Literary Resources -- Victorian British

• Mailing lists and calls for papers
• Voice of the Shuttle -- Victorian
• Course Syllabi
• General Sites:
  • Victorian Web (Brown) -- An extensive and well-designed collection of information on Victorian culture and history. Bibliographies and essays on the social context, economics, religion, philosophy, literature, the visual arts, science, technology, politics, and gender. The entire collection is searchable, and includes good links to other sites. O sic sic omnes!
  • Victoria Research Web (Indiana) -- A collection of Victorian materials associated with the (very active) VICTORIA mailing list.
  • The Victorian Literature Website: Everything Victorian (Jen Buttaro) -- Very short biographies for Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Carroll, Collins, Dickens, Disraeli, George Eliot, and Gissing; a few poems; a guide to currency; quotations; a chronology; and links. Not scholarly and just getting off the ground, but promises to be useful.
  • LITIR Database on Victorian Studies (Alberta) -- Information on the CD-ROM bibliography of Victorian studies.
  • Victorian Web Sites (Japan) -- Impressive and up-to-date collection of links on Victorian England.
  • 19th Century Authors in UK (Nagoya Univ., Japan) -- A big and up-to-date collection of links to author pages.
  • VicWEB: University of Windsor's Online Victorian Resource -- Aiming to be a major index to Victorian resources. There's not much there yet, and there are a number of dead ends, but it shows promise. Requires frames.
  • The Victorian Canon (Rita Raley and Jennifer Jones, UCSB) -- "Devoted to exploring the problems of taste and aesthetics with regard to the Victorian canon and the literary canon as a whole." Information on courses and a bibliography of anthologies of Victorian literature. Very thoughtful.
  • Electronic Resources for Nineteenth Century Studies (Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College) -- A free-form discussion of electronic resources, including links to some of the major sties.
  • New Books in 19th-Century Studies (USC) -- "This site offers complete publication information for scholarly works on the British Romantic and Victorian periods. Here you can find authors, titles, publishers, prices, ISBN numbers and publishers' descriptions for new and forthcoming critical works, anthologies, and critical editions of nineteenth-century British materials. In addition, original reviews are available for selected works."
  • Victoriana, Resources for Victorian Living -- More popular than scholarly ("Celebrate a Victorian Christmas!"), but contains useful information on daily life in Victorian England.
  • Women (individual women authors appear below):
    • The Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana) -- "The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). ... Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them."
    • A 19th Century Woman's Place: Introduction to a Victorian Woman's World -- Unscholarly (but enjoyable) collection of miscellaneous material on women's lives in Victorian England. Information on fashion, decorative arts, &c.
  • Victorian Cultural Studies (Virginia) -- Course syllabus with extensive links to related materials. Includes student projects.
  • "The White Man's Burden" and Its Critics: Anti-Imperialism, 1898-1935 (Jim Zwick) -- Kipling's poem set in a very extensive array of contextual materials on imperialism.
  • The Punch Cartoons Page (Anthony S. Wohl and students, Vassar) -- About a dozen cartoons from Victorian issues of Punch, with commentary and a few research papers.
  • Annotated Bibliography on Chartism (Ursula Strange, Nipissing Univ.) -- Extensive bibliography of Chartism after 1844.
  • Queen Victoria:
    • Queen Victoria resources (Virginia) -- A big, unannotated collection of links.
  • Theatre:
    • General Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Theatre (Univ. of Washington) -- A mix of primary and secondary sources, some annotated, some not.
    • The 19th-Century London Stage: An Exploration (Washington) -- A collection of brief documents on Victorian life and culture.
  • Pre-Raphaelitism:
    • Pre-Raphaelite Society Pages (York Univ., UK) -- Information on the Society, with a few links.
    • Pre-Raphaelites -- Unscholarly but attractive collection of scanned Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Thumbnails lead to high-resolution JPEGs.
    • The Germ:The Romantics, the Pre-Raphaelites & the Bloomsbury Movements (Meg Wise-Lawrence) -- Information on the Pre-Raphaelite circle, with biographical sketches of several of the major figures.
    • The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Contemporary Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelites from 1849-1900 (Thomas J. Tobin, Duquesne) -- Extensive collection of information on how the Pre-Raphaelites were viewed in their own day. Very impressive.
    • WebMagick Presents: The Pre-Raphaelite Collection -- On-line art exhibition; requires frames.
  • Associations and Societies:
    • Northeast Victorian Studies Association (UTM) -- Information on the Association, with links to other Victorian sites.
    • The Victorian Society in America -- Informationon the Society.
    • The 1890s Society -- Information on the Society, with links to other sites.
  • Journals:
    • Nineteenth Century Studies (Franklin & Marshall) -- Information on the journal, including recent tables of contents.
    • Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (Notre Dame) -- Information on the journal.
    • Victorian Poetry Home Page (West Virginia) -- Information on the journal.
• The Brontës:
  • The Brontë Sisters Web (Japan) -- Extensive and well-prepared pages, with E-texts, links, and other useful information.
  • The Brontës (Barbara Gelpi and graduate students, Stanford Univ.) -- Bibliographies, images, and links.
  • Brontë Parsonage Web Site: Official Museum Pages -- Information for visitors and a few links.
  • The Brontë Archives (Geocities) -- Unscholarly appreciation of Emily Brontë's poetry.
  • The Emily Brontë Page (Steph Gray, Oxford) -- Annotated links.
• Robert Browning:
  • The Browning Page (Glenn Everett and students, UTM) -- Hypertext editions of Browning's poems, with many images from the art Browning knew.
  • The Browning Society (Scott Lewis, Univ. College London) -- Information on the Society (on both Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning), with brief biographical sketches and links.
• Lewis Carroll:
  • Lewis Carroll (Fairrosa) -- Miscellaneous and unscholarly information on Carroll.
• G. K. Chesterton:
  • G. K. Chesterton (Martin Ward, Univ. of Durham) -- Links to various resources (including E-texts by and about Chesterton), with a brief biography and images.
  • The American Chesterton Society -- Information on the Society.
• Wilkie Collins:
  • Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page (David R. Grigg, Australia) -- Unscholarly but well organized.
• Charles Dickens:
  • Dickens Project (University of California) -- Information on Dickens scholarhip, including conferences, publications, and other on-line resources.
  • The Dickens Page (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) -- A well-designed and up-to-date collection of links to Dickens resources.
  • Charles Dickens, Gad's Hill Place (Marsha Perry) -- Unscholarly fan site on Dickens's life and works.
• Benjamin Disraeli:
  • The Disraeli Project (Queen's University) -- Information on the large-scale editing project.
• Ernest Dowson:
  • The Ernest Dowson Page (Wayne State) -- E-texts, biographies, chronologies, links, and general information on the fin de siècle.
• Arthur Conan Doyle & Sherlock Holmes:
  • Sherlockian Holmepage (Chris Redmond, Waterloo) -- A good, scholarly starting point, by an authority on Doyle, with many links to the stories and information on them and their pop-culture manifestations.
  • 221B Baker Street -- Links to E-texts, scanned images, and links to other Holmes resources.
  • The Scarlet Threaded Web -- Sherlock Holmes Pages
• George Eliot:
  • Chronological List of George Eliot's works (Princeton) -- A short timeline, with links to the works and to a search engine of all of Eliot's novels.
• Elizabeth Gaskell:
  • The Gaskell Web (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) -- A well-designed and up-to-date collection of links to Gaskell resources on the Net.
• Gilbert and Sullivan:
  • Gilbert and Sullivan Archive (IDBSU) -- Big fan site, including "clip art, librettos, plot summaries, pictures of the original G&S stars, song scores, midi and mpeg audio files (which allow you to actually listen to the music), and newsletter articles."
• George Gissing:
  • George Robert Gissing page (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) -- Extensive, well-organized, and up-to-date collection of Gissing links.
  • George Gissing Website (Peter Morton, Flinders Univ.) -- Overview, biographies, E-texts, criticism, and extensive and annotated links. Very impressive.
• Thomas Hardy:
  • Thomas Hardy Society of North America (Yale), including Hardy-related sites -- A first-rate collection with a superb and thorough collection of site reviews. O si sic omnes!
  • Thomas Hardy (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) -- Extensive, well-designed, and up-to-date collection of links.
  • Thomas Hardy Miscellany (Andover) -- Original articles and photographs on Hardy and his works.
  • Thomas Hardy Resource Library -- Chronology, links to E-texts, reviews of recent books (more popular than scholarly), and images.
  • Thomas Hardy's World (Gettysburg) -- Class projects in three coordinated Hardy classes at Gettysburg, Franklin and Marshall, and Dickinson Colleges. Biography, publication information on the novels, photographs of relevant locations, essays on cultural contexts, and links.
  • Bruce's Thomas Hardy Photo Archive -- Original photographs of Wessex.
  • The Thomas Hardy Society -- Unscholarly, and unaffiliated with the Hardy Societies of the UK and North America.
• Gerard Manley Hopkins:
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins Page (David Callon, Creighton) -- A big collection of information, including biographies, E-texts, book reviews, criticism, information on relevant journals, mailing lists, and Web resources.
  • Electronic Resources Related to G. M. Hopkins and his Poetry (R. J. C. Watt, Univ. of Dundee) -- A handy set of links to Hopkins and related matters.
• A. E. Housman:
  • A. E. Housman Page (Martin Hardcastle, Bristol) -- Many E-texts of the poems.
• Caroline Norton:
  • Caroline Norton (CMU) -- Primary bibliography and brief biography.
• George MacDonald:
  • The Golden Key: The George MacDonald WWW Page (Mike Partridge) -- Links, E-texts, photos, bibliography, and brief essays.
• Karl Marx:
  • The Marx/Engels Internet Archive (Colorado) -- E-texts, photos, chronologies, and biographical sketches.
• William Morris:
  • William Morris Home Page (CUNY) -- Provides "news of Morris-related events and publications; information about the worldwide William Morris Society; materials relating to the life and work of Morris, his friends and followers; and links to other places of interest on the Internet." Includes a bibliography, a biography, E-texts, information on places, portraits, and reviews of books about Morris.
• Walter Pater:
  • Walter Pater (Subir Grewal) -- Brief biography, list of published works, a short bibliography of criticism, and a few E-texts.
• Dante Garbriel Rossetti:
  • The Rossetti Archive (Jerome McGann, Virginia) -- In-progress archive of Rossetti's textual and graphical works, undertaken with impressive care and erudition. "In an ideal imagining the Archive will hold a digital image of every textual and pictorial document relevant to the study of Rossetti."
• John Ruskin:
  • John Ruskin Page (Peter Morgan, Toronto) -- A handful of links to miscellaneous Ruskin material.
• Robert Louis Stevenson:
  • Robert Louis Stevenson Page (Richard Dury, Univ. of Bergamo, Italy) -- Extensive and well-organized collection of material, including biographies, primary and secondary bibliographies, a filmography, events, associations, images, &c.
• Arthur Symons:
  • Arthur Symons Page -- E-texts of several poems, a brief chronology, and links on the '90s.
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
  • The Tennyson Page (SFSU) -- E-texts, a brief chronology, and a few audio files.
• Anthony Trollope:
  • Anthony Trollope: An Overview (Victorian Web) -- The best starting place for information on Trollope on the Web.
  • Anthony Trollope (Mitsuharu Matsuoka) -- Links, E-texts, and chronology.
  • The Trollope.Org Page -- A handy set of links to the major Trollope resources, including a discussion group.
• Oscar Wilde:
  • The Wild Wilde Web -- Biography, bibliography of a few dozen secondary works, and quotations from other authors about Wilde.
  • Oscar Wilde Sites on the World-Wide Web -- Annotated links to other sites. Well done.