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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Childhood

For Students 9th - 10th
These articles research how childhood was depicted in the literature of the 18th and 19th century, and how perceptions of childhood were different from those of today.
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University of Maryland

Romantic Circles Praxis Series

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this informative site that serves as a host of the primary anthologies available in the field of Romantic literature. This comprehensive site will help you develop more knowledge of British Romantic authors and their works.
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Eighteenth Century Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out more about eighteenth-century literature through this comprehensive chronology. This site is set up to take you from 1660 through to 1800.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: 17th Century English Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
A website covering 17th century English literature. Extensive list of links connected to many prominent writers of the time. A detailed historical timeline of the 17th century provided.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Literature 1950 2000

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore key literary works of the late 20th century with these articles.
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British Library: 20th Century: Literature 1900 1950

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore key literary works of the early 20th- century with these articles.
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British Library: 20th Century: Capturing and Creating the Modern

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the ways in which writers captured the fast-changing world around them during the 20th Century.
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British Library: 20th Century: Theatre Practitioners and Genres

For Students 9th - 10th
From Stanislavski to Brecht and from Theatre of the Absurd to Theatre Workshop, explore some of the key influences and developments within 20th-century theatre practice.
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British Library: 20th Century: European Influence

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how European cities were crucibles for modernist experimentation.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Visions of the Future

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the ways in which 20th-century writers imagined the future, investigated the present, and prepared for the unknown.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: An Introduction to Andrea Levy's Small Island

For Students 9th - 10th
Andrea Levy's "Small Island" is a story of post-war Caribbean migration, narrated from four different perspectives. Hannah Lowe explores how the novel is intrinsically linked with Levy's own Caribbean ancestry, as well as how it has...
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British Library: 20th Century: Fantasy and Fairy Tale

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how 20th-century writers used fantasy and traditional tales to analyze and question the real world around them.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Exploring Identity

For Students 9th - 11th
Examine how writers have explored identity - through the prisms of ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality - in the modern world.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Art, Music and Popular Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the music, art, and popular culture that shook the world in the 20th century.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Sketches of British Insects by William Houghton

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Sketches of British Insects: A Handbook for Beginners in the Study of Entomology by William Houghton (1888), an illustrated introductory textbook on the subject of...
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Other

Literature Network: Lord Alfred Tennyson

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you know about Lord Alfred Tennyson? Explore this site featuring a brief but informative summary of his life and work.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Women Writers

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide will help students explore the lives and works of women writers using our Discovering Literature website.[PDF]
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British Library

British Library: Shakespeare in Quarto

For Students 9th - 10th
The very first printed versions of Shakespeare's works are available here at the British Library for looking at, comparing and examining. Also includes valuable links about Shakespeare's plays as they have been performed through the years.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Articles

For Students 9th - 10th
Read newly-commissioned articles on Victorian and Romantic literature.
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The Thomas Gray Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
The Thomas Gray Archive is an interactive hypermedia repository for the study of the life and works of British poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771 CE). The Archive consists of two major sections, the Primary Texts section and the Materials section.
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W. W. Norton

W. W. Norton & Company: Norton Anthology: Introduction to the Romantic Period

For Students 9th - 10th
The major Romantic poets cannot be understood, historically, without an awareness of the extent to which their distinctive concepts, plots, forms, and imagery were shaped first by the promise, then by the tragedy, of the French...
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Gender and Sex

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of articles that research how gender roles were defined in the 19th century, and how they were represented in the literature of the period.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians the Middle Class

For Students 9th - 10th
Throughout the course of the 19th century, the middle classes expanded rapidly. Those moving up the social scale had to learn new modes of behavior and ways of life. These articles research how this sector of society was reflected in the...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"

For Students 9th - 10th
Analyze literature through the study of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Made specifically for students preparing to take the GCSE test, this site is beneficial to all students learning about Stevenson or the elements...

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