Internet Public Library
  • Analyses of three themes in Heart of Darkness (student project)
    Charles Darwin
  • The writings of Charles Darwin on the web. Most of Darwin's published work, as well as correspondence, in citable form with page numbers and illustrations. Edited by John van Wyhe.
  • Darwin, Charles, Autobiography.
  • Jenkin, Fleeming. 'Review of Darwin's The origin of species' The North British Review, June 1867, 46, pp. 277-318.
  • Owen, Richard. Review of Darwin's Origin of Species, Edinburgh Review, 3, 1860, pp. 487-532.

    • Charles Dickens

  • The Dickens Project - University of California
    • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sherlockian.net:  This venerable yet active metasite offers comprehensive links to everything in 221B Baker Street and beyond. Categories include the original Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, major Sherlockian sites, actors and films, books and libraries, parodies, and Victorian Britain.
  • The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: While Sir Arthur Conan Doyle might not have invented the detective story, certainly his numerous works devoted to the sophisticated observations and deductions of Sherlock Holmes and his companion John Watson are some of the most beloved contributions to the genre. Launched several years ago, the Web site is frequently updated, and offers a nice selection of materials that relate the story of Doyle's own life and the many adventures of Holmes and Watson. From the main page, visitors can read about Who's Who in the elaborate world of Sherlock Holmes, browse a list of the stories featuring Holmes and Watson, and read about the death of Sherlock Holmes. Interestingly enough, Doyle's decision to end the storied life of Holmes led 20,000 people to the magazine in which his final story appeared to cancel their subscriptions. The site is rounded out by an essay that describes Doyle's intense belief in spiritualism and some brief discussion of his other works of fiction, most notably The Lost World (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).
  • The Literary Gothic's Gaskell page
George Orwell  

The Pre-Raphaelites
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Critic:  Thomas J. Tobin, a graduate student at Duquesne University, has assembled this comprehensive scholarly archive of critical articles from the nineteenth century regarding the Pre-Raphaelite circle of painters and poets. The archive contains citations of magazine and newspaper reviews of pre-Raphaelite works from 1849-1900. The archive is indexed in four HTML tables: Alphabetical by Author Last Name, Chronological by Article Publication Date, By Subject-Heading in William Fredeman's Pre-Raphaelitism, and Alphabetical by Periodical Title. The archive contains a few full text selections of reviews, and Tobin plans to add more as he scans them. Additional site features include a collection of plates of pre-Raphaelite works and audio recordings of poems from the 1965 Decca/Argo Records release of The Pre-Raphaelites (Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu).

  • Jean Rhys
    Bram Stoker
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    William Makepeace Thackeray

    Oscar Wilde

Mary Wollstonecraft


William Wordsworth