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Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site is a professor's guide for students. This guide features information on how to distinguish between Poe and his narrators in his stories.
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Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: The Italian Renaissance (1420 1600)

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief ibiblio.org article provides an overview of the key painters of the Renaissance in Italy. The artists and their major works are the key focus here and while further links on them are available, but you will not find anything...
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eBook
Other

Shorter Poems by Thomas Love Peacock

For Students 9th - 10th
Index page for 15 full-text selected poems by the 19th century English poet, including "Beyond the Sea," "A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day," and "Castles in the Air."
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Handout
British Library

British Library: People: Mary Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Mary Shelley. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
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Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These activities offer learners a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...
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Website
Other

Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914?)

For Students 9th - 10th
This Ambrose Bierce site features a photograph of Bierce and information about his gothic fiction, The Devils Dictionary, a selected bibliogrpahy, and links to related sites, full texts, and the like.
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Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Masque of the Red Death

For Students 9th - 10th
The Masque of the Red Death is a strange gothic story written by Edgar Allan Poe. Read about his fascinating story in a site that analyses characters, looks in detail at important quotations and themes.
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eBook
University of Maryland

Mary Shelley: The Last Man

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of Mary Shelley's futurist novel The Last Man. Set in the twenty-first century, the novel revolves around six characters whose lives, over time and continents, are among the supposedly final generation of humans on...
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eBook
University of Maryland

Mary Shelley's Short Fiction

For Students 9th - 10th
This index page links to the full text of four Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly short stories, including "The False Rhyme," "Ferdinando Eboli," "The Mourner," and "The Mortal Immortal."
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Primary
University of Maryland

Excerpts From Mary Shelley's Letters

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from four different letters written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
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eBook
University of Maryland

"The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of "The Mortal Immortal" written by Mary Shelley.
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Website
University of Maryland

"The Last Man": Apocalypse Without Millennium

For Students 9th - 10th
A critical look at Mary Shelly's "The Last Man" and the idea (widely used in writing of that time) of the last man on earth.
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eBook
Other

Up Word: The First Book of Urizen

For Students 9th - 10th
A verse-by-verse version of William Blake's (1757-1827 CE) First Book of Urizen is offered here at up Word. A lot of clicking, as each verse is a separate page. Not illustrated.
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Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Karen Blixen

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides biographical information on Karen Blixen, including several quotes from her own writings.
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Unit Plan
Emory University

Emory University: Karen Blixen/isak Dinesen

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a brief biography of Karen Blixen, a writer who used the pseudonym of Isak Dinesen. This biography is seperated into the stages in her life, from her time in Africa to life as a writer.
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Website
Other

Mary Shelley's "Mathilda"

For Students 9th - 10th
No text is provided, but there are excerpts from letters about the manuscript, as well as other information regarding the manuscript.
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eBook
Other

"The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
Plain text of "The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley.

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