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BookBritish Literature
Access sites on British Literature. Sites are divided into About British Literature and British Literature Collections. Some sites include provide a mix of resources.

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About British Literature
Access sites that are mainly about British Literature: sites that define, interpret or give overviews.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceBibliomania
This site archives full text works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and reference. Find such works as A.S. Eddington's Stars, James Joyce's Ulysses, William Blake's Songs of Innocence or Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Special interest: Collections, Fiction and Study Guides. Note: You must register to access study guides, but they are free.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceBritannica.com: Shakespeare and the Globe
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, this exhibit features information about Shakespeare, his plays, the theater in which they were performed and more.

EDSITEment: British Literature and Language Arts
Access top British Literature and Language Arts Websites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities from participating Websites.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceLuminarium
Part of the larger multi-award winning Luminarium web site. This portion includes quotes, life and works such authors as John Donne, Sir Thomas Malory, William Shakespeare, as well as essays and articles and additional resources. 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603), Anthology of Middle English Literature: (1350-1485), English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)

eserver.org: Shakespearian Glossary
A simple text glossary of Shakespearian terms.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceVictorian Web
From George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University. Access full text literatures, historical, and cultural information and full text books on the period. Special interest: Authors, Victorian Web Books, and Victorianism.

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British Literature Collections
Access sites that mainly collect full text British Literature.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceBartleby.com: Index to Titles
"the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web..." This site includes a full text collection of classic literature and reference works (formerly Project Bartleby). Special interest: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Fiction, The Harvard Classics, Modern British Poetry, Oxford Book of English Verse, The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, Oxford Shakespeare, The Short-Story, and Verse.

British and Irish Authors on the Web
Created by a professor of Language & Culture at Nagoya University, Japan. Get links to scholarly as well as irreverent web sites relating to authors of British and Irish literature. Authors are accessible by time period, and include such writers as Chaucer, Eliot and Swift.

CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts
Texts by Irish authors, including literary and historical works. Find the works of such authors as Oscar Wilde, Oliver Goldsmith, and Pádraic H. Pearse, as well as documents of historical interest such as The Path to Freedom by Michael Collins, or The Re-Conquest of Ireland by James Connolly. Note: Not all texts present have been translated into English, but are in the original Irish languages, or Latin.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
From MIT, get the Shakespeare comedy, history, tragedy, or poetry of your choice.

eserver.org: Eighteenth-Century Studies
This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here, along with modern criticism. The bulk of the material is British, but it also includes American and French (in English) resources.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceElectronic Text Center: English Online Resources 
Part of the Modern English Collection of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. This site has archived many English language works. Note: Larger works can be retrieved in sections by way of a Table of Contents [TOC] choice. Some items are available to UVa users only due to licensing requirements. Special interest: Bestsellers 1900-1930, British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive, English Religious Resources, The Middle English Collection, The Modern English Collection, Shakespeare Resources, and Women Writers.

Google: British Literature
Links to popular British literature related sites, with subcategories.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceThe Online Books Page: English Language
Part of the larger The Online Books Page site. This portion covers English language books. Special interest: A Celebration of Women Writers: Writers from England and English (non-American).

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceRepresentative Poetry Online
Based at the Department of English, University of Toronto, Representative Poetry On-line includes about 1,650 English poems by about 260 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century. This page is the index by poet page, but other indexes may also be accessed: by First Line; by Title; by Date; by Keyword; or by Criticism on Poetry. Special interest: Glossary of Poetic Terms.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceRenascence Editions
Renascence Editions archives works printed in English between the years 1477 and 1799. Special interest: Lyrical Ballads, Shakespeare, Spenser.

Victorian Women Writer's Project
A project of Indiana University. This expanding site has collected the works of such authors as Harriet Martineau, Edith Nesbit, and Lady Jane Wilde.

VoS: Modern British Authors, Works Projects
From Voice of the Shuttle (VoS). Modern British works by author. Special interest: Contemporary British, and Other Literatures Written in English.

Yahoo! United Kingdom Literature
Links to authors, classics, genres, periods, and more.

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