Literature and Books
Romantic Circles: a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture
Refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture, including digital editions of Romantic-era texts.
Broadside Ballads Online
Maintained by the Bodleian Libraries and features the Bodleian's digital collections of ballads, with links to the English Broadside Ballad Archive’s digital presentations of pre-1800 ballads from other libraries.
The British Book trade Index
index of the names and brief biographical details and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and who were trading by 1851.
Scottish Book Trade Index
The Scottish Book Trade Index lists the names, trades and addresses of people involved in printing in Scotland up to 1850.
FBTEE: The French Book Trade in Englightenment Europe
Uses database technology to map the trade of Societe Typographique de Neuchatel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794.
Dissenting Academies Online
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Dissenting academies arose in Great Britain after 1662, and were intended to provide Protestant students dissenting from the Church of England with a higher education similar to that at Oxford and Cambridge, from which they were largely excluded. Built around 3 databases that document dissenting academies, this project documents social, biographical, and intellectual activity between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Digital Miscellanies Index
Miscellanies, popular printed collections of poetry and songs, reflect fashions, popular taste and the literary market, rather than the state of high literature. They were the form in which many ordinary people would have read poetry in the eighteenth century, and offer insights into readers and consumers of the past. the Digital Miscellanies Index will enable researchers to know, with greater precision and scope than ever before, who was reading what, when and how.
William Godwin’s Diary: Reconstructing a Social and Political Culture 1788-1836
Through this digital edition of William Godwin's diary, with entries spanning 1788 to 1863, one can trace the developing relationships of one of the most important families in British literature, Godwin’s own, which included his wife Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), their daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) and his son-in-law Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Many of the most important figures in British cultural history feature in its pages, including Anna Barbauld, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles James Fox, William Hazlitt, Thomas Holcroft, Elizabeth Inchbald, Charles and Mary Lamb, Mary Robinson, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Wordsworth, and many others.
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Project focusing on the network of knowledge as reflected in letters from 1500-1800, when letter-writing was the primary means by which knowledge was communicated. The project makes possible the mapping and visualization of the geographic data, personal connections, historical events, and social data.
Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts
Gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand. Through digital reunification, it is now possible to access, read, and compare high quality images of original manuscripts whose material forms are scattered around the world in libraries and private collections. Unlike the famous printed novels, all published in a short span between 1811 and 1818, these manuscripts trace Jane Austen’s development as a writer from childhood to the year of her death; that is, from 1787 (aged 11 or 12) to 1817 (aged 41). Not only do they provide a unique visual record of her imagination from her teenage experiments to her last unfinished writings, these pages represent one of the earliest collections of creative writings in the author’s hand to survive for a British novelist.
The Newton Project
Online edition of all Sir Isaac Newton’s writings