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Victorian Studies Bibliography
"Since 1933, the Victorian Bibliography has listed noteworthy publications (including articles, books, and reviews) that have a bearing on the Victorian period. Prepared by the staff of Victorian Studies and a committee of the Victorian Division of the Modern Language Association of America, the Bibliography annually indexes over 400 journals, representing scholarship in a range of disciplines." Home page
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"The Victorian Bibliography is organized in a six part division:

* Section 1 lists both enumerative bibliographies relating to the period and studies of printing, publishing, libraries, and book production.
* Section 2 lists documents, general histories, and studies in historiography.
* Section 3 (subdivided into six parts) lists titles on Victorian economics, education, politics, religion, science, and social environment.
* Section 4 lists references to all arts except literature, including studies of architecture, household arts, landscape, music, painting, the performing arts, photography, and sculpture.
* Section 5 focuses exclusively on literature, literary history, and the development of literary forms.
* Section 6 lists individual authors, first citing significant new editions of their works and then listing critical and biographical studies; journals devoted to individual authors are enumerated in this section in single, extended entries, but reviews appearing in their pages are listed under the title of the book reviewed."
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Carlyle Letters Online
"Here you will find a perspective on the 19th century like no other, through the words of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Browse over 10,000 of their collected letters by date, by recipient, by subject, and by volume. We invite you to explore a correspondence that features some of the most influential artistic, philosophic, and literary personalities of the day." Home page
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"Welcome to the Carlyle Letters Online

Duke University Press is proud to present this digital archive based on the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle." Home page
Darwin Correspondence Project
"The Darwin Correspondence Project is locating and researching all known letters to and from Charles Darwin, and is publishing complete texts together with notes and appendices that make them comprehensible to the modern reader." Publications page
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"The Darwin Correspondence Project was founded in 1974 by an American scholar, Frederick Burkhardt, with the aid of Sydney Smith, a zoologist in the University of Cambridge (UK). They originally set out to locate, research, and publish summaries of all letters written by Charles Darwin (1809-82), the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Following a pilot project it was decided to include letters written to Darwin as well as those written by him – an unusual step for a collection of correspondence at the time, and one now widely followed – and to publish complete transcripts in chronological order." About page
Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians
Exploring the Romantic and Victorian periods, Discovering Literature brings together, for the first time, a wealth of the British Library’s greatest literary treasures, including numerous original manuscripts, first editions and rare illustrations.
NINES - Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online
"Searching 620,560 peer-reviewed digital objects from 89 federated sites" Home page
Nineteenth-century Serials Edition
"The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) is a free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers." Home page
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Ncse includes full runs of the first five titles, and a decade only of the Publishers’ Circular. Titles are represented as completely as possible, including multiple editions, advertisements, wrappers, and supplements where we could find them.

* Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833)
* Northern Star (1838-1852)
* Leader (1850-1860)
* English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864)
* Tomahawk (1867-1870)
* Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890)
Rossetti Archive
"The Rossetti Archive facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century." Home page
Victoria Research Web
"Welcome to the Victoria Research Web, a guide to research resources written by Patrick Leary, the founder and manager of the long-running VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies. Like VICTORIA, the VRW is dedicated to the scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain, and to aiding researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period." Home page
Victorian Britain
Discover historical sources and articles written by experts that reveal the everyday reality of living in Victorian Britain. The Victorian period in Britain was one of huge industrial and technological change, shocking divisions between rich and poor, sensational crimes, spectacular entertainments for the masses, and grand attempts to combat squalor and disease. - See more at: http://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain#sthash.pk7qOZWR.dpuf
Victorian Dictionary
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Victorian Women Writers Project
"The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama." About page
Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
"Cinema arrived in 1895 and had reached almost every corner of the globe by the end of 1896. At the close of the nineteenth century it was firmly established as a medium of entertainment, instruction and experiment, making fortunes and reputations and changing the very way that people looked on their world." Home page
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"This website is a biographical guide to the world of Victorian film. It features 300 biographies of those who, behind and in front of the camera, played a significant part in creating the phenomenon of moving pictures. It is based on the book Who's Who of Victorian Cinema, published by the British Film Institute in 1996." Home page

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