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Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Literary Resources: Victorian British
Have you ever wanted to know more about British Victorian literature? Check out this informative site highlighting literary resources from the British Victorian Age. As Professor Jack Lynch, who created the list, has noted, these pages...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Politics and Religion
The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Johnson and Boswell
First section of a longer discussion on the Age of Johnson. Taken from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: The War of the Worlds
In this learning module, students will engage in a deep study of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Worksheets, tests, and map projects are provided to reinforce comprehension of The War of the Worlds. This module is designed to support...
BBC
Bbc History: Historic Figures: George Orwell (1903 50)
Biography of British journalist and author George Orwell, including personal background and history as a writer.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: George Eliot Middlemarch
At this website, read the full text of George Eliot's novel, "Middlemarch." Included is a brief paragraph intoducing the book, its context, and its plot.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Last Poems by a.e. Housman
This is the full text of Last Poems by the English poet A. E. Housman.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
An online copy in plain text format of Kipling's work, easy to search and to use with online text readers.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Resource provides multiple formats of the full text of Kipling's novel The Jungle Book.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Derek (Alton) Walcott
This Calendar of Authors' Literature webpage has biographical sketch about of this West Indian poet and playwright who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. Walcott's works often deal with the conflict between his Caribbean...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Mimi" by Arnold Bennett
Text of the short story "Mimi" by Arnold Bennett, a British author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Charles Dickens
Explore the life and work of Charles Dickens through this educational resource.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words
This is a great and informative site. This lesson uses Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Noyes's "The Highwayman" to teach vivid imagery and figurative language. Don't miss out.
Nagoya University (Japan)
Nagoya University: Victorian Ghost Stories: "The Body Snatcher"
This Nagoya University site provides the text to Robert Louis Stevenson's ghost story "The Body-Snatcher." Provides other interesting Victorian ghost stories at this site also.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Jane Austen
Check out this site featuring links to lesson plans, activities and more for "Pride and Prejudice." You will also find links that explore the life of Jane Austen.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Bring Your Character in a Bag Animal Farm
The main objective is for students to be able to interpret a chosen character from the novel Animal Farm. Students will then have an opportunity to represent that character in original symbolic form and present it orally to the class.
BBC
Bbc History: Historic Figures: Samuel Johnson (1709 84)
Brief biography of English writer and critic Samuel Johnson, including personal background, career information and important works.
BBC
Bbc History: Historic Figures: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 1822)
Biography of English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, including personal background and history as a writer.
BBC
Bbc History: Historic Figures: William Wordsworth (1170 1850)
Brief biography of English romantic poet William Wordsworth.
Universal Teacher
Moore's Teacher Resources: A Christmas Carol
This teacher's guide to Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is written to help students who are reading this book for class work.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Dickens of a Party
Come to a party honoring Ebenezer Scrooge! This WebQuest is a complete "Party in a box," -- with a planning worksheet, specific tasks and roles, rubrics for evaluation and guidelines for presentation and party-going.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill
The text of "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill. He was a British-Jewish author who wrote about ghetto life in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "When Doctors Disagree" by p.g. Wodehouse
Read the full text of "When Doctors Disagree" by P.G. Wodehouse on this site.
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