British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Politics and Religion
The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Johnson and Boswell
First section of a longer discussion on the Age of Johnson. Taken from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
An online copy in plain text format of Kipling's work, easy to search and to use with online text readers.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Mimi" by Arnold Bennett
Text of the short story "Mimi" by Arnold Bennett, a British author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Charles Dickens
Explore the life and work of Charles Dickens through this educational resource.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words
This is a great and informative site. This lesson uses Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Noyes's "The Highwayman" to teach vivid imagery and figurative language. Don't miss out.
Nagoya University (Japan)
Nagoya University: Victorian Ghost Stories: "The Body Snatcher"
This Nagoya University site provides the text to Robert Louis Stevenson's ghost story "The Body-Snatcher." Provides other interesting Victorian ghost stories at this site also.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net.: Animal Farm
This site features a complete project guide for George Orwell's book "Animal Farm."
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Bring Your Character in a Bag Animal Farm
The main objective is for students to be able to interpret a chosen character from the novel Animal Farm. Students will then have an opportunity to represent that character in original symbolic form and present it orally to the class.
BBC
Bbc History: Historic Figures: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 1822)
Biography of English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, including personal background and history as a writer.
BBC
Bbc History: Historic Figures: William Wordsworth (1170 1850)
Brief biography of English romantic poet William Wordsworth.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Dickens of a Party
Come to a party honoring Ebenezer Scrooge! This WebQuest is a complete "Party in a box," -- with a planning worksheet, specific tasks and roles, rubrics for evaluation and guidelines for presentation and party-going.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill
The text of "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill. He was a British-Jewish author who wrote about ghetto life in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "When Doctors Disagree" by p.g. Wodehouse
Read the full text of "When Doctors Disagree" by P.G. Wodehouse on this site.
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central: John Keats (1795 1821)
A collection of sonnets written by John Keats: "On the Sonnet," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "On the Grasshopper and Cricket," "On Sitting down to Read King Lear Once Again," and others.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The whole text of the famous novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, taken from the second edition, formatted for online reading.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope
The full text of An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope available in multiple formats.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson Plan: Monsters
Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, students create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
This is the complete text of the fairy tale novella The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
This is the complete text of the novel Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Dialstone Lane by w.w. Jacobs
This is the complete text of the novel Dialstone Lane by W.W. Jacobs
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Man" by Bram Stoker
This is the complete text of the novel "The Man" by Bram Stoker.
The English Teacher
The English Teacher: Beowulf Lesson Plans
These teaching notes for Beowulf provide a model for your own lesson plan and as a basic resource to study Beowulf. These notes can help you remember the pertinent points of Anglo-Saxon epic poem and help to deepen your understanding.
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