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Literature and Literary
Research
Archives of
Victoria@listserv.indiana.edu
The archives of the Victoria List are concerned
with nineteenth century British Culture and Society. Members are mainly
literature faculty and students. Search engine. Join or leave the list.
British
Sensation
Fiction
Description of the early whodunit, of romantic
fiction, and of sensation fiction. Individual authors, including
Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, and Charlotte Bronte. Brief discussion
of literary doubles.
British
Women Playwrights
Around 1800
Discussion, e-text of plays, bibliographies, and
bulletin board.
Children's
Literature, Chiefly from
the Nineteenth Century
Catalog of exihibit at the University of North
Carolina. Categories include
instruction, relgion, and early didactic writers; travel, folktales,
and nursery stories; some mid-century
developments--women writers and the renascence of wonder; boys' stories
of school, adventure, and
empire; late Victorian illustrators, Peter Rabbit, and the Wizard of
Oz.
Domestic
Goddesses: a.k.a. "scribbling
mobs of women"
A moderated E-journal devoted to American women
writing domestic fictions,
starting with the nineteenth century.. Critical papers by graduate
students, general Victorian links, FAQ,
bibliographies, discussion forum, listserv, and sample course syllabus.
Gaslight.
An Internet list which each week discusses one work
of mystery, adventure, and The Weird, written between 1800-1919.
Includes e-texts of current and past readings. A search engine.
Literary
Resources--Victorian
British
Links to other Victorian Web sites, including
general sites and individual
authors.
The
Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Contemporary
Criticism of the Pre Raphaelites from 1846-1900
Brief description of the Pre-Raphaelite painters and
nineteenth century reviews
of their work, images of their paintings and photographs, audio clips
of their poems, and parodies of their
works.
A
Regency Repository of
Arts, Literature, Fashion, Personalities, Inventions, Learning, the
Domestic Arts, and Matters Military &
Political
The title indicates the scope of this site, which
also includes music. The
Regency lasted from 1811 to 1820, when the Prince of Wales served as
Regent because of George III's
insanity (really porphyria?).
Victoria
Research Web: Scholarly Resources for
Victorian Research
Site associated with the Victoria List. Tips and
links to help Victorianists find
information, e.g., archive catalogues, libraries and bibliographies,
listserv addresses, sample syllabi, and
journals.
The
Victorian
Web
A goldmine of information and a must-explore site.
Topics: the Victorians,
gender matters, social history, political history, economics, religion,
philosophy, literature, genre and
technique, the visual arts, science, economic contexts, Victorian Web
books, authors, related courses, links,
and technology. A search engine.
Victorian Web Books
Project
More than 15,000 scholarly e-books on a wide range
of Victorian subjects,
including literature, the arts and design, the history of science,
religion, economics, social history, and
political history.
Victorian
Women Writers Project.
E-texts of anthologies, novels, political pamphlets,
religious tracts, and
volumes of poetry and verse drama written by women.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Victorian Literature
This is the site to begin explorations and to
consult repeatedly afterward. It lists links to other Web sites:
general resources in Victorian literature; authors, works, projects;
selected social issues and writing; course syllabi and teaching
resources; criticism and critics (general); journals; listservs and
newsgroups; and conferences and calls for papers.
Art, Architecture, and the
Performing Arts
F.O.C. Darley
Page
Felix Octavisu Carr Darley, a prominent nineteenth
century illustrator, was recently elected to the Society of
Illustrators Hall of Fame.
The
British
Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Over 2300 images of decorative art. To see the
19th century holdings,click on objects at the top of the page;
when a smaller window opens, find instant search at the top of
the page; in the first text box, enter "nineteenth" and enter "century"
in the second text box, after the and. Click on the Search
button. Graphic thumbnail images of the holdings appear; click on the
thumbnail image for an explanation of the image.
A
Flowering of Affection: Victorian Valentine Cards at the Lilly Library
A brief survey of the Victorian valentine cards, which ranged
from the sentimental to the comic. Send an e-valentine to that special
someone (or someones).
The Great
Exhibition at the Crystal
Palace
For the Victorians the Great Exhibit of 1851
expressed the glories and glamor of industry. And one of the wonders of
the Great Exhibition was the Crystal Palace; it captured their
imaginations and, in itself, represented the wonders of technology and
industry. This site presents images of the Crystal Palace and brief
discussion.
Footlight
Notes
Online newsletter about British music hall,
vaudeville, comedy, and other
popular entertainment from 1850 to the 1920s. Biographies of
performers, photographs, and reviews.
High
Victorian Gothic
Nineteenth century architecture in England.
Comparison to High Victorian Gothic in America. Images of Gothic
buildings.
Image
and Sentiment: Five Publishers of
Victorian Holiday Cards
Ever wonder what kind of cards the Victorians
sent? This collection of Christmas
cards will answer your question. You can also send cards
electronically.
National
Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856
to collect the likenesses of famous British men and women. The site
contains over 11,500 images. Search by names of individuals; by recent
acquisitions; groups, types of portraits, timeline in relation to
hundreds of documents; and by century.
Queen
Victoria: Images of Her World
See what Victoria looked like when young (she wasn't
always formidable-looking and old). Also includes contemporary
paintings of her coronation, her extensive family, and her court.
Nineteenth-Century
Studies Resources
An invaluable bibliography, this site lists
nineteenth century bibliographies and historiographies, periodicals and
newspapers, literary reviews, government publications, selected
nineteenth century collections, and popular culture..
Economics, History,
Politics, and Sociology
The
UK 1901 Census
The Public Record Office's site is useful for
information about the period and for genelogical research.
The
British
Empire
A timeline of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and
twentieth centuries covers articles, biographies, maps, art and
culture, the armed forces, science and technology, and other resources.
The
British Library Online Newspaper Archive
Selected issues of nineteenth century
newspapers--the Daily News, Manchester Guardian, News of the World,
and the Weekly Dispatch-give a sense of what newspapers looked
like and "felt"like. This site is still under construction, so the
search engine is not yet functioning, the site supports only Internet
Explorer 5 for Windows, and screen resolution must be set at 1024 x 768
or higher.
The
Emancipation of Women, 1750-1920
Biographies of feminists and descriptions of
feminist groups. The section on the nineteenth century covers
schooling, university education, birth control, marriage, careers and
professions, industrial work, pressure groups, strategy and tactics,
and Parliamentary reform acts.
Histsex:
A discussion list for historians of sexuality
Contains sections on "Victoriana" and "Sex,
Victorians and Historians."
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: The Long 19th Century
Original documents dealing with radicalism and
liberal reform in England, the Victorian sensibility, Victorian
literature, and Ireland.
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: 19th Century England
Another repository of original documents on the
nineteenth century and an expansion of the previous entry.
Monuments
and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
International scholars are assembling a visual,
textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London, the
largest nineteenth century city. Includes models of the Crystal Palace,
vol. I of London: A Pilgrimage by Dore and Jerrold, Times
extracts, London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew,
mortality and population statistics for London. Archive.
Nineteenth
Century British and Indian Armies and Their Soliders
Photographs of soldiers; explanation of military
orders, decorations, and campaign medals; biographies of soldiers; and
glossary of military terms.
Punch: A
History Project.
As a project for an honors seminar, students
analyzed political cartoons from Punch. Several students wrote
Web-ready papers, rather than conventional papers..
Some Views of
Dirt and Drudgery
Quotations from a variety of Victorian writers on
manual and industrial work.
The
Victorian Census Project
Statistics from Census abstracts for 1851, 1861, and
1871; complete 1831 Census; country statistics for 1801, 1811, 1821,
and 1841 Census abstracts. E-text of some sources of the statistics.
Links with related sites.
Victorian
Database Online
Search over 100,000 records listing books,
articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1945 to 1999 on
every field of nineteenth-century British studies. Search by author's
name, title, or keywords.
Victorian
Dictionary
A guide to the social history of London. It is
comprehensive in the number and range of topics covered, beginning
alphabetically with advertising and architecture and moving through
Crime, Death and Dying, and Disease, to Religion and Sex and ending
with Weather, Women,and Words and Expressions. It's a fun site to
browse.
The
Victorian Turkish Bath
Discusses the origins, development, and gradual
decline of the Victorian Turkish bath. Numerous illustrations of
people, places, things.
A
Web of English History
Discussion of influential political figures,
political organizations (Whigs, Conservatives, Tories, Chartists, and
the Anti-Corn League), and popular political movements (Chartism, The
Anti-Corn League, trade unions, the factory movement, the war of the
unstamped press, and public health). Primary materials include text and
images.
What's a
Guinea? Money and Coinage in
Victorian --and Twnetieth Century--England
If you've ever wondered what a guinea is or how many
shillings make up a pound, this site will explain the mysteries of
English currency before 1971, when Britain adopted a decimal system of
currency. A wealth of information on the social implications and
practices of the currency.
Women
and the Law in Victorian England
Lecture for honors course, Self and Society in
Victorian England. Summary of main provisions of the laws relating to
women, especially married women.
Jane Austen
Jane
Austen Information Page
A miscellany, this site contains hypertext annotated
early novels; e-text of passages from novels, whole novels, light
verse, and letters; biography; jokes about Austen; critical
articles;images of Austen; link to the Jane Austen Society; the four
film adapations, and bibliographies. Includes FAQ. Search engine of
Austen_L archives and texts of all six novels. Note: I find this site
is often not accessible.
Jane
Austen Page (Mitsuhara Matsuoka)
Extensive list of links to Austen home pages and to
discussion groups, Austen chronology, works and e-texts, "academic
resources," and discussion and images of Hampshire (Austen country).
On
Liking Emma
A lecture from an honors course, Comedy and Society.
The
Republic of Pemberley
Discussion group, film adaptions of the novels,
links to other Austen sites, quotes from authors about Austen, Austen's
letters, criticsm, biography, and calendars behind the novels. Check
out the Jane Austen Information Page, which includes a sensual scene, the answers to
the riddles and charades in Emma, and geneology charts for
the characters.
The Bronte Sisters
British
Sensation
Fiction
Includes Emily Bronte and Charlotte Bronte. Site
discussed under "Literature and Literary Research."
Bronte
Sisters Web
Information about the Bronte
Society, extensive links to other sites, information about Anne, Emily,
and Charlotte Bronte, and message board.
Charlotte
Bronte: An Overview
A thorough presentation by the Victorian Web.
Materials on her biography, discussion of contempary background, e.g.,
political history, social history, religion, etc. E-text of Jane
Eyre and discussion of it.
Emily
Bronte: An Overview
A thorough presentation by the Victorian Web.
Materials on her biography, discussion of contempary background, e.g.,
political history, social history, religion, etc. Discussion of Wuthering Heights..
Jane
Eyre Notes.
A lecture from an honors course, Self and Society in
Victorian Society.
Wuthering
Heights
E-text of the novel.
Charles Dickens
Charles
Dickens Overview
A thorough presentation by the Victorian Web.
Materials on his biography, discussion of contempary background, e.g.,
political history, social history, religion. E-text of Great
Expectations and an overview.
Charles
Dickens Page
An informative site, with a biography, discussion
of the novels and characters, illustrations, Dickens London, Dickens
London Map, Dickens & Christmas, etc. A Q&A with a Dickens
expert.
Charles
Dickens Page
E-texts of the novels, short stories, and articles
as well as a few letters. Dickens lists.
The
Dickens Project: University of California
The Dickens Project promotes the study and
enjoyment of Dickens's life, times, and work. Lists conferences,
publications, and Dickens fellowships. Life of Dickens, links to
Dickens sites, and Dickens archive.
George Eliot
George Eliot
Links to other Eliot sites,
information on the George Eliot Fellowship.
George
Eliot: An Overview
A thorough presentation by the Victorian Web.
Materials on her biography, an introduction, discussion of contemporary
background, e.g., political history, social history, religion. E-texts
and bibliography.
"George
Eliot" by Virginia Woolf
Critical essay by Virginia Woolf on George Eliot.
George Eliot
Quotes
A compilation of quotations from Eliot's novels.
Reinforces the image of her as the Wise Woman.
Middlemarch
Summary of lecture for honors course, Self and
Society in the Victorian Novel.
Middlemarch:
A Study of Provincial Life
Critical reception, publication history, and
annotated bibliography for the novel. Biography of Eliot.
The Wit
and Wisdom of George Eliot
More quotations from Eliot's writings. Links to
other Eliot sites.
Thomas Hardy
The Hardy
Society of North America
Information about the society. Forum discussion
group and poetry discussion group. Biography, list of dramatizations of
Hardy's fiction by himself and others, Hardy's maps of Wessex (his
fictional creation, of course). The link to Tess of the
D'Urbervilles produces only a photograph of a pocket edition of the
novel.
Thomas
Hardy
A thorough presentation by the Victorian Web.
Biography, themes, imagery, characterization, setting, discussion of
contempary background, e.g., political history, social history,
religion, etc. E-texts and bibliography.
Tess
of the
D'Urbervilles
E-text of the novel.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Study
Guide and Essays
A summary and brief analysis of each phase in
Tess's life cycle. This site is filled with advertisements.
William Makepeace
Thackeray
Biographical
Introduction.
Introduction to The Complete Works of William
Makepeace Thackeray (1897-99) by Ann Thackeray Ritchie, Thackeray's
daughter.
Becky Sharp of Vanity
Fair.
Paper doll showing the kinds of dresses Becky might
have worn.
Vanity
Fair.
E-text (yes, it's the whole novel). Useful for
locating passages with the search engine.
Vanity
Fair.
A lecture from an honors course, Self and Society in
the Victorian Novel.
Other Authors: A Sampling
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Includes a recording of Tennyson reading one of his
poems
Beeton's
Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book.
E-text. The standard Victorian cookbook and guide to
entertaining.
Bram
Stoker Home Page
Stoker, of course, wrote Dracula.
The
Fiction of Wilkie Collins
Gissing
in Cyberspace
"L.E.L."
Verses
and The Keepsake for 1829
Replicates The Keepsake, the most popular
and innovative anthology of illustrated poetry and prose, with
scholarly comment on this and other annuals. This is the kind of
publication Lydgate puts down to Rosamond in Middlemarch.
Frankenstein:
Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
Sherlockian.Net
The
Robert Louis Stevenson Home Page
Anthony Trollope
The
William Morris Society Web Site
The
Oscholars: Oscar Wilde and his Circle
September 9, 2010
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