University of Michigan
Making of America: Ballads of New England
This site from the University of Michigan provides access to online text for "Ballads of New England," an 1870 collection of Whittier's poetry. Poems can be viewed in plain-text format or as page-by-page images from the original work.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Eighteenth Century Chronology
Find out more about eighteenth-century literature through this comprehensive chronology. This site is set up to take you from 1660 through to 1800.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
University of Pennsylvania
Celebration of Women Writers: English Laws for Women
Electronic text of the 1854 document, "English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century" written by Caroline Norton. Part of a collection of works by women.
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: 1800s Food
View a series of extracts from ninetheen-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this century of change. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the Victorian period,...
Other
Bristol University: Toynbee's Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England
A series of lectures on the Industrial Revolution, written by one of the most famous economic historians of the nineteenth century.
National Archives (UK)
National Archives: Victorian Britain: Industrial Nation
Mining in England early in the Industrial Revolution was very dangerous. Source 4 presents clippings from Lord Ashley's report illustrating the conditions of working in mines and factories in the early-mid nineteenth century England....
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: A Very Old Kitchen
Explore kitchen equipment from the Victorian period of late nineteenth century England.
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Reform in Britain
How did Britain avoid a revolution amongst their own in England? Discover how several Parliamentary reforms played a role in a brewing revolution. This slideshow will enhance studying nineteenth century Britain.
BBC
Bbc History: British History: Empire: Symbiosis: Trade and the British Empire
Article examines the factors that drove forward the expansion of the British Empire during the nineteenth century and asks whether it was desire for trade or "thirst of conquest." Archived.
Other
The Industrial Revolution: Changes in Society
A guided website which covers the major aspects of the Industrial Revolution from about 1750 until 1830. Areas such as industry, agriculture are explored.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto Libraries: George Eliot by Leslie Stephen (1902)
The entire book written by Leslie Stephen on George Eliot. George Eliot was a female and was also known as Mary Ann Evans and Marian Evans. She was a nineteenth-century novelist from England.
British Library
British Library: Shakespeare in Quarto
The very first printed versions of Shakespeare's works are available here at the British Library for looking at, comparing and examining. Also includes valuable links about Shakespeare's plays as they have been performed through the years.
Curated OER
Engraving of Mary Wollestonecraft
Article discusses how Wollstonecraft contributed to the expansion of women's rights in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Curated OER
Bbc History: British History: Empire: Mary Wollstonecraft: The Dissenter
Article discusses how Wollstonecraft contributed to the expansion of women's rights in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Curated OER
Bbc History: British History: Empire: Mary Wollstonecraft: The Dissenter
Article discusses how Wollstonecraft contributed to the expansion of women's rights in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Curated OER
Bbc History: British History: Empire: Mary Wollstonecraft: The Dissenter
Article discusses how Wollstonecraft contributed to the expansion of women's rights in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.