African American Poetry 1700-1900This link opens in a new windowPoems and prose by African American poets with topics including: abolition, children, civil rights, education, fugitive slave law, Indian raids, liberty, prejudice, and slavery.
Afro-Americana ImprintsThis link opens in a new windowBooks, pamphlets, and broadsides that record African American history, literature, and culture. Created from the Library Company's Afro-Americana Collection and covers 1535-1922.
American DramaThis link opens in a new windowContains more than 700 plays of American dramatic literature
American Poetry 1600-1900This link opens in a new windowPoems by American writers from the 17th to the early 20th century. Any accompanying text written by the original author is included if available.
America's Historical ImprintsThis link opens in a new windowEarly American books, pamphlets, broadsides and rare printed materials that document centuries of American history, literature, culture and daily life.
ARTFLThis link opens in a new windowFrench language texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose. Includes eighteenth through twentieth century texts, as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
Children's Literature and CultureThis link opens in a new windowCollection includes the history and literature of childhood between the 1820s and 1920s. Rare books and unique works of art trace the development and evolution of children’s publishing.
Early American FictionThis link opens in a new windowFull text of American novels and short stories from 1774-1850.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)This link opens in a new windowLarge collection of digitized English literature books originally printed in the British Isles and North America from 1473-1700.
Editions and Adaptations of ShakespeareThis link opens in a new windowComplete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works, printings of individual plays, and many adaptations, sequels and burlesques.
Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the StageThis link opens in a new windowArchive of almost every play submitted for license in Britain between 1737 and 1824. Includes hundreds of documents such as diaries and correspondences that provide social context for the plays at that time.
Eighteenth Century FictionThis link opens in a new windowEnglish fiction from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles.
English Poetry 600 - 1900This link opens in a new windowFull text of thousands of poems by poets from British Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries, between the years 600 and 1900. Works in English of Welsh, Scottish, and Irish poets are also included.
English Prose Drama 1280-1915This link opens in a new windowFull text of English plays, including any accompanying text written by the author. Contains works from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century.
English Short Title CatalogueFreely available resource lists 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800. Describes works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period.
English Verse Drama 13th-19th CenturiesThis link opens in a new windowFull text of English poetry intended for stage. The database also includes masques and short dramatic pieces written primarily in verse, selected translations, works written for children and numerous adaptations.
Loeb Classical LibraryThis link opens in a new windowGreek and Latin literature available with accurate English translations to support research in the Classics. Searching is available by person, place, a quotation, or how a particular word has been translated in a work, or by an author.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources from the 1800s mainly from Western perspectives. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other documents.
Nineteenth Century Literary SocietyThis link opens in a new windowArchive of a British publishing company from 1768-1900. The collection covers book history to travel writing, and politics to poetry. It also includes both the manuscripts and personal papers of Lord Byron.
Shakespeare and Company ProjectIn 1919, an American woman named Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookshop and lending library in Paris. Almost immediately, it became the home away from home for a community of expatriate writers and artists now known as the Lost Generation. In 1922, she published James Joyce’s Ulysses under the Shakespeare and Company imprint, a feat that made her—and her bookshop and lending library—famous around the world. In the 1930s, she increasingly catered to French intellectuals, supplying English-language publications from the recently rediscovered Moby Dick to the latest issues of The New Yorker. In 1941, she preemptively closed Shakespeare and Company after refusing to sell her last copy of Joyce's Finnegans Wake to a Nazi officer.
The Shakespeare and Company Project uses sources from the Beach Papers at Princeton University to reveal what the lending library members read and where they lived. The Project is a work-in-progress, but you can begin to explore now. Search and browse the lending library members and books. Read about joining the lending library.
Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare LibraryThis link opens in a new windowTheatre prompt books describing key performances in Great Britain and the United States, between the 17th and 20th centuries. It also contains case studies built around 17 selected performances with supplementary materials.
Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & PerformanceThis link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents offering insights into over 200 performances at the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It includes prompt books, wardrobe notes, programs, publicity materials, and reports.
TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae)This link opens in a new windowGreek texts from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453 with text displayed in Greek. Users must create a personal account to see all content.
Travel Writing, Spectacle, and World HistoryThis link opens in a new window19th and 20th century travel writing, documenting travel to British, French, Chinese, and American destinations through the writing of women.
20th Century African American PoetryThis link opens in a new windowPoems by more than 100 African-American poets from 1900-2000. Biographical profiles accompany each poet's work.
20th Century American PoetryThis link opens in a new windowPoetry covering the works of most major twentieth-century American poets. The collection includes all the major poetry movements and schools.
20th Century English PoetryThis link opens in a new windowPoetry collection by English poets from the twentieth century. Introductions, prefaces, notes, prose sections, and images are included.
Women Writers OnlineThis link opens in a new windowWomen’s literary works in the early modern period, from 1526-1850. Texts are of verse, drama, fiction, and non-fiction.
Victorian Popular CultureThis link opens in a new windowResource for the study of popular entertainment in Britain and America, from about 1779-1950. Primary and secondary documents on topics such as spiritualism & magic, circuses, music halls and cinema are included.
Manuscripts
British Literary ManuscriptsThis link opens in a new windowImages of British literary manuscripts, including letters, diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works. Coverage from the medieval time period to 1900.
Literary Manuscripts, Berg collectionThis link opens in a new windowEnglish and American Victorian literary manuscripts collection, also includes: unpublished poems, working notebooks, correspondences, drawings, and author annotated editions.
Perdita ManuscriptsThis link opens in a new windowCollection of manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Romanticism: Life, Literature and LandscapeThis link opens in a new windowCollection focusing on poets and writers of the Romantic period. It provides access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers.
