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English 488 (Significant Authors: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf): George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

To support a 3 unit, upper-division English course on three of the most famous female British authors

Online Scholarly Resources

Norton Anthology of English Literature (Romantic Period)

Bartleby.com (Great Books online)

British Library: Timelines, Sources from History, British Library, London

Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume XIII, online and searchable

Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume IV, online and searchable

Internet Modern History Sourcebook, (Fordham University) -- note, see 19C Britain

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), free, full text, quality controlled and scholarly journals

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame

Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN): International E-Journal Devoted to British Nineteenth-Century Literature, erudit.

JURN, (free, full-text, and curated, academic search engine)

Reference Resources

A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, Herbert F. Tucker (editor)

Cambridge Companion to English Literature, Joanne Shattock (editor)

OED, Oxford English Dictionary (electronic)

The Concise Oxford dictionary of Literary Terms, (Chris Baldick), E. Campus Reference, PN41.C67 2004 (hardcopy)

Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, Sally Mitchell (editor)

The Romantic and Victorian Periods:  Excluding the Novel, Introductions, Kenneth Muir and Arthur Pollard, E. Campus Reference, PR106 .S7 1985, v. 3

APU Databases

MLA International Bibliography, core literature database

Credo Reference, Collection of more than 600 dictionaries and encyclopedias

Project Muse, complete, full-text collection of scholarly journals in a variety of fields

Literature Online, a searchable database of key criticism and reference resources

Proquest Databases, multiple databases in the arts and the humanities

Oxford Reference Online, an online reference library including dictionaries and encyclopedias

JSTOR, over six hundred core, scholarly journals

George Eliot Online

BBC History, George Eliot

The Victorian Web, George Eliot

The George Eliot Fellowship, Coventry, England

George Eliot Timeline

1819 - George Eliot born (birth name Mary Anne Evans)

1846 - Eliot's translation of, "The Life of Jesus," published and does not bear her name

1857 - Blackwood's Magazine publishes the story "Amos Barton," under her pen name, George Eliot

1857 - "Scenes of Clerical Life"

1860 - "The Mill on the Floss" and "Silas Marner"

1863 - "Romola"

1871 - "Middlemarch"

1876 - "Daniel Deronda"

1880 - George Eliot dies

E-Book Websites

Project Gutenberg, First producer of free ebooks

Internet Archive, Digital Free Library

Open Library, A project of the Internet Archive