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Victorian Links

P.S. When researching Victorian literature, life, and art, don't forget to check the library, particularly the books I've put on reserve for this class

Useful Hale Resources

Databases

Citations only:

MLA Bibliography. The essential tool for exhaustive research, especially on the graduate level.
Dickens Studies Annual and Victorian Studies.

Full-Text Online:

JSTOR. Great resource for full-text articles from important journals such as Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Nineteenth-Century Literature (full list of journals)
Project Muse. Supplies full-text articles from important journals such as Victorian Studies through Johns Hopkins University Press
Literature Resource Center. A good resource for undergraduate students or for graduate students looking for information in a hurry. Sponsored by the Gale Group, it provides online access to the text from Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author, and other reference works.
- For those of you who are new to or rusty at writing literature research papers, LRC provides a nifty "Research Guide" from a link at the bottom of its home page.
- Caution: LRC should NOT be used as a substitute for the MLA bibliography.

Victorian Studies on the Web Fine academic list of places to find information about Victorian Studies.

The Victorian Web Wonderful (though not definitive) site on Victorian authors and topics.

Victorian Web Sites Exhaustive set of links to pages of interest on all levels--from clubs to books to history.

Undergraduate Victorian Studies Online Teaching Anthology

Victorian Women Writers Project

Victorian Bibliography Online. A useful project from Indiana University.

Victoria Listserv One of the best listservs around--great discussions on a wide variety of topics. A must for students interested in Victorian studies, though the volume can be a bit much. The archives are also very valuable.

The Little Professor blog. Amazingly exhaustive set of Victorian links plus quirky commentary on things Victorian, life, furniture.

The British Empire. Handy, but not definitive, overview. Lots of information about political figures which may be helpful

History Links

Genesis. Links to women's history resources in the U.K., U.S., and other anglophone countries.
Encyclopedia of Victorian London. A social history site with lots of great graphics.
Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London. A site with a few interesting elements: the clickable map of London is handy. It's ambitious, but hasn't quite achieved its potential.
The Workhouse. An informative site on the history of the workhouse and poor laws, with pictures.

Literature Links

Nineteenth-century Schoolbooks. For those interested in education and its history.
Victorian Sensationalism. Source for material on Wilkie Collins and other sensational writers.
Victorian Sensation Writers. A list.
Women in the Literary Marketplace 1800-1900

Bronte Links

Bronte Sisters Web From the intrepid Mitsuharu Matsuoka. Too pink, but that may just be me.
Elizabeth Gaskell's semi-authorized biography, The Life of Charlotte Bronte.
Bronte Country. A tourist- and fan-oriented site about Haworth, Yorkshire and the surrounding area.
Bronte Parsonage Museum. Where it all started.

Collins Links

Wilkie Collins Website. Connected with the Wilkie Collins Society. An expansive, interesting site.
Wilkie Collins Bibliography

Dickens Links

The Dickens Project

The Dickens Project "Links" Page

The Charles Dickens Museum

Charles Dickens Overview on the Victorian Web.

Biography of Charles Dickens, by life-long friend John Forster.

New movie of Oliver Twist (2005), directed by Roman Polanski

Eliot Links

George Eliot. Another site from the indefatigable Misuharu Masuoka.
George Eliot the Sage. Quotations from this very quotable author.

Gaskell Links

The Gaskell Web. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). An exhaustive set of information and links from (who else?) Mitsuharu Matsuoka.
The Gaskell Society Home Page

Thackeray Links

Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Thackeray Page

Complete Texts of Thackeray's Works (annoying graphics).

William Makepeace Thackeray Overview on the Victorian Web.

Movie of Vanity Fair (2004), directed by Mira Nair

This list of resources is necessarily incomplete. If you find a resource you think should be included, please let me know.

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