British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians London
From Wordsworth's Westminster Bridge to Blake's Chimney Sweepers; from Dickens's pickpockets to Jack the Ripper; and from Wells's War of the Worlds to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes; discover the diverse ways in which writers in this...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Crime
These articles research the following questions related to the Victorian Age: Why was crime such a popular subject in 19th-century fiction? How did literature balance fear, social commentary, and entertainment? How were gruesome murders...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Romanticism
What inspired the iconic poetry of the Romantic period, and how did the Romantic poets portray landscape, class, radicalism, and the sublime? Find out from this collection of articles.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Works of Matthew Arnold
This site from The Victorian Web includes a complete list of the works of Matthew Arnold, with links to related essays and sometimes to the texts themselves.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Victorian Diary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart comes from the Channel 4 website. Pictures and text are used to support understanding of life as a child during Victorian times.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: The Dreams in Wuthering Heights
A scholarly essay discussing the theme of dreams in Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights."
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: The Victorians
A look into life during the Victorian Era! Learn about the clothing, inventions, plants, and much more about life during this time period in England.
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: A Very Old Kitchen
Explore kitchen equipment from the Victorian period of late nineteenth century England.
Other
Victoria Research Web
Track the Victorian Age through this informative research site. This site contains several links to help bridge your knowledge of Victorian research. Don't miss out.
Britain Express
Britain Express: Queen Victoria and Victorian England the Young Queen
This describes Victoria's achievements in the early years of her reign. It discusses reforms, the first "World's Fair", the Crimean War, and the Indian Mutiny.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This site is on Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861 CE) the English poet, the wife of Robert Browning, the most respected and successful woman poet of the Victorian period, considered seriously for the laureateship that eventually was...
Utah Education Network
Uen: What Makes the Writer Write?
This lesson plan engages students in reading and research related to the Victorian Era. Students will analyze this time period's influence on the writings of Charles Dickens. Then students will analyze how today's authors incorporate...
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920's
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...
University of California
Ucla: Manas: British India
An overview of the British presence in India, 1600-1947, from university professor Vinay Lal. Includes links to related topics, such as the British East India Company, and to biographical details of many key figures from this period in...
Other
Passions in Poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins
This site provides a brief biography of Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins along with texts of many of his most famous poems.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature:romantics &Victorians Power and Politics
From the radicalism of the Romantic poets to the violent suppression of protests, the 18th and 19th centuries were peppered with incidents of political upheaval. Read how power and politics feature centrally in some of the period's great...
Other
A Complete Collection of Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
Alphabetical listing of the complete Robert Louis Stevenson poems.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pa: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
This University of Pennsylvania site reproduces the 1846 book here with some enhancements. Icons representing each of the 3 Bronte sisters identify who wrote which poem, and a provenance of the text explains where the information...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of Gm Hopkins
This site provides texts of 16 of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems. Also included is some basic biography information.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Gerard Manley Hopkins' Poetry
This is a fabulous site with many poems of Hopkins listed with live links to the full text of all of them. A must-see site.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library: Works of Oscar Wilde
The Digital Library provides links to 23 of Oscar Wilde's works.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page
The Digital Library provides links to the complete texts of 12 works by Lewis Carroll.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page
The Digital Library provides links to the complete texts for 47 works done by Robert Louis Stevenson!
Other
University of Bath: Ukoln: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
This site provides everything you want or need to know about Robert Louis Stevenson's book "Treasure Island." You can find out about the author, the characters in the book, tropical islands, pirates, buried treasures, and lots more. A...