The Virtual Library

Books, Literature, Poetry

General

Alliance of Literary Societies
Listing of literary societies in the UK and Ireland
http://www.allianceofliterarysocieties.org.uk/

Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Access all 18 volumes of the first edition published between 1907 and 1921
http://www.bartleby.com/ cambridge

Chawton House Library
Women's writing in English from 1600 to 1830. Site includes biographies of women writers and full-text transcripts of some of the library's rarest novels
http://www.chawtonhouse.org/ ?page_id=43822

Enotes - Literature
Free content includes critical essays; biographies of writers of feminist and Gothic literature; full text of many classics, including Shakespeare's works; and a 'calendar of literary facts' with more than 6500 events in literary history. You can search the calendar by year or by keyword or to see what happened on a particular day
http://lit.enotes.com/

Intute - Humanities
Search results give annotated links selected by subject specialists
http://www.intute.ac.uk/ humanities/

London Review of Books
Selected content from this literary magazine is free online
http://www.lrb.co.uk

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