Intimate glimpses into the lives and works of major literary figures

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1 British Literary Manuscripts Online, c Intimate glimpses into the lives and works of major literary figures William Blake Elizabeth Browning Alexander Pope Alfred Tennyson GALE

2 British Literary Manuscripts Online, c From the rise of Charles II to the death of Queen Victoria, British Literary Manuscripts Online contains complete facsimile copies of manuscripts of Britain s major authors, including poems, plays, novels, private correspondence, diaries, journals, drawings and handwritten notes. The largest digitization project of its kind, British Literary Manuscripts Online: Brings together priceless manuscript documents once scattered throughout the world Allows for the study of manuscripts to be integrated into humanities curriculum Opens up endless possibilities for users studying authors social networks, their personal beliefs and attitudes, their education and the development of their writings Jane Eyre. Sourced from the British Library. Robert Burns, c Sourced from the National Library of Scotland.

3 British Literary Manuscripts Online, c shows what rich resources exist for the study of literary works in manuscript from the Restoration to the late nineteenth century. What makes this project unique is the way in which collections from libraries in different part of the world can be brought together to create an essential archive of primary materials. The possibilities such a resource has for research and teaching are enormous and have yet to be explored fully. As a new direction in manuscript studies of all periods, Gale s project is truly innovative. Professor Henry Woudhuysen, University College London Sourced from major libraries The manuscripts in British Literary Manuscripts Online are sourced from major libraries in Britain and the United States, including: The British Library The Folger Shakespeare Library The National Library of Scotland Princeton University Library Brontë Parsonage Museum National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum William Clark Memorial Library, University of California Los Angeles Huntington Library Charles Dickens

4 Primary materials of major literary figures Discover the manuscripts of British authors active from including: Aphra Behn William Blake Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anne Brontë Robert Burns Thomas Carlyle William Cowper Charles Dickens Samuel Johnson John Locke William Morris Alexander Pope Sir Walter Scott Laurence Sterne Jonathan Swift Alfred Lord Tennyson Catharine Trotter Oscar Wilde William Wordsworth And many more Samuel Johnson s journal while traveling in France, Sourced from the British Library. The Chimes, by Charles Dickens, c Sourced from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

5 Connect to classic works Users can access priceless primary materials online anytime including: Autograph manuscripts of Alexander Pope including his translation of Homer s Iliad Drafts of William Blake s Songs of Experience Partial drafts of Fanny Burney s novel Camilla as well as assorted poems and letters 156 poems of Robert Burns, including the autograph draft of his last major narrative poem Tam O Shanter Thomas Carlyle s letters expressing his sympathy for the urban poor Complete manuscript drafts of 12 of Charles Dickens s major novels, including A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, David Copperfield, Hard Times, Little Dorrit and Oliver Twist Complete autograph manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë s Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, along with autograph copies of three of her early unpublished stories and of Emily Brontë s Gondal Poems Partial manuscript drafts of Sir Walter Scott s novels Ivanhoe and Castle Dangerous Original typescripts of Oscar Wilde s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mrs. Arbuthnot (A Woman of No Importance) with the author s corrections and emendations And many more William Cowper William Wordsworth Samuel Johnson Sir Walter Scott

6 An intuitive and dynamic online search environment British Literary Manuscripts Online allows researches to follow a writer s journey and discover his or her creative process in an intuitive and dynamic online search environment: Search by full citation, author, titles of major works, document type, year, century, source library, source microfilm collection Link to related resources Link directly from catalog entries to facsimiles of the manuscripts Create permanent links to materials of interest Print, or download facsimiles and their related metadata Fuzzy search Browse authors, library collections, microfilm collections View manuscript page-by-page or as thumbnails Resize, rotate, fit to height, fit to width, full-screen view Compare manuscripts MARC Records available Dynamic search options connect you to facsimiles of manuscripts of British authors

7 Advisory board of scholars A board of scholars contributed their significant expertise to British Literary Manuscripts Online defining its metadata, searchability and display requirements: Charlotte Cubbage, Humanities Coordinator and Subject Specialist for English, Comparative Literatures, and the Performing Arts, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois James L. Harner, Samuel Rhea Gammon Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A & M University; Editor, World Shakespeare Bibliography Susan Schreibman, Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin, Ireland Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia Henry Woudhuysen, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University College London, England; general overseer and principal advisor to the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts Free trial For more information or to request a free trial of British Literary Manuscripts Online, please contact your Gale Representative or visit

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