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19th Century UK Periodicals
Full runs of nearly 600 titles, from the period 1800 to 1900. Some titles exist only in a single copy; such is the fragile state of much nineteenth-century printed material. The collection contains over six million... Connect
British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1120-1900
Consists of two collections: British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900, which provides an intimate look into the lives and works of Britain’s major writers across two hundred years; the Medieval and... Connect
British Periodicals
Hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century... Connect
Early English Books Online
Images of over 132,000 English-language works printed from 1473-1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and elsewhere.Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains images of virtually every work printed in England,... Connect
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a vast eighteenth-century library at your desktop—a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800.... Connect
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003
Represents more than 150 years of social, political and cultural history in the form of the world's first illustrated newspaper! From war and disasters to politics and the arts, it provides a vivid view of the people,... Connect
Literature Resource Center
Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary... Connect
Proquest Literature and Language
Searches all the literature and languages databases on the Proquest platform including the following:American PeriodicalsBritish Humanities Index (BHI)British PeriodicalsCBCA: Reference & Current Events: Literature... Connect
Romanticism, Life, Literature & Landscape
The access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.... Connect
Victorian Popular Culture
Source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain, and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930. Spiritualism, Sensation, and Magic explores the relationship between the popularity of Victorian magic... Connect
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