Some Internet Resources for Study

Lord Byron

The Life and Work of Lord Byron

A collection of resources assembled by Marilee Hanson, containing portraits and other images of Byron and his contemporaries, letters and reminiscences, selections from Byronb's poetry, prose, letters, and journals, opinions of Byron and his work by his contemporaries and successors, and a brief bibliography. The site also has an introductory essay, "Why read Lord Byron?"

Byron in Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

This site has links to images of Byron and his circle, texts of Byron's works,

The Byron page from The Poetry Archives, with links to texts of individual poems (mostly short poems)

Other links for you to explore:

Lord George Gordon Byron – Biography & Works. A good portal, with links to all aspects of Byron's life and works.
Byron Index Page (L. J. Webb). An unscholarly fan page, but with useful information on Byron's life and reputation.
George Gordon, Lord Byron (Jeffrey Hoeper). The full text of E. H. Coleridge's biography, with E-texts, facsimiles of Byron's handwriting, quotations, and a few links.
Don Juan, or Europe Unmasked "The site establishes Don Juan as the guiding spirit of a new educational tool for the exploration of European literature, art, religion and society in the 17th century." In French and English.
The Byron Society
The Byron Society's Journal
Centre for Byron Studies, University of Nottingham
Newstead Abbey, Byron's ancestral home
Link to Byron message board This is a film site, with information about Byron and his works in film.


Electronic texts
Freely available electronic texts from Project Gutenberg:

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1
The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Vol. 2
The biography of Byron by John Nichol
Manfred, Byron's great dramatic work

Felicia Hemans

The Hemans page from A Celebration of Women Writers. Contains a brief biography, a brief primary bibliography, and links to a number of electronic texts of works by Hemans.

A chronology of Hemans and her circle, prepared by Nanora Sweet, University of Missouri, St. Louis.

A very extensive bibliography of works by and relating to Felicia Hemans, including both contemporary responses to her work and scholarly publications up through Spring 2000. This bibliography, which is an essential starting-place for research on Hemans, was prepared by Nanora Sweet, University of Missouri, St. Louis..

"Editing Felicia Hemans for the Twenty-first Century," by Susan J. Wolfson (Princeton University). A fine introduction to the publication and reception history of Hemans' poetry. At Romanticism on the Net.

Electronic texts
Freely available electronic texts from the British Women Romantic Poets project at the University of California, Davis

Poems. (1808). A complete electronic text.
England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism. (1808). A complete electronic text
The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems (1812). A complete electronic text

Additional Resources for Felicia Hemans and other women poets of the Romantic period

Women Romantic-Era Writers.  An excellent collection of links to electronic texts, annuals, anthologies, and gift books, contemporary responses, and other web resources for women writers of the Romantic period, maintained by Adriana Craciun, University of Nottingham.

Works by Women and Anonymous Writers from 1770-1830 in the Rare Book Collection of Van Pelt Library, U. Pennsylvania. An extensive bibliography compiled in 1990 by Judith Pascoe, University of Iowa.

British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832: An Electronic Collection of Texts from the Shields Library, U. California, Davis. An extensive and expanding collection of very high quality lectronic-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written [not necessarily published] between 1789 [the onset of the French Revolution] and 1832 [the passage of the First Reform Act]). General Editor, Nancy Kushigian, UC Davis.

Some General Resources on British Romantic Culture

The Romantic Chronology. This is an excellent hypertext chronology of literary, social, and historical events in Britain and France from 1785-1851; it includes links to online resources for authors, works, and topics. The site is the collaborative project of Laura Mandell (Miami University of Ohio), and Alan Liu, Rita Raley, Carl Stahmer, Vince Willoughby, all of the Univiersity of California, Santa Barbara.

The Literary Link: Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century. Links to web resources for English Romanticism, Painting and poetry of the Romantics, English Romantic Authors and their works, Nineteenth-century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Prose. Maintained by Janice Patten, San Jose State University.

Literary Resources: Romantic.  A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English Romantic literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and limited to collections of information useful to academics, maintained by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.

Romantic Links, Electronic Texts and Home Pages. This is just what it says it is; the site, maintained by Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania), includes some very interesting and useful links, including links to home pages of scholars and teachers of Romanticism worldwide (where you can compare your courses with those offered by these people!!!)

The Georgian Index. Here is a very interesting and extensive index to a broad array of on-line resources about London and British life in the first quarter or so of the nineteenth century. You can get information about everything from homes and public buildings to the rituals of tea-time and "bare-knockle boxing." This site, which is maintained in Britain, is a fabulous place for browsing. It also has information about street addresses in London during the period, and about London businesses of the time. There are also links to maps of the period.

Greenwood's Mapr of London (1827) This link will take you to a very detailed map of London as it was in 1827. The map is divided into sections for you to select, and each of these can be magnified. This is an excellent and very useful guide to what was where, since the map has both "place names" and street names.

A Regency Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashion, Personalities, Inventions, Learnming, the Domestic Arts, and Matters Lilitary and Political. This is an excellent site (I've just found it) that has 452 links to other sites on all aspects of British (and European) life and culutre in the first third of the nineteenth century.

The Regency Garderobe. Another excellent collection of views of Regency-era fashions from Great Britain and the Continent. Lots of pictures!

Regency Fashion. Early Nineteenth Century Regency Fashion page. This is part of a large pictorial history of clothing and dress from ancient times to the present. You can navigate from this page or go to the bottom of the individual pages and click on "Text Index (faster)."

The Regency Town House. Regency Cultural History. There are two different definitions of the term Regency, one political and the other stylistic. This site has links to both people and "things," from houses to clothing and other artifacts. It's mainatined in Britian and is being expanded even as you read this. A good site to browse..

The Royal Pavilion, Brighton. This is the official site for the present-day Royal Pavilion in Brighton, the Prince Regent's extravagant "place by the sea." You really need to check this out, to get a sense of the life and times (and tastes) of the Prince of Wales, the eldest son of George III who ruled as Prince Regent during his father's final illness and who succeeded him as George IV.

The following websites have excellent materials on the cultural history (including clothing and social practices) of Regency England. As of mid January 2005, however, they appear to be unavailable. The links are nevertheless well worth trying from time to time, just in case they come back on line.

English Culture, 1660-1830. A collection of links relating to business, clubs, societies, periodicals customs, games, new plants, foods, and people of the period, maintained by Cathy Decker.

Regency Fashion Page. A view of culture c. 1790-1829 from the perspective of women's and men's clothing styles; extensive information, engravings, portraits, links, that also includes historical and cultural context on the Regency Style Year-By-Year (1790-1829) page. The site is maintained by Catherine Decker.

The Regency Portrait Page. In cludes portraits of various public figures, including writers and royalty, from 1790 through the 1820s. Site maintained by Cathy Decker.

this page last updated on 12 January, 2005