ABELL Plus[Full Record] Information about books, book reviews, articles, essays and
dissertations on all aspects and periods of English
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Aemilia Lanyer, 1569-1645[Full Record] Web site devoted to the author. Includes author’s works,
biographical information, bibliography of primary and
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America: History and Life[Full Record] Information on articles, books, book reviews, and
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American Authors on the Web / Mitsuharu Matsuoka[Full Record] Web site devoted to American literature. Includes links to
author Web sites, primary texts, projects, teaching
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Archive of Early American Images[Full Record] Digitized images relating to the Americas which appeared in
books printed in Europe before 1825, many reproduced here
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Brown Library, Brown University.
Art Abstracts[Full Record] Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for
international art publications, including periodicals,
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Artcyclopedia / John Malyon[Full Record] Searchable database of information on art and artists with
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women artists from the Renaissance to the present.
ARTFL Project[Full Record] A corpus of texts ranging from classic works of French
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As One Phoenix[Full Record] Collection of selected poems by four 17th century poets,
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle; Aemilia Lanyer;
Katherine Philips; and Lady Mary Wroth. Also includes
biographical information and bibliographies of editions and
critical studies of these authors.
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals[Full Record] Information about articles on architecture, archaeology,
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bbc.co.uk History[Full Record] Provides short encyclopedic entries for historical topics
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Bibliography of the History of Art[Full Record] Information about articles on European and American art
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British Book Trade Index[Full Record] Database of brief biographical and trade
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ink-makers and sellers of medicines.
British Library Manuscripts Catalogue[Full Record] A single portal for access to the mainstream catalogues of
the British Library Department of Manuscripts, covering
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Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes[Full Record] Full text electronic version of the 1907-21 edition of the
encyclopedia. Essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction,
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The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators,
humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders,
economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even
non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
cesar: calendrier electronique des spectacles sous l'ancien regime[Full Record] CESAR provides details of the plays, people and performance spaces in France during the 17th and 18th
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Cotsen Children's Library[Full Record] A major historical collection of rare illustrated children's
books, manuscripts, original artwork, prints, and
educational toys from the 15th century to the present day in
over thirty languages.
Discovering American Women\'s History Online[Full Record] This database provides access to digital collections of
primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.)
that document the history of women in the United States.
Documenting the American South[Full Record] A collection of primary source material on Southern history,
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Early Modern Literary Studies[Full Record] Electronic journal devoted to the study of English
literature, literary culture, and language during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also includes pages of
links to electronic texts and other Web resources.
Early Modern Women's Poetry / Ellen Moody, ed.[Full Record] Scholarly essays and bibliographies on the following authors
Veronica Gambara, Vittoria Colonna, Anne Kingsmill Finch,
Countess of Winchilsea, Anne Cecil de Vere, Countess of
Oxford, Katherine Fowler Philips and Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu.
Emory Women Writers Resource Project[Full Record] Collection of poetry, prose and drama by women writing in
English from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Includes
edited as well as unedited texts.
English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800[Full Record] Searchable, online archive of ballads from the Samuel
Pepys collection held by Cambridge University. Includes
facsimile images of the ballads along with transcriptions
and backgropund essays.
English Emblem Book Project[Full Record] Images of scanned pages of emblem books printed in Early
Modern England. Includes a chronology, bibliography, and
links to other emblem book Web sites.
English Folk Dance and Song Society (efdss)[Full Record] The English Folk Dance and Song Society serves to preserve
and promote traditional English folk dance, song and music
by providing national and local outreach services which
enable and increase access to all.
English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)[Full Record] Organized by major authors of the period, includes
biographical information, critical essays, and links to
authors� works. Also includes information about the
metaphysical and cavalier poets.
English Short Title Catalog[Full Record] Catalog of most imprints (books, pamphlets, and broadsides)
published from 1473 to 1800 in English or published in any
language in English-speaking countries. Many titles are
available on microform.
Genders[Full Record] Publishes articles that "consider genders and sexualities in
relation to artistic, semiotic, political, literary, social,
ethnic, racial, economic, rhetorical or legal concerns."
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Historical Abstracts[Full Record] Information on articles, books, and dissertations published
since 1954 about non-U.S. and non-Canadian history from 1450
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine[Full Record] International bibliography for the history of science,
technology, and medicine and their influence on culture,
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articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews,
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Hockliffe Project[Full Record] When complete, this project will include digitized images
of the entire Hockliffe Collection of children's books
owned by the De Montfort University. The books in the
collection, which number over 1,000, range in date from
1685 to the mid-twentieth century, with the majority
printed between 1760 and 1840.
Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipies, & Helpful Hints[Full Record] Exhibit exploring the cabinet contents of the 16th,
17th, and 18th century housewife, including her medicines,
perfumes, cosmetics, cleaning solutions, pest controls, and
preserving hints, as recorded in books and
manuscripts.
International Margaret Cavendish Society[Full Record] Society devoted to the study of Margaret Cavendish. Includes
a bibliography of primary and secondary sources, information
on past conferences, and links to related materials.
Intute: Arts & Humanities[Full Record] Arts and humanities Web gateway. Subdivided by discipline.
Links to author Web sites, texts and projects, teaching
resources, electronic journals, and other related
material.
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music[Full Record] The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (JSCM) is
published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music to
provide a refereed forum for scholarly studies of the
musical cultures of the seventeenth century. These include
historical and archival studies, performance practice,
music theory, aesthetics, dance and theater. The JSCM also
publishes critical reviews and summary listings of
recently published books, scores, recordings, and
electronic media.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive[Full Record] Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities,
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Lady Mary Wroth / Nandini Das, ed.[Full Record] Web site devoted to the author. Includes biographical
information, bibliography of primary and secondary works,
links to author�s works, and other related material.
Leeds Verse Database (BCMSV)[Full Record] Information about individual items of English poetry
contained in the 17th and 18th-century manuscripts from the
Brotherton Collection at the Leeds University Library. The
searchable database indexes over 6600 poems from more than
160 manuscripts.
Lexicons of Early Modern English / Ian Lancashire, ed.[Full Record] Historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot
dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries,
spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving
in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline,
Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Public and
subscription versions are available--the public version
allows simple searches on the multilingual lexical database
--which includes major bilingual English and
French-Italian-Latin-Spanish dictionaries--but lacks
advanced retrieval options. LEME replaces the Early Modern
English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD).
LION: Literature Online[Full Record] Full text searchable database of selected British and
American poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th century to
the present. Subscription only - contact your library.
Literary Resources on the Net / Jack Lynch[Full Record] Web site devoted to English and American literature.
Includes links to author Web sites, primary texts, teaching
resources, electronic journals, listservs, scholarly
conferences, and other related material.
Literature for Children[Full Record] A collection of digitized children's books published,
predominantly in the United States and Great Britain, from
the 17th through the 20th centuries.
LLBA: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts[Full Record] Information on journal articles, books, book chapters,
dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and book
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Manuscript Miscellany[Full Record] A collaborative production of the college
teacher-participants in a 2005 NEH summer humanities
institute. “The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England“
sought to compare the states of scholarship and consolidate
research on the role of manuscripts in a variety of
discourses for a variety of audiences in a period extending
from the late middle ages into the eighteenth century.
Maryland State Archives[Full Record] Complete texts of early Maryland records, including
seventeenth and eighteenth-century court and legislative
records.
MLA International Bibliography[Full Record] Information about journals, books, essay collections,
proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies published
worldwide in the areas of literary criticism, language,
linguistics, rhetoric, and folklore of all countries.
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Modern Humanities Research Association[Full Record] Founded at Cambridge, England, in 1918, the MHRA has become
an international association representing scholarship in the
field of the modern and medieval languages and literatures
of Europe (including English) with members in all parts of
the world. Publishes books, texts and dissertations,
journals, and bibliographies.
Modern Language Association of America[Full Record] Web site for the MLA, whose mission is to work to strengthen
the study and teaching of language and literature. Includes
information on membership, publications, annual convention,
and professional resources.
Music Index Online[Full Record] Indexes international music periodicals published since
1979. Includes citations for articles, dissertations,
obituaries, and reviews. Covers nearly all genres of music,
music equipment and technology, musical instruments, the
music business, and more. Subscription only - contact your library.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections[Full Record] A free cooperative cataloging program operated by the
Library of Congress for manuscript collections. Allows users
to search both the RLG Union Catalog and the OCLC Catalog
for manuscript materials.
netLibrary[Full Record] Complete electronic texts of scholarly monographs and
editions, as well as reference works, literature and
fiction. Also includes a number of publicly accessible
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New York Public Library Dance Collection Catalog[Full Record] Lists the holdings of the New York Public Library Dance
Collection. The collection consists of books, periodical
articles, video recordings, and other media. All forms of
dance, from all cultures, in many languages are included.
Orlando Project: A History of Women's Writing in the British Isles[Full Record] This project, which is under construction, will include the
first full scholarly history of women's writing in the
British Isles. It will appear both as four individually
authored volumes of history and as an extensive,
collaboratively authored, electronic textbase.
Oxford Art Online[Full Record] Includes the full text of the Grove Dictionary of Art (1996)
and the Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001) with online
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Oxford Text Archive[Full Record] Provides high-quality scholarly electronic texts and
linguistic corpora (and any related resources) of long-term
interest and use across the range of humanities disciplines
including history and law.
Perdita: Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations[Full Record] The project has purchased a microfilm collection of about
400 manuscripts compiled by women in the British Isles
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Subjects
include poetry, religious writing, autobiographical
material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts. An
online catalog is available (a password is required) which
offers bibliographical information and detailed descriptions
of contents for the information of historians and literary
scholars. The catalogue also includes the team's research on
the manuscripts and their compilers. Subscription only - contact your library.
Periodicals Index Online[Full Record] Indexes articles in arts, humanities and social sciences
periodicals published since the 19th century in 37 key
subject areas. Includes a full text archive and direct
linking to JSTOR. Subscription only - contact your library.
Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online[Full Record] Full text of recent issues of journals from Johns Hopkins
University Press and other scholarly publishers. Covers the
fields of literary studies, history, the visual & performing
arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender
studies, economics, and many other arts and humanities and
social science disciplines. Subscription only - contact your library.
RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies[Full Record] A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields
of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material
listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals
and from collections of articles in Hebrew, Yiddish and English.
Renaissance Dance / Andrew Draskóy[Full Record] Information on European dance from the 15th to early 17th
century. Includes bibliography of primary and secondary
resources, discography, dance treatises, other renaissance
dance links, early music and linguistic resources.
Repositories of Primary Sources[Full Record] A listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of
manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs,
and other primary sources for the research scholar.
Restoration Comedy Project[Full Record] Database of comedies, farces, burlesques and drolls, as well
as some tragicomedies in which comedy has a significant part,
written in the Restoration period. Included also will be
plot summaries and other key information about the plays
such as author, title, date of performance, cast, and
more.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature[Full Record] An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music
and related disciplines published since 1967. Includes
articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference
proceedings, dissertations, reviews and more. Subscription only - contact your library.
Romantic Chronology[Full Record] Chronology of literary, social and historical events in
Great Britain and other countries, with links to related
websites. Covers the time period of 1642-1851, with emphasis
on the romantic period.
Scottish Book Trade Index[Full Record] An index of printers, publishers, booksellers, bookbinders,
printmakers, stationers and papermakers based in Scotland,
from the beginnings of Scottish printing to ca. 1850.
Thumbprints of Ephelia / Maureen E. Mulvihill[Full Record] Offers background information and arguments for the
identification of Lady Mary Villiers, Duchess of Richmond
and Lennox, as Ephelia, the pseudonymous female poet of the
court of Charles II.
UK National Register of Archives[Full Record] The indexes of the NRA offer a means of searching the
catalogues and lists held within the NRA. This material
provides information on the nature and location of
manuscripts and historical records relating to British
history. Search by corporate name, personal name, family
name, or place name.
Victoria and Albert Museum[Full Record] Images of works in the museum's permanent collection of art
and design including fashion, furnishings, photographs,
prints, and textiles.