Useful Links

Literary / Cultural Sources

Margery Kempe

Text of The Book of Margery Kempe, ed. Lynn Staley (not our version) 

Staley's Introduction to Margery Kempe

Mapping Margery Kempe - an intro to her life and context

In-Class Presentation on Margery Kempe

Aphra Behn

In-Class Presentation on Aphra Behn

The Aphra Behn Page

The Incomparable Astraea (Aphra Behn)

Text of Oroonoko

Jane Austen

Pictures of Bath (starring my little brother)

The Terror of Northanger Abbey!

Excerpts from The Mysteries of Udolpho

Jane Austen Info Pages

Text of Northanger Abbey at Bibliomania.com

Charlotte Bronte

The Bronte Sisters Web - Includes an e-text of Jane Eyre

Haworth Parsonage

Play the Victorian Women's Rights Game!

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Materials from the V.W. Society of Great Britain - includes biographies and pictures

Michelle Cliff

Annotations to No Telephone to Heaven

Internet Tour of Jamaica

Miscellany

Nineteenth-Century Fashion

19c Fashions - Expanded Version (only viewable through MS Explorer - so sorry!)

 

Critical / Writerly Sources

Definitions of Othering

Writing Tips:  Organizing Your Paper

English Literature Indexes & Databases to Articles at lib.utexas

Literature Resource Center

LION  (literary texts and criticisms)

MLA  (definitive litcrit index)

ABELL  (second most definitive litcrit index)

Expanded Academic ASAP  (considerably less thorough, but offer online articles)

PCI Full Text Online  (reviews and periodicals from 1800s to present)

Project Gutenberg - free online texts of major works - thousands of them

University of Virginia's E-Book Library - downloadable .lit files for MSReader and Palm

Celebration of Women Writers - massive compendium of e-texts by women, from any place, any time - fabulous!

Victorian Women Writers Project - smaller project focusing just on 19c women writers