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W. W. Norton

Norton Anthology: Restoration/british Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The period between 1660 and 1785 was a time of amazing expansion, when Britain became an empire and its society and literature had to adapt to circumstances for which there was no precedent. The topics in this Restoration and Eighteenth...
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: 18th Century Resources Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this incredible site full of resources and links to the world of literature in 18th-century Britain. This site holds the key to learning more about the authors, works, and topics of this time period.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century People: Hanif Kureishi

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Hanif Kureishi's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century People: Beryl Gilroy

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Beryl Gilroy's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century People: j.g. Ballard

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of J.G. Ballard's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles and collection items.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Empire of the Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
"Empire of the Sun" is a semi-autobiographical novel by the British writer J.G. Ballard. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

For Students 4th - 9th
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
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British Library

British Library: Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles: Fatalism & Sexuality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will explore sources related to two key ideas in Thomas Hardy's work: that of people being unable to control their fate, and the imbalance between a man's place and a woman's place in society. Through their...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Preface to Sancho: An Act of Remembrance

For Students 9th - 10th
Paterson Joseph describes how his research into Black British history led him to write his first play, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance. In this one-man show, Paterson Joseph inhabits the life of Ignatius Sancho, the 18th-century composer,...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Childhood

For Students 9th - 10th
These articles research how childhood was depicted in the literature of the 18th and 19th century, and how perceptions of childhood were different from those of today.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Gender and Sex

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of articles that research how gender roles were defined in the 19th century, and how they were represented in the literature of the period.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians the Middle Class

For Students 9th - 10th
Throughout the course of the 19th century, the middle classes expanded rapidly. Those moving up the social scale had to learn new modes of behavior and ways of life. These articles research how this sector of society was reflected in the...
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British Library

British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: Medieval Food

For Students 9th - 10th
View a series of extracts from some of the oldest known cookbooks written in English. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the medieval English diet, including the differences in food eaten by peasants and by medieval elites at...
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
A Child's History Of England by Charles Dickens offers the opportunity to learn the history of England as told by one of the finest storytellers of English literature. The book begins with Roman Britannia and proceeds chronologically to...
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British Library

British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: 1900s Food

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
View a series of extracts from English cookbooks written during the first half of the twentieth-century and learn what people in England ate during this period. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the time,...
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Science Museum, London

Making the Modern World: War, Literature, and Technology

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a content-rich interactive site which guides you through the literature of war. Access the history of war literature to take you to a timeline, study authors' writings about war, learn about metaphorical language, and put into...
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century People: Rudyard Kipling

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of Rudyard Kipling's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century People: e.m. Forster

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a summary of E.M. Forster's impact on 20th Century literature and view additional resources such as related articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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Leaving Home: e.m. Forster and the Pursuit of Higher Values

For Students 9th - 10th
This in-depth, insightful article from "Western Buddist Review" examines the theme of leaving home as it relates to several of Forster's works (e.g., "The Road to Colonus," "The Machine Stops," and "Howards End.")
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad, Text and Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text of Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent."
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Top Girls

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Written by Caryl Churchill in 1982, "Top Girls" was one of the first plays to engage directly with Thatcherism. Read an overview of "Top Girls" and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and videos.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Angela Carter's Wise Children

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In these activities, students will focus on a wealth of drafting material and writer's notebooks to reveal how Angela Carter created her final comic novel, "Wise Children". They will closely examine fascinating source documents and...
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These activities offer students a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Works: Waiting for Godot

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.

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