Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: On Marriage
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides the vv.8822-8244 of F.S. Ellis's English translation of the 13th-century novel On Marriage, or Le Roman de la rose (The Romance of the Rose). This is a great site to check out on the...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: R. D. Blackmore
This site features the author R. D. Blackmore including the full text of four novels including Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor and Mary Anerley.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: L. Adams Beck
This site features the author L. Adams Beck including the full text of the two novels: A Fire of Beauty and The Interpreter Romance of the East and six short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Herman Melville
This site features the author Herman Melville including a biography, the full text of four novels, and three short stories. The novels include Billy Budd, Moby Dick, Omoo, and Typee: A Romance of the South Sea.
University of Florida
King Arthur in Medieval Sources: A Partial Bibliography
This list of medieval Arthurian texts in translation includes anthologies, pre-12th century texts, 12th century texts and later romances, cyclical works, and films.
Jewelry Central
Jewelry Central: Sapphire
This commercial site contains information about the sapphire's physical properties and where it can be found. Also discusses the history and romance related to the stone and includes a description of its quality.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider Haggard
This is the full text of the novel Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider Haggard including a Dedication and an Introduction. It is a romance based on the Icelandic Sagas.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: An Egyptian Princess by Georg Ebers
This is the full text of the novel An Egyptian Princess by Georg Ebers, an Egyptian romance.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: A Face Illumined by Edward Payson Roe
This is the full text of the novel A Face Illumined by Edward Payson Roe, an unusual romance.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Fire of the Forge by Georg Ebers
This is the full text of the novel The Fire Of The Forge by Georg Ebers, a Romance of Old Nuremberg.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne
This is the full text of the novel The Golden Fleece by Julian Hawthorne, a combination romance, adventure, metaphysical and mystery from the Victorian era by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Vancouver Island University
Ironies of Happy Endings: Introduction to Twelfth Night
Text of a college lecture that introduces William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." It provides some background for the play, including information about Pastoral Romance, the characters Viola and Feste, the language of love, and the...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Kilmeny of the Orchard by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1910, one work is Kilmeny of the Orchard by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This romance involves a man who falls in love with a woman who is unable to speak.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Online Dating Scams Infographic
This infographic shows the signs of and gives tips to avoid a romance or online dating scam.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Secular Manuscripts
Not all manuscripts during the Middle Ages and Renaissance were religious in nature. This period abounded with volumes that contained histories, romances, fables, and legal and scientific writings. The rise of universities paralleled the...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Undaunted Courage
Students explore ideas prominent throughout westward expansion and American literature: myth versus reality. The texts present various perspectives of the West. Students consider the idealism and romance of the American spirit versus the...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Tragic End (Opera)
Nothing comes close to opera when it comes to affairs of the heart. Opera has always been addicted to love, and its romances can range from the hilarious to the dramatic. But don't expect a standard "Boy Meets Girl" story when you take...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: "Ivanhoe"
Full text of Sir Walter Scott's medieval romance and swaschbuckler Ivanhoe (1819)
W. W. Norton
Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages: Topics: King Arthur
This article "King Arthur: Romancing Politics: Overview" separates the historical facts of Arthur and his knights from the legends and literature that have rewritten history.
Other
Queen Anne Boleyn
This site gives details into the life of Anne Boleyn. Provides a biography, letters written by Anne, insight into the romance between her and Henry VIII, and more.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters: Breaking Barriers
Discover the brilliant Bronte sisters, who defied the limited options for women in 19th-century Britain to create some of the most iconic novels in English literature, in these three video excerpts from To Walk Invisible: The Bronte...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Read the original Middle English. Within the text is also a modern English prose translation.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents [Pdf]
This document is a guide to an Annenberg video, but it contains a wealth of information that is also useful independently. These thirty-four pages offer background information and activity suggestions relating to Gothic undercurrents in...
George Mason University
American Women's Dime Novel Project
A product of a post-graduate dissertation, this project examines the genre of women's dime novels from 1870-1934. Includes a searchable catalogue of popular dime novels and authors, with links to e-books where they can be purchased....
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