British and Romantic Victorian Cultures

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Journals
Essential Starting Points
Electronic Text Projects
19th century American literature
Women's Studies
Societies
Syllabi
Other


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Journals
Brontë Studies. A Journal of the Brontë Society.
Journal of Victorian Culture
Nineteenth Century Contexts
Nineteenth Century Feminisms
Nineteenth Century Literature
Nineteenth Century Studies
Victorian Literature and Culture
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Review
Victorian Studies
Victorian Studies Bulletin
Victorians Institute Journal

19th Century British Journals
British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early Nineteenth Century
The Germ: A Hypermedia Edition
Internet Library of Early Journals Home Page. (Oxford) The aim of this project is to offer expanded access over the Internet to digitised page images of substantial runs of 18th- and 19th-century journals.
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19th Century American Journals (from Electronic Historical Publications)
Godey's Lady's Book Online Home Page
Parker's Natural and Experimental Philosophy
Penny Magazine Online Home Page
19th Century Scientific American Home Page
Youth's Educator For Home And Society - 1896
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Some Essential Starting Points
"Babbage's Children: Victorian Studies Resources on the Internet". Patrick Leary, Indiana University
The Victoria Research Web. (Indiana University) Includes an index to the VICTORIA electronic discussion group, guides to research in Victorian Studies, information on planning research trips to Great Britian, and more.
Victorian Web. (Brown University) A hypertext encyclopedia to all aspects of the Victorian era.
Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian Literature. (UC Santa Barbara)
Voice of the Shuttle: 19th Century British Art
Victorian Web Sites. (Nagoya University, Japan)
NVSA--Links to Victorian Web Sites. (Northeast Victorian Studies Association)
Literary Resources: Victorian Period. (Jack Lynch, Rutgers University)
New Books in 19th-Century Studies (University of Southern California)
Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA)
Victorians on the Web (Vassar)
A Celebration of Women Writers
Aspects of the Victorian Book. An exhibition at the British Library.
Undergraduate Victorian Studies Online Teaching Anthology. University of Minnesota. Includes periodical articles by Mona Caird, Marie Corelli, Dame Millicent Fawcett, and E. Lynn Linton.
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Projects
The Emanicipation of Women 1860-1920
The Victorian Census Project
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1815-1914
Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930 (Univ of Minnesota)
The Victorian Canon
The Munster Women Writers Project. This project will compile a detailed scholarly bibliography of writings by women from Munster, Ireland from 1800 to the present.
Designing an Epistolary Corpus of Victorian Women Writers' Letters. Katherine Patterson, Simon Fraser University.
The Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project. Katherine Patterson, Simon Fraser University.
Victorian Popular Fiction.
Women Writers Project 1350-1850 (Brown University)
Women of the Romantic Period (Univ of Texas)
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (UC Davis)
British Women Playwrights around 1800
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
Romantic Circles
The Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project
The Corvey Project
19th Century American Women Writers Project
19th Century London Stage
Letters from a Victorian Governess/Companion to Royal families written during the period 1883-1894 from India/Prussia/Greece
Clara Collet website
The Elizabeth Robins website.
The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Contemporary Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelites From 1849-1900.
The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles
The Camelot Project. Contains transcriptions of medieval Arthurian legends, with poems by Matthew Arnold, William Morris, Swinburne and Tennyson on Arthurian themes.
Victoriana Library
A 19th Century Woman's Place...
The Swinburne Project. A searchable electronic edition of the works of Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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19th century American literature
American Women's Dime Novel Project. Dime Novels for Women 1870-1920.
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875. A searchable, comprehensive collection of American novels published between 1851-1875.
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Women's Studies
Women's Studies (MIT)
Voice of the Shuttle: Women's Studies, Gender Studies, and Queer Theory
A Celebration of Women Writers
The Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, 1650-1920. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Women's studies reference guide. From the British Library
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Societies
The 1890s Society
10th annual British Women Writers Conference. Madison, Wisconsin, April 19-21, 2002.
The Victorian Institute
The Victorian Society in America
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies
Northeast Victorian Studies Association Home Page. Includes a good collection of links to conference announcements.
The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
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Syllabi
Syllabi from The Victoria Research Web.
Syllabi from The Voice of the Shuttle
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Other
Some Recent Books:
Chapman, Alison, ed. Victorian Women Poets. Rochester, NY; Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2003.
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: a Study of her Life and Work. Hastings: Sensation Press, 2000.
Federico, Annette. The Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late Victorian Literary Culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000.
The Victorians: an Anthology of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Valentine Cunningham. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999.
A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Edited by Herbert Tucker. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999.
Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question. Edited by Nicola Diane Thompson. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Gilbert, Pamela. Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels.. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. Edited by Joseph Bristow. New York: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Nineteenth Century Literature from Pickering and Chatto.
Monuments and Dust: the Culture of Victorian Britain. (Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, University of Virginia) Includes a virtual reality 3-D tour of the Crystal Palace.
The Railway Children (PBS website).
Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (PBS website)
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard.
The Victorian Turkish Bath: its origins, development, and gradual decline.
History of Science Society Web Page
Some Victorian Art in London
Victorian Authorship
Beeton's Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book
Charles Booth's 1889 descriptive map of London poverty
Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics
A Victorian Dictionary.
Annotated Bibliography of Chartism. (Ursula Stange)
The Bawnboy Workhouse. "The best preserved Victorian workhouse in Ireland."
"She is More to be Pitied than Censured". Women, sexuality and murder in 19th Century America. An exhibit from the collections at Brown University.
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