Literary Companion

Jane Austen Links

Links to literature mentioned in
Jane Austen's novels and film adaptations.

• Calendars behind Jane Austen's novels
• Criticism and biographies of Jane Austen
• Jane Austen: The Movie
• Jane Austen E-texts, etc.
  This site includes online books about Jane Austen
• Ms. Austen & Co.
  Litrix reading room includes e-texts of all JA's novels and other 19th century works by Hardy, the Brontës, etc.
• Yahoo's list of
  Jane Austen links on the web
• Exerpt (Ch. 1) of
  Jane Austen: A Life
  by Claire Tomalin
• How Jane Austen's characters talk
• Jane Austen sequels page
  Includes reviews and is indexed by novel

Sense & Sensibility

Emma

Mansfield Park

Northanger Abbey

Specific Plays
Henry V	Much Ado About Nothing	Midsummer Night's Dream Annotated hypertext version
King Lear King Lear & A Thousand Acres A comparison of the two stories
Hamlet Hamlet Navigator A hypertext study guide to Hamlet including scene summaries, character reviews, text search. Titles from Hamlet Books which have taken their titles from this play and where the title is taken from.
Notes on The Tempest

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare
  Takes a long time to load, but has a complete recounting in prose of all Shakespeare's works.
• Shakespeare Spin-offs
  A bibliography of film adaptations, plays, poems, songs, novels and operas based on Shakespeare plays
• Shakespeare search engine
• Monarch Notes
  Notes and keys to understanding all of Shakespeare's works.
• Shakespeare Site Map
  Includes study guides, criticism on the plays, biographical information, discussion of "the authorship question" and more!
• Shakespeare resource center
  Another comprehensive site
• Shakesperience
  This site includes a forum to discuss plays
  and information and discussion about specific plays.
• The Elizabethan Review
  Journal of the English Renaissance
• The Shakespeare Classroom

Historical & Geographical
Information

• Jane Austen Scrapbook
• Literary Locales
  Links to many sites with pictures of important locations in literary history, including three links for Jane Austen.
• Romantic Chronolgy
• English History 1660-1800
• English Culture 1660-1800
• Regency time line

The Brontës

Literary Postcards

Jane Austen Film Cards

Just So Literary Postcards

Shakespeare sonnet greeting cards

Mystery stories

• The Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page
  Information and links for the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White
• The Wilkie Collins E-text page
• Sherlock Holmes
• Agatha Christie
• Kathleen Taylor
  Tory Bauer Mysteries

George Eliot

• E-text of Middlemarch
• Online journal of George Eliot studies
  plus related links
• Links for understanding Middlemarch
• The Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
  
• George Eliot's novels online (searchable)
  
• Silas Marner
  

Links related to
Edith Wharton

• Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places
• Books by Edith Wharton
  
• An Edith Wharton home page
• Kali's Edith Wharton discussion page

• Our Mutual Friend study page
  Includes a link to online text, searchable and downloadable texts, and study questions.
• The Importance of Being Earnest
  by Oscar Wilde
• Tom Jones
  by Henry Fielding

• Evelina
  by Fanny Burney
• Sensibility and the Gendering of Georgian Artistic Production
  Interesting paper which discusses gender roles during JA's time, including the idea that women could produce art, but only men were considered to be artists at that time, and that Lydia's indiscretions were seen as worse than Wickham's because she was female.
• The English Novel
  Links to information pages for many authors including Jane Austen, Henry Fielding, Fanny Burney the Brontës, Thomas Hardy and more.
• 18th Century E-Texts
  Many complete works, listed alphabetically
  by author
• 19th Century British and Irish Authors
  Slow-loading but very comprehensive site.
• The Lord Byron Home Page
  Includes chronology, bibiliography, poems and chat. Will soon have complete poetical works of Byron.
• The Thomas Hardy Page
  Includes bibliographical information and links to e-texts of his works.
• The 18th Century British Novel
  University course page with links to websites, papers and discussions on Pamela, Tom Jones, Evelina and others
• Commentary on Samuel Richardson's Pamela
• Restoration and 18th C Literature Index
  

The Romantics

• Romanticism
• Romantic Poetry
  Links to individual pages for English, French and German romantics.
• Romantics Unbound
• Romantic Period Literature resources
• How to Be a Romantic Poet
  A wannabe's guide to the literary life
• Sonnet Central
  An archive of English sonnets, commentary and pictures, including sonnets from the Romantic and Elizabethan eras, and more.
• VoS English Literature: The Romantics
  Links to many sites about Jane Austen's contemporaries and authors she admired.
• The Romantic Period
  From the Western Canon website Links for many authors and poets from this era, including Jane Austen, The Brontës, Thomas Hardy, Henry James.
• Women Writers of the Romantic Period
  This site is devoted to many of Jane Austen's lesser-known contemporaries, including Fanny Burney and Ann Radcliffe, with biographical information and links to exerpts from their work.
• The Romantic Movement
  Search by author of Romantic Movement from 1760-1830
• The Romantic Movement in English Literature
• Dictionary of Sensibility

The Reference Shelf

Pemberley's Recommended Reading Page Literary mailing lists (gopher menu) The Oxford Book of English Verse The online Books Page--title search The Internet Sleuth Online e-texts with a variety of ways to search by title, author, and text searches of particular authors WebSonar Search library of classic literature, video transcripts, the complete works of Shakespeare and more The quote appears highlighted in the context of longer quote. You can set the search for gaps of up to 100 words. Very useful site! Logos collection of electronic books English Literature--Note: to search a particular author, the work will be listed in alphabetical order of his or her first name. Project Gutenberg e-text listings

Bibliomania text search page This page allows you to search any book listed with Bibliomania for particular words or phrases. Bibliomania This online library has references, fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Malaspina Great Books Book Room Search authors, titles, biographies, and ordering information at this well-organized site. Biographical dictionary--search your favourite authors! Barlett's Familiar Quotations