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"Woodpecker Tapestry," Morris and Co.
Timelines
- British Women's History 1750-1930
- 19th Century British Timeline
- Chronology of Scottish History and Culture
Comprehensive Examination Lists
Bibliographies Compiled by Professor Florence Boos
- Victorian Women Poets Bibliography
- Victorian Literature Bibliography 1830-1900 (to 1990)
- Recent Works on Victorian Literature and Culture (1990-2001)
- Victorian Fiction (to 1990)
- Victorian Social History, Sexuality, and the Lives of Women
- Bibliography on Victorian Historicism (to 1990)
Selected Web Sites
Victorian Websites : A remarkably extensive and current site to the wealth of Victorian materials on the web. Use your "find in page" command under "edit" in the upper left corner of your screen to effectively maneuver within this site.
The Victorian Web : An encyclopedia of brief entries on Victorian culture including sections for economics, religion, philosophy, visual arts, literature, science, politics, and more.
The Pre-Raphaelite Critic : A bibliographic guide to critical reactions to paintings and writings of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Victorian Women Writers Project : from Brown University, an electronic collection of texts by British women writers of the late Victorian period.
Art Galleries
Pre-Raphaelites , Bowler, Brett and Brown
Pre-Raphaelites , Hunt
Pre-Raphaelites
Williams Morris and the Decorative Arts - stained glass
William Morris and the Decorative Arts - Kelmscott Press
William Morris and the Decorative Arts - illuminated manuscripts
William Morris and the Decorative Arts - wallpaper, cloth, tiles
William Morris and the Decorative Arts - furniture and decor
Victorian and Edwardian Women Artists
Selected Library Databases and Indexes
Dictionary of Literary Biography (UI access only)- background information on authors and their works.
Cambridge History of English and American Literature - the 13 volume set online.
The Wellesley Index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900 (UI access only)
MLAB (UI access only) Modern Language Association Bibliography, 1967 - present. Indexes books, chapters of books, dissertations, journal articles
Oxford English Dictionary (UI access only)
PCI Periodicals Contents Index (UI access only) Scanned contents pages of about 2100 magazines and journals, some back to 1770. Excellent resource for book reviews. For example, Edinburgh Review (1802-1929).
Poole's Plus (UI access only) Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) (Editor: W. F. Poole.) All records (490,000) are now available for searching. Additional minor records are being added following the conversion of these records to database form. Record verification andcorrection continues on minor records. See also the paper copy in Reference Index area.
Lion (Literature Online) (UI access only) A fully searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature. Includes Abell (The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature), which contains over 500,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
A fuller set of links and resources may be found on Florence Boos's faculty site, on the pages for "Affiliations and Links" (www.uiowa.edu/~english/faculty/boos/links.html.
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