There is an excellent online introduction to the Romantic and Victorian periods of British literature and culture prepared by the British Library. It contains a general introduction, along with many sub-sections on literary works, historical events, and cultural developments, all of them superbly illustreated.
Home page for Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians
Among the many electronic journals is Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net; it contains articles and reviews, as well as links to other Romantics sites, to other journals, and to descriptions of professional conferences in Romantics studies.
Home page for Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
An extraordinary online resource is Romantic Circles, which features subsections on research and pedagogy, alomng with a scholarly on-line journals and a growing collection of excellent electronic editions, including Stuart Curran's landmark electronic editon of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Home page for Romantic Circles
An excellent electronic research site is maintained at Cardiff Uinversity, which has been heavily involved in the recovery of women writers' lives and works. In addition to housing the unsurpassed bibliographical reference database, British Fiction, 1800–1829, this site is also the home for an important journal concerned with recovery and reassessmnent of Romantic-era literature, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840.
Home page for Regency History
A broader collection of resources on British Romantic literature, culture, and history can be found on Kathleen Harris's excellent website, which you will find at this link.
Finally, a good, extensive interdisciplinary source specifically for Romantic and Victorian fashion and culture (but with links to other sections on British culture from 1800 to the present):
Home Page for the Romanticism portion of Fashion-Era
Here is a link to an excellent, well illustrated website prepared by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) about British (and Continental) Romanticism and the Romantic school of art, with sub-sections on individual artists, works, themes, and reception. A great place to begin studying Romantic visual art.
And here is a link to another excellent site for the study of Romantic visual art. This one is arranged along national lines; it includes many great illustrations.
If you'd like to search and browse visual art in museums (large and small, famous and little-known), one good place to start is Artcycolpedia's worldwide directory of art museums. The home page leads you to continents, then nations, then smaller divisions (like individual states in the United States). There are active link sto many of the museums (and their collections) listed on this website.
Home page for Artcyclopedia.
The very best place to begin searching any aspect of Victorian culture and society is The Victorian Web
Kathy Johnson (UNL Libraries) has put together a wonderful finding list for book reviews of works published in the Romantic period and later in the 19th century. This bibliography comes complete with shelf locators for the volumes in the coillection at UNL's Love Library, and also with "hot" links to on-line and other electronic versions of these materials. To get to this list, click here.
My own site is minimal at present, but evolving. In addition to selected course materials, there are links there to various aspects of the Corvey Project, which involves the magnificent collection of Romantic literary texts the UNL Libraries have acquired and the library's outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British periodicals (go to the "Projects" heading).
Home Page: Stephen C. Behrendt
I also maintain a site that I call Studies in Romanticism at the University of Nebraska, which is the site for various projects, including those relating to the Corvey Collection at the University of Nebraska Libraries.
Here are a number
of other useful sites for information, research, and general browsing; most
of these contain links to additional sites.
Here is a link to a wonderful website on the history
of Britain during the age of George III (1760-1820).
Here is a link to a website called "The Peel Web," which covers Britain's history during Sir Robert Peel's major years, 1830-1850.
NASSR (North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism) home page
ICR (International Conference on Romanticism) home
page.
A new, fully electronic on-line edition of British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism, 1793-1815, ed Betty T. Bennett. A NEW edition, updated and expanded, with digital text by Orianne Smith. This is an absolutely indispensible resource. To access it, click here.
Jack Lynch's "Literary Resources" page for the Romantics
Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania) supplies this list of Romanticism resources
Tom Furniss (University of Stratchclyde) has a page of Romanticism links
Adriana Craciun's Women Romantic-Era Writers. This fine site includes links to websites and electronic texts of many individual writers.
British Women Romantic Poets project at University of California, Davis; home page
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 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.
The Blue Stocking Archive (esp. later 18th-century women writers and thinkers)
Gothic literature, which is usually said to have begun in 1764 with Horace Walpole's novel, The Castle of Otranto, remained enormously popular throughout the nineteenth century (and indeed into our own times). Wikipedia's entry on the subject is a surprisingly good place to start exploring. You can find it at this link.
Romantic Natural History: home page for interdisciplinary project to connect Romanticism and Natural History
Archive of Visual Images of London
Directory of virtual online libraries maintained by the Online Virtual Library. This resource includes all areas of inquiry, including literature and the arts, science, history, and much, much more.
The British Library, London: home page
The National Library of Ireland, Dublin: home page
The National Archives (including the Public Record Office), United Kingdom: home page
page last updated on 11 January, 2018