Wuthering Heights
The Reader’s Guide to Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Researching the characters, setting, and background history of a work of literature enhances interest and improves reading comprehension. An interactive website contains a wealth of resources related to Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering...
Luminarium
Luminarium: Sources for 17th Century English Literature
Contains a plethora of links to websites related to the 17th century. Literature, music, history, politics, and the role of woman are all covered by these links.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Histories
From the staging of disability to the influence of Machiavelli, explore the history plays of Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Internet Shakespeare Editions: Women Writers of the English Renaissance
A brief overview of women writers during the English Renaissance. Related links to different writers.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Carlyle on Sir Walter Scott
This site from Fordham University provides Thomas Carlyle's (1795-1881 CE) comments on Walter Scott (1771-1832 CE). This site includes biographical information.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953
The Nobel Foundation offers information about Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965 CE) who earned the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending...
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Eighteenth Century Chronology
Find out more about eighteenth-century literature through this comprehensive chronology. This site is set up to take you from 1660 through to 1800.
BBC
Bbc History: Historic Figures: William Wordsworth (1170 1850)
Brief biography of English romantic poet William Wordsworth.
University of Houston
University of Houston: English Romanticism
This webite on English Romanticism by Elizabeth Whitney focuses on the Romantic period including defining Romanticism, the history and politics, the Romantic poets, visual arts, and music. It also offers a link to the radio program "The...
Other
Beowulf in Cyberspace
Providing translations, maps, essays, and resources, this is a good online resource for students, particularly advanced students, reading and studying the Anglo Saxon poem, "Beowulf." The "Old English" glossary included at this website...
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Thomas Carlyle
This Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) portal gives access to biographical information about this Victorian social and polticial historian's life and work, such as his importan history of the French Revolution.
Emory University
Emory University: History of Drama
This Emory University resource provides information about the history of drama in the Neo-Classical time period.
Other
China Vista: Ancient Chinese Fables
Fables have enriched the Chinese language and the morals of these tales have found their way into the Chinese language. Six popular ancient Chinese fables are found here in Chinese and English.
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: 1800s Food
View a series of extracts from ninetheen-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this century of change. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the Victorian period,...
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: Medieval Food
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...
Other
Pro Spiritualism History of Arthur Conan Doyle's Beliefs
This site, provided by First Spiritual Temple, gives a good look into the spiritual beliefs (mediumship and the channeling of souls) of the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
W. W. Norton
Norton Anthology: Overview of Literary Gothicism
Do you know what type of literature "literary Gothicism" represents? Find out what types of literature throughout the ages have been touched by the Gothic influence when you visit this site.
BBC
Bbc History: Historic Figures: Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936)
Brief biography of Rudyard Kipling, English writer and Nobel Prize recipient.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Bernard Le Bouyer De Fontenelle
An English biographical essay focusing on Fontenelle's contribution to mathematics.
Other
Anglo Saxon Period: Characteristics of Poetry
This concise survey of Anglo-Saxon poetry is part of a larger site in English for Chinese university students.
TheatreHistory.com
Theatre history.com: Oliver Goldsmith
This is a biographical profile of the 18th century Irish-English poet and playwright, Oliver Goldsmith, whose poems such as "The Deserted Village" and plays such as "She Stoops to Conquer" are considered masterpieces.
Nagoya University (Japan)
Nagoya University: British Authors on the Web
An excellent and detailed site which lists over 750 British authors. The site provides links to more information about each author and is categorized by alphabet and time period. Some links may no longer work in the archived URL.