Charles John Huffam Dickens, (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner.

(1820-1880) English novelist during the Victorian era that wrote books such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss

This painting is the last of a four-part series painted for Charles Jacoby. The notes will help familiarize you with the content of the work and the special zoom feature will give you a closer look at the painting technique.

An image of Thomas Hardy.

This site provides excerpts from John Ruskin's essays of J.M.W. Turner's paintings. There are several paintings and drawings at this site and some biographical information about Ruskin. The excerpts are reprinted from "The Works of Ruskin."

This is a game in which you read short bits of information about Dickens and his works as you try to get enough money for the coach ride to visit Mr. Dickens. Time can run out, and London in those days was not a fun place, as you will...

This site provides texts of 16 of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems. Also included is some basic biography information.

This site from Bibliomania provides the full text of Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist." A brief summary of the novel is also included. This is a good site to get the full text of his work.

This site from the official National Portrait Gallery of the United Kingdom is a resource to search the collection by typing in a subject's name or access the section on artists.

At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about the life and scientific work of Guglielmo Marconi. This man was recognized for his work in "the development of wireless telegraphy". He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in...

This site provides text from a lecture that looks at European culture after WWI. Looks at the literary and artistic developments during and as a result of the war. With links to several biographical websites on authors and philosophers...

The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. The program uses the record of history to reveal the way art, technology, and ideas have shaped us. Episode topics...