How much do you know about Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais? Find out by answering this five-question multiple-choice and true/false quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.

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.

How much do you know about the Palace of Westminster? Find out by answering this four-question multiple-choice quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.

This is an extensive and rich collection of links to site about women in history, lesson plans and audio bites of professional historians analyzing historical materials. Includes teacher resources.

This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia gives some wonderful insight into Henrik Ibsen's (1828-1906 CE) controversial playwriting style. It discusses four of his plays and the controversy surrounding these. The article also gives some...

This Wikipedia site offers excellent information on the artform of the operetta, including its history, important contributors, and hyperlinked terms.

Overview of events surrounding the death of Queen Victoria.

This site provides links to the full texts of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads, which features such poems as "Gunga Din."

This site links to the full texts of Rudyard Kiplings Just So Stories (1902), which includes such classic parables as "How the Whale Got His Throat," "How the Camel Got His Hump," and the like.

A very good site from the UK. Gives in-depth analysis on the various relationships in the novel, all centering around the novel's main character.

This teacher's guide to Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is written to help students who are reading this book for class work.

This site, produced by "A Celebration of Women" from the University of Pennsylvania, provides the full text of Christina Rossetti's Nursery Rhyme Book with 120 illustrations.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The PowerPoint game provides a review of the life and works of Charles Dickens. Students will enjoy playing Connect 4 as they answer questions correctly.

Access images in the online database of the National Portait Gallery of Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. Database includes portraits of Prince Albert in all media and in single and group sittings, often with Victoria at his side.

Brief biography of Rudyard Kipling, English writer and Nobel Prize recipient.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This 8-slide PowerPoint gives a brief synopsis of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

What are the features of Charles Dickens' writing that make it so special? Iseult Gillespie investigates.

Text of the book "In Freedom's Cause" by G. A. Henty. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the book "It is Never Too Late to Mend" by Charles Reade. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the book "In Times of Peril" by G. A. Henty. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the book "In the Year of Jubilee" by George Gissing. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the book "In The Reign of Terror" by G. A. Henty. This is a novel set during the time leading up to the French Revolution. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Uncover 19th-century connections from Darwin to Jack the Ripper, play a Gothic genre word game, and examine how the novel has been depicted in illustrations, book covers and photographs. [PDF]

This guide will help students explore the lives and works of women writers using our Discovering Literature website.[PDF]