[Includes general sources on 18th and 19th century literature; see below for sources on individual authors by name] – and in process like everything else…

LANGUAGE SOURCES

• Dictionary of Cant and English Slang, by Nathan Bailey, 1736 [at From Old Books]
• Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose, 1811 [at From Old Books] 
• HEL- History of the English Language [to 2005]
• the Long-s versus f – compiled by Jack Lynch

LITERATURE   SOURCES   [in process]

Books: 

1. Backscheider, Paula R., ed.  Revising Women:  Eighteenth-Century “Women’s Fiction” and Social Engagement.  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
2. Brown, Julia Prewitt. A Reader’s Guide to the Nineteenth-Century English Novel.  Macmillan, 1985.  
3. Hughes, Kristine.  The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England, from 1811-1901.  Writer’s Digest Books, 1998.
4. Pool, Daniel.  Dickens’ Fur Coat and Charlotte’s Unanswered Letters:  the rows and romances of England’s great Victorian novelists.  NY:  HarperCollins, 1997.
5. Pool, Daniel.  What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: from fox-hunting to whist – the facts of daily life in Nineteenth-century England.  NY:  Simon & Schuster, 1993.
6. Steeves, Harrison R.  Before Jane Austen:  the Shaping of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century. NY:  Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1965.  [final chapter is on Jane Austen]

• Elegant Extracts: or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose.  London, 1797
• Flowers of Literature for 1804:  or characteristic sketches of human nature and modern manners.  London, 1804

• At the Circulating Library, A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901
• British Fiction 1800-1829: A Database of Production, Circulation and Reception
• British Women Romantic Poets – UC Davis Project
• British Women’s Novels, A Reading List 1775-1818 [to 2003, Cathy Decker’s page, see also below]
• BWWA – 18th-19th centuries British Women Writers Assocation
• the C18-L’s Selected Readings Homepage – resources for 18th-century studies across the disciplines
• Catherine Decker’s Homepage – includes links to all her Regency Pages, as well as other literature links [current to 7/03]
• A Celebration of Women Writers – UPenn Digital Library; and the Celebrating Women Writers LiveJournal
• Centre for 18th century Studies at York University
• Chawton House Library – early women writers to 1830.  See also their link Novels Online
• The Dictionary of Sensibility – definitions, bibliographies
• Eigtheenth Century Fiction  [ Digital Commons Journal at McMaster University – subscription only]
• Eigtheenth Century Resources – Literature – Jack Lynch page, current to 1/2006.
• Eigtheenth Century Studies – [alert! many outdated links]
• Ellen Moody’s Literature page
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project – [to 2006]
• Finding English Verse, 1650-1800 – James Woolley
• First Line Index of English Verse, 13th – 19th century – a union list of first lines of manuscript verse held by contributing institutions, hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Historical Outline of Restoration & 18th century English Literature
• Literary History.com
• Literary Link.com – Definitions of Literary Terms
• Literary Stamps Blog
• The Loiterer by James Austen. This website also includes “Voices of Men in Praise of Jane Austen”, and notes by “Sophia Sentiment.”
• The Long Eighteenth blog
• New York Public Library Literature Companion
• The Nineteenth-Century English Novel – Bibliographic Resources
• the NCSA – Nineteenth Century Studies Association
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature – online topics index
• Orlando: Womens Writing in the British Isles – Cambridge University, subscription database
• Quotidiana – classical essays online, collected by Patrick Madden
• Rakes & Libertines – English course by Dr. Stephen Bending, includes further links and bibliographies.  Discussion of Richardson, Austen, Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Byron, etc. – to 2009]
• RED: The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945.  A searchable database of the reading experience of British subjects, by Open University (UK).  If you search ‘Jane Austen’ you will get a listing of all the books read cited in her letters, etc, as well as the many references to other’s readings of Austen.  A wonderful resource!
• Representative Poetry Online
• Romantic Circles Website [University of Maryland] – search “Jane Austen” or specific novels for online articles
• Victorian Literary Studies Archive [concordances, etc]; Victorian Literary Studies Archive [links]
• Victoria Research Web, by Patrick Leary
• The Victorian Women Writers Project [at Indiana University – to 2002]
• Voice of the Shuttle – English Literature Romantic Period [various links, some outdated]
• Women in the Literary Marketplace 1800-1900 – Cornell University Library Exhibition 2002.  There is a Jane Austen link.
• Women Writers – Electronic Text Center at the Univerity of Virginia [some texts are restricted to UVA users only, but many are open acccess]

AUSTEN’S LITERARY CIRCLE

The Bluestocking Archive

The Brontes:

• The Bronte Blog, an excellent source for all things Bronte –  various links to the e-texts, other web sites, a bibliography of sources, etc.
• The Bronte Parsonage Museum & Bronte Society
• The Bronte Family

Charlotte Bronte:   [see my full post here]

Anne Bronte: [see my full post here]

There are many sites devoted to the Brontes; I append here a few of them which offer additional links.

• The BronteBlog, with a host of invaluable information and links
• Celebration of Women Authors
• The Bronte Sisters Web, for numerous links and e-texts
• The Literature Network
• Books and Writers site
• Bronte Parsonage Museum & Bronte Society in Haworth
• Anne Bronte Page at the Haworth Village site
• Bronte Country website
• The Literary Gothic Page with many Anne Bronte links
• Agnes Grey at Google Books
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall e-text at The Literature Page
• Poems of Anne Bronte at PoemHunter
• Poem by Charlotte Bronte on Anne’s death at Acacia
• Timeline at Google
•  Bronte Parsonage Blog
• the Five Faces of Anne Bronte at the Michael Armitage Bronte site
• Wikipedia

 And for those who like BOOKS! (there are many…here are a few of the recent works I recommend)

• *Chitham, Edward.  A Life of Anne Bronte.  Blackwell, 1991.
• *Barker, Juliet.  The Brontes.  St. Martins 1995.
• *Barker, Juliet.  The Brontes:  A Life in Letters.  Overlook Press, 1997.
• *Chitham, Edward, ed.  The Poems of Anne Bronte.  London, 1979.
• *Miller, Lucasta.  The Bronte Myth.  Knopf, 2003.

Frances Burney:

• Burney Society
• Fanny Burney
• Fanny Burney by Ellen Moody

Cowper:

• William Cowper
• William Cowper’s Hymns

Charles Dickens: [see my full post here]

• David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page
• Charles Dickens at the Literature Network
• Charles Dickens at the Victorian Web
• Dickens Museum in London
• The Dickens Project at the University of California
• Dickens Timeline at Google

George Eliot:

• George Eliot Literature Network
• George Eliot-Literary History.com

Elizabeth Gaskell: [see my full post here]

• The Gaskell Web
•  The Gaskell Information Page which includes many links to other information, societies, etc.
• The E-Texts of all her works.

A few biographies: by Angus Easson (London, 1979); Winifred Gerin (Oxford, 1980); Aina Rubenius, The Woman Question in Mrs. Gaskell’s Life and Work (Upsala, 1950); Jenny Uglow, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (London, 1993)1

Mrs. Gaskell’s Works:

1. Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life, anonymous (2 volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1848; 1 volume, New York: Harper, 1848);
2. Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras: A Lancashire Tale, as Cotton Mather Mills, Esquire (London: Hamilton, Adams, 1850);
3. Lizzie Leigh: A Domestic Tale, from “Household Words,” attributed to Charles Dickens (New York: Dewitt & Davenport, 1850);
4. The Moorland Cottage, anonymous (London: Chapman & Hall, 1850; New York: Harper, 1851);
5. Ruth: A Novel, anonymous (3 volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1853; 1 volume, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853);
6. Cranford, anonymous (London: Chapman & Hall, 1853; New York: Harper, 1853);
7. Lizzie Leigh and Other Tales, anonymous (London: Chapman & Hall, 1855; Philadelphia: Hardy, 1869);
8. Hands and Heart and Bessy’s Troubles at Home, anonymous (London: Chapman & Hall, 1855);
9. North and South, anonymous (2 volumes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1855; 1 volume, New York: Harper, 1855);
10. The Life of Charlotte Brontë; Author of “Jane Eyre,” “Shirley,” “Villette” etc., 2 volumes (London: Smith, Elder, 1857; New York: Appleton, 1857);
11. My Lady Ludlow, A Novel (New York: Harper, 1858); republished as Round the Sofa (2 volume’s, London: Low, 1858);
12. Right at Last, and Other Tales (London: Low, 1860; New York: Harper, 1860);
13. Lois the Witch and Other Tales (Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1861);
14. Sylvia’s Lovers (3 volumes, London: Smith, Elder, 1863; 1 volume, New York: Dutton, 1863);
15. A Dark Night’s Work (London: Smith, Elder, 1863; New York: Harper, 1863);
16. Cousin Phillis: A Tale (New York: Harper, 1864); republished as Cousin Phillis and Other Tales (London: Smith, Elder, 1865);
17. The Grey Woman and Other Tales (London: Smith, Elder, 1865; New York: Harper, 1882);
18. Wives and Daughters: An Every-Day Story (2 volumes, London: Smith, Elder, 1866; 1 volume, New York: Harper, 1866).

(this list from the Edgar Wright Gaskell Page)

Thomas Hardy:

• Thomas Hardy Association
• Thomas Hardy Blog
• Thomas Hardy Literature Network
• Thomas Hardy Overview

Samuel Johnson:

• Hyde Collection Catablog [Harvard University]
• Samuel Johnson Library at LibraryThing

 John Milton

• Milton Reading Room
• Milton:  The Wickenheiser Collection

Samuel Pepys

• Pepys’ Diary – Daily entries from the 17th century London Diary

Ann Radcliffe: [see here for my full Radcliffe post]

The Works:

• The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789) –  e-text at Internet Archive and UPenn.edu
• A Sicilian Romance (1790) – e-text at the Literature Network
• The Romance of the Forest (1791) – e-text at Adelaide.edu.au and Questia.com
• The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) – e-text at the Literature Network, and atGirlebooks
• The Italian (1797) – e-text at Adelaide.edu.au
• Gaston de Blondeville (1826) – e-text at Internet Archive [ The Posthumous Works of Anne Radcliffe ]
• Journey through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany (1795) – e-text at Internet Archive [vol.1], and e-text at Internet Archive [vol. 2]
• Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe [London 1816] – the collected poems from the novels  [a pirated edition],  e-text at upenn.edu
• “On the Supernatural in Poetry”  [from The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, vol 16, no. 1, 1826, 145-152]

Online Sources:

• Ann Radcliffe Biographyby Ruth Facer at the Chawton House Library
• Ann Radcliffe at the Victorian Web
• Ann Radcliffe at The Literary Gothic
• Ann Radcliffe overview by Lilia Melani at CUNY/ Brooklyn College
• Reference Sources at Infography
• “Mrs. Radcliffe’s Novels” by Andrew Lang at Adelaide.edu.au
• Smith, Chris. “Raising Radcliffe: The Roots of Gothic Tradition,” The University of Maine [2003]