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  • African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
    African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg collection, this site provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.
  • Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
    Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.
  • Celebration of Women Writers
    The Celebration of Women Writers links to a wide variety of on-line resources, most of them at other sites. Sites for writers groups include biographical pages for members as well as useful resources and contacts.
  • The Oxford Text Archive
    The OTA works closely with members of the arts and humanities academic community to collect, catalog, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages.
  • Project Gutenberg
    Full text of classic works published before 1923.
  • Romantic Circles
    A web site devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. It is the collaborative product of a community of editors, contributors, and users around the world, published by the University of Maryland.
  • Romanticism on the Net
    An international refereed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies.

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