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Search or browse full-text works by African American women writers. Part of the Digital Schomburg in the New York Public Library Digital Library Collections.

Full-text access to volumes of American Poetry prior to 1920.

Features writing by the Dickinson family, writing about Emily Dickinson, and more.

Provides primary resources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture.

Over 7,400 items spaning the years 1841-1964.

Primary sources related mostly to lesbian and gay history, as well as pornography, in the United States between the 19th and 21st centuries.

Full-text access to children's literature.

Contains the full-text private papers of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain).

Resources for understanding the evolution of book trading and publishing in the U.K. from the mid-sixteenth century to the twenty-first century.
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900+ British and American chapbooks published in the 18th and 19th centuries

173 digitized chapbooks range in both subject and in physical format.

Almost every play submitted for license in England between 1737 and 1824, along with documents to help contextualize the play.
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Internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion

Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library
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17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
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For dozens, if not hundreds of major writers, poets and important English literary figures, who lived and worked in the 17th century or in the Renaissance or Medieval periods, you will find the following types of information: Quotes; Biographical Information; Indexes/Access to digitized full-text works; a number of works rendered in audio; relevant Essays/Articles (about or by); relevant Images; and Additional Resources.

Archive of audio recordings containing poets reading their own work.

Browse by geographic location, topic, and more.