EFL Resource Guides: Victorian & Edwardian Literature

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The Day Dream (1880) - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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RESOURCE GUIDE

Victorian and Edwardian Literature 1830 - WWI


Web Resources (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers > 1830-1945) Nineteenth Century Fiction - 250 complete works of prose fiction by 102 authors from the period 1782-1903. Nineteenth century serials edition (NCSE) - Online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. Includes the English Woman's Journal (1858-1864) and the Publisher's Circular (1880-1890). Past Masters - Digitizations of the works and correspondence of Austen, Coleridge, Hume, Pope, Swift, Tennyson, and the Wordsworths. Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003) - Full facsimile run of the Illustrated London News. Literary Resources: Victorian British - Part of the 'Literary Resources on the Net' website from Jack Lynch of Rutgers University. Nineteenth-Century Disability: Cultures and Contexts - An interdisciplinary collection of primary texts and images on physical and cognitive disability in the long nineteenth century (c. 1780 to 1914). N I N E S (Network Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Scholarship) - A scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. Monuments and Dust: Victorian London - A visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London. Victorian Women Writers Project - Project by Indiana University primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The Victorian Plays Project - A digital archive of over 350 selected plays from T.H. Lacy's Acting Edition of Victorian Plays (1848-1873).


The Yellow Nineties Online - An open-access, peer-reviewed electronic resource focused on The Yellow Book and other avantgarde aesthetic periodicals that flourished in Great Britain at the fin-desiècle. Streetprint: Revolution & Romanticism – A collection of nearly 200 texts of street literature – popular ballads, chapbooks, political pamphlets etc. Nineteenth-Century English Novel: Bibliographic Resources - Links to online resources and a bibliography of works related to the 19th Century English Novel. Utilitarian Philosophers: – Works by David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, Henry Sidgwick & J.S. Mill. The Modernist Journals Project - Digital editions of culturally significant magazines from the early 20th century. First World War Poetry Digital Archive – Collection of over 7,000 items of text, images, audio & video. Including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. Tate Britain – Holds works by Constable and Pre-Raphaelites e.g. Rossetti, Millais, Burne-Jones etc.

Resources for specific writers (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers > 1830-1945) Odour of Chrysanthemums: A text in progress - Project that traces the development of D H Lawrence's Odour of Chrysanthemums through digitized texts. Ashmolean − The Elements of Drawing - Online database of John Ruskin’s Teaching Collection at Oxford. Ruskin at Walkley - A reconstruction of the original setting of the Ruskin Collection in the St George's Museum, Walkley.


The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project - A digital collection and scholarly project devoted to the life and work of Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne. Rossetti Archive - Searchable collection of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's pictorial and textual works. The Dickens Project - Consortium of American universities, includes links, bibliographies and scholarship. William Morris Gallery - A public gallery devoted to the life and legacy of William Morris.

Faculty Resources: Cambridge Authors - Project focusing on authors who studied at Cambridge - includes EM Forster & Sylvia Plath. The Samuel Butler Project - Collection of material produced by and relating to the Victorian polymath Samuel Butler (1835-1902) held by St John’s College Library.

Faculty Research Groups: Nineteenth-Century Studies Hub – The English Faculty research community in Nineteenth-Century Studies.

Sections within the Library Ground floor: E 61 – E 635 (1830-1870)

E 64 individual authors

E 71 – E 735 (1870 onwards)

E 74 individual authors

First floor: K 6 & K7 visual art DVDS – Screen adaptations of novels by Thomas Hardy Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, and others. Find more on the DVD shelves or search iDiscover.


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