English & Literature

Comprises all 18th century Entertainment ephemera in the John Johnson Collection - Paybills, handbills, newscuttings and prints from the Theatre; London Play Places; Animals on Show; Circuses; Concerts; Dioramas; etc.

An ongoing digital collection of primary sources related to all aspects of American life and history, including literature, culture, performing arts and music. Hosted and maintained by the library of congress.

An online repository of facsimiles, metadata, and criticism. From University of Virginia.

This site was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web.

an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

To create a digital resource reuniting all the known holograph surviving manuscripts of Austen’s fiction in an unprecedented virtual collection.

This collection begins with some of the earliest texts about America written by British discoverers that set the foundation for American letters and traces the development of southern literature through to the beginning of the twentieth century.

A digital library of primary sources in American history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in education, psychology, history, sociology, religion, & science, but does include some literature.

Mark Twain Project Online offers unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents.

With magazines at its core, the MJP also offers a range of genres that extends to the digital publication of books directly connected to modernist periodicals and other supporting materials for periodical study.

Collection history, related resources and images from a variety of NYPL digitized collections.

A scholarly site bringing together a growing number of digital projects relating to nineteenth century literature. Links primary and secondary sources.

An ever-growing online collection of primary source materials from all over the world that pertain primarily to the arts & humanities. Hosted and maintained by Tufts University.

A digital edition of the Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Centenary Edition, edited and with notes by Edward Waldo Emerson.

When completed, the Archive will provide access to all of Dante's pictorial and textual works and to a large corpus of materials.

A hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the Carolina Digital Library and Archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Thomas B. Harned collection of the Walt Whitman papers spans the period 1842 to 1937, with most of the items dated from 1855 to 1892.

a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors.