British Library
British Library: People: Charlotte Bronte
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Charlotte Bronte. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: People: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: People: h.g. Wells
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of H.G.Wells. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: People: Anthony Trollope
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Anthony Trollope. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: People: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: People: Robert Louis Stevenson
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Robert Louis Stevenson. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: People: Thomas Hardy
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Thomas Hardy. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: People: Elizabeth Gaskell
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Elizabeth Gaskell. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: People: George Eliot
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of George Eliot. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: People: Arthur Conan Doyle
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Arthur Conan Doyle. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Alice Liddell
This site provides a photograph of the real-life Alice in "Alice in Wonderland."
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Works of Thomas Hardy
The Victorian Web provides the online text to some of Thomas Hardy's short stories and poems. Links are provided throughout for additional information on related subjects.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Jane Eyre: Reading Guide [Pdf]
This resource offers a critical introduction to the work, biographical information about Charlotte Bronte and discussion questions about the work. [PDF]
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" by Charles Dickens
In "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" passengers that were saved from a shipwreck are stranded at sea in lifeboats. Read the full text on this site.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Read the full text of "The Woodlanders", a novel of betrayal and moral compromise, by Thomas Hardy.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Read the full text of the classic "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Reading Guide
Learn the background of both the book and the author, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; then click on the Readers Guide link to use the detailed study questions to spark discussion.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto Libraries: Matthew Arnold (1822 1888)
Biographical note on Matthew Arnold, the Victorian poet and critic.
Other
The Oscar Wilde Collection
Full-text collection of the works of Oscar Wilde. Easy to read and find, but there is no commentary offered.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Read the full text of all three volumes of "The French Revolution" by Thomas Carlyle. This extensive work covers the revolution from 1789-1795.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Read the full text of "The Warden" which is the first book in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Read the full text of the semi-autobiographical novel "The Way of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler. Follow four generations of the Pontifex family struggle with strained relationships, especially between Ernest Pontifex and his father.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Well Beloved by Thomas Hardy
Read the full text of "The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of Temperament" by Thomas Hardy. The novel tells the story of a sculptor's search for the ideal woman.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Town Traveller by George Gissing
Read the full text of "The Town Traveller" by George Gissing on this site.