British Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Probably the best electronic source for resources related to women writers
of the Romantic period is the award-winning website maintained at the University
of Nottingham by Prof. Adriana Craciun. This is a very extensive website,
with links to many writers and texts. This website is definitely
worth very close examination, as it is likely to save you a great deal of time
and trouble.
Here you will find links for
An especially important on-line initiative is the British Women Romantic Poets textbase being developed at the University of California, Davis. Here you will find texts of many Romantic-period British women poets mounted in both HTML and SGML formats.
British Women Romantic Poets Project, 1789-1832 (University of California-Davis)
The very best place to begin with all aspects of English studies - and of the Humanities generally - is with Prof. Alan Liu's monumental project, "The Voice of the Shuttle," which features an astonishing number of links to other sites, not just in Romanticism but throughout literary study - and also in other disciplines. You'll find materials for courses offered at other institutions, as well as a remarkable array of reference materials, from encyclopedias to map-making utilities and telephone directories. Have a look - you won't be disappointed.
Main home
page for "The Voice of the Shuttle"
The
English Studies page
The English Victorian Period page
Another fascinating website is the Romanticism Chronology, coordinated on Liu's site by Prof. Laura Mandell of Ohio University. Here you can select any year within the Romantic period and follow a variety of links to historical, social, political and other events, as well as to works of art in all the media. It is a rich and thoroughly fascinating resource. Home page for The Romanticism Chronology
Home page for Romanticism on the Net
A very important electronic site for the study of Romanticism -- especially the later Romantics -- is Romantic Circles, which contains links to electronic texts, journals, bibliographies, and discussion lists. This is an exteremely well done and valuable site.
Home page for Romantic Circles
You will find an interesting and often useful set of links to help you with the study of Romantic writing generally, and with individual authors in particular, at
The very best place to begin searching any aspect of Victorian culture and society is The Victorian Web, which has extensive links to literary, cultural, and historical materials.
For Victorian-era women writers, the Victorian Women Writers Project, located at Indiana Univesity, is an excellent place to start.
Home Page: Stephen C. Behrendt
I also maintain a site devoted to Studies in Romanticism at the University of Nebraska. The site includes links to several ongoing projects that are housed at the University of Nebraska :
The Corvey Novels Project is an evolving collection of plot synopses and other scholarly apparatus (including contemporary reviews) for Romantic-era novels, most of which are contained in the "Corvey Collection." Most of these are by women authors.
The Corvey Poets Project is an evolving collection of scholarly materials on volumes of poetry published by both women and men and drawn from the "Corvey Collection." The entries contain descriptive and critical essays on the poetry and author, as well as contemporary reviews and biographical information.
Here is a list of volumes of poetry by women contained in the Corvey Collection.
Here is a list of volumes of poetry by men contained in the Corvey Collection.
There is also a link to a small collection of electronic texts that have been prepared by students at Nebraska.
Here are links to a number
of other useful sites for information, research, and general browsing; most
of these contain links to additional sites.
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) home page
ACR (American Conference on Romanticism) home
page
Jack Lynch's "Literary Resources" page for the Romantics
Home page for British Women Playwrights, c. 1800
Chawton House Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing (1600-1830), located on the family estate of Jane Austen, now being restored as a research center
British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception is an extraordinary bibliographical tool produced by Cardiff University’s Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research. This website allows users to examine bibliographical records of 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors, along with a large number of contemporary materials (including anecdotal records, circulating-library catalogues, newspaper advertisements, reviews, and subscription lists).
The Blue Stocking Archive (esp. later 18th-century women writers and thinkers)
The Poetess Archive is a site created by Laura Mandell and devoted to later Romantic women poets, who were often dubbed "poetesses" (for a variety of reasons). The site includes links to individual authors and to various literary anthologies, annuals, and miscellanies.
A major website and launch pad for everything relating to the Gothic: The Literary Gothic
Directory of the Virtual Library: Humanities Area(s)
Directory of World Library Servers
The British Library, London: home page
The National Library of Ireland, Dublin: home page
The National Archives (formerly the Public Records Office), United Kingdom: home page
EARL: Genealogical Resources for United Kingdom and Ireland
Page updated on 08/11/2007