- Following these links will automatically open a new window in your viewer. You can move this new window aside and uncover the Victorian Web, which remains present. Return here by closing the newly opened window.
- Additional links to materials outside VW appear in sections of the site devoted to individual authors and other specific topics.
- Many thanks to Deborah J. Schmidle of Cornell for sending in new URLs for a dozen sites, and thanks also to Karen Mardahl for updating a link.
Literature
- Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches in selected works of two dozen Victorian authors
- The Arthurian Background: Alan Lupack's Camelot Project (University of Rochester)
- British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (University of Virginia)
- The English Web (University of Pennsylvania)
- Glenn Everett's Robert Browning Hypermedia Archive (Stonehill University)
- Dickens Project Home Page (University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Victorian Poetry, the leading journal in its field (West Virginia University)
- William Morris (City University of New York)
- The Dante Gabriel Rossetti Archive (University of Virginia)
- The Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University)
- H. G. Wells (U of Arizona)
- The Mosher Press (a source of information about Pre-Raphaelite literature) -- hosted at Millersville University
- Want to Experience What Reading Novels Serially is Like? -- Christopher Hapka's site will e-mail works to you section by section
- Texts of Victorian Poems (Poet Seers site)
- Peter Joyce's Assembled Stories, a commercial site with audio books, many of which are not just the old chestnuts.
The Victorian Theater, Music, and Popular Entertainment
- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
- Michael Booth Theatre Collection (University of Newcastle NSW, Australia)
- Derek Greenacre's Magic Lantern site
- The Victorian pastime of crest collecting
The Visual Arts
- The National Art Library (UK), contains materials relating to literature (e.g., Dickens manuscripts) as well as art.
- The Pre-Raphhaelite Critic -- Contemporary Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelites (Duquesne University)
Victorian History and Culture
- The 1901 census for England and Wales
- English Heritage Images
- Non-commercial: Viewfinder website includes thousands of Victorian era images, amongst many others relevant to Victorian England (not all keyworded Victorian):
- Non-commercial: Heritage Explorer (website aimed at UK schools)
- Commercial: www.englishheritageprints.com (print sales website)
- Commercial: www.englishheritageimages.com (image licensing website)
- The Disraeli Project (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
- Thomas E. Hart's materials on George Bernard Shaw and philosophical opposition to Darwinism.
- Victorian and Edwardian Maps and Guide Books
- The Prince Albert Society
- Faversham, Kent, Market Town of Kings
The site is used by genealogists and indeed anyone who wants to research ancestors or find out who lived at a particular address - individual or famous. It also includes details of those aboard vessels or in institutions at the time of the census. The site is ideal for researching your family tree or house history and for gaining an insight into life a century ago - work life, social status, occupations etc. Plenty of famous individuals feature - from Charlie Chaplin to The Queen Mother to Claude Monet and Dr Crippen!
Miscellaneous general Resources
- The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
- The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900
- Penguin Classics Website -- an elegantly conceived web-resource containing short articles, biographies, synopses, and feature essays on many Victorian authors
- Patrick Leary's Victoria Research Web (Indiana University)
- The Victorian Society in America
- Victorian Studies, the leading interdisciplinary scholarly journal in the field (Indiana University)
- Archives of the Victoria discussion list , which can be searched and browsed (Indiana University)
- The Ladies' Victorian Study Society
- Neo-Victorian Studies
A treasure trove of copyright-free images on all subjects. For example, the Visual Arts, Landscapes and Cityscapes of Great Britain section contains 1,119 photomechanical prints in color.
Neo-Victorian Studies is a peer-reviewed, inter-disciplinary eJournal dedicated to the exploration of the contemporary fascination with re-imagining the nineteenth century and its varied literary, artistic, socio-political and historical contexts in both British and international frameworks. Perhaps most evident in the proliferation of so-called neo-Victorian novels, the trend is also discernible in a recent abundance of nineteenth century biographies, the continuing allure of art movements such as the pre-Raphaelites, popular cinema productions and TV adaptations, and historical re-evaluations in such fields as medicine, psychology, sexology, and studies in cultural memory. Neo-Victorian Studies provides a strategic forum to analyse the complicated investments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in historical remembrance, revision, and reconstruction, to engage creatively with the period, and to stimulate international debate and exchange of ideas in this flourishing field of critical and artistic endeavour.
20 November 2008.