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19th Century Literature Resources (all) 
 
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Articles (from journals)
American Periodical Series (ProQuest)
Digitized page images from American magazines and journals of all types. Titles range from some of the first... [more info]
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
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Articles (from magazines)
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (HW Wilson)
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States... [more info]
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Books / Book Chapters
Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications... [more info]
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Black Short Fiction (Alexander Street Press)
A full-text collection of short stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. [more info]
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Drama
Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications... [more info]
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Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of Asian American plays with biographical, production and theatrical information... [more info]
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Letters & Diaries
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs... [more info]
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters... [more info]
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News Articles
19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette. [more info]
America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state... [more info]
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Poetry
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (Chadwyck-Healey)
Includes the full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900... [more info]
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American Poetry (Chadwyck-Healey)
Includes 40,356 poems by 209 poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry... [more info]
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Primary Sources
19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette. [more info]
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 (Chadwyck-Healey)
Includes the full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900... [more info]
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Reference Information
Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge Histories Online provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature... [more info]
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Websites
Victorian Women Writers Project
Provides transcripts of works written by 19th century British women writers. Includes anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. [more info]
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
Provides electronic access to over 2,800 volumes of 19th century American fiction. Works may be viewed as either rekeyed text or page images. [more info]
  
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Drama
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Poetry
Primary Sources
Reference Information
Websites
Contact the 19th Century Literature Librarian:
Melissa Van Vuuren