"THE VICTORIAN WEB" http://www.victorianweb.org/ Brown University

This site has lots of historical information on the time period (political history, social history, gender matters, philosophy, religion, science, etc, links to e-books of literary criticism about the period, bibliographies, and an extensive listing of links to other Victorian sites.

"George Landow, a pioneer in the theory and practice of hypertext in the humanities, has created in The Victorian Web a splendid teaching tool in the form of a growing encyclopedia of Victorian culture. Visitors to the site will find capsule summaries of many events, movements, and themes, with an emphasis upon Victorian literature and religion, written by leading scholars in the field. This hugely informative and well-designed site, a product of many hands, is by far the most comprehensive and widely praised Victorian resource on the Web." -Victoria Research Web

Other General Victorian Sites Include:

"BRITISH PERIODICALS AT MINNESOTA: THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY" http://mh.cla.umn.edu/britper.html

This site features an index of the U of M’s early Victorian Periodicals from 1800 to 1850.

"LITERARY SOURCES: VICTORIAN BRITISH" http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/victoria.html (Rutgers)

A comprehensive listing of links to Victorian Resources on the web. It lists many sites and provides a short summary for most. The list is divided into general sites and sites specific to a single author. This site could be a good starting point for online research into the Victorian period.

"MONUMENTS AND DUST: THE CULTURE OF VICTORIAN LONDON" http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mhc/ (Virginia)

A study on the city of London during the Victorian period. The site is still under construction, but it looks like it will have e-texts providing insight on Victorian London. It looks like the e-texts will be literary criticism, contextual materials, and information on the period, as well as the actual literary works of the period. E-texts are to be encoded in SGML. The materials for "Monuments and Dust" include text, image, tabular data, and maps

"NEW BOOKS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH STUDIES" http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/english/19c/newbooks.html (USC)

"This site offers complete publication information for scholarly works on the British Romantic and Victorian periods. Here you can find authors, titles, publishers, prices, ISBN numbers and publishers' descriptions for new and forthcoming critical works, anthologies, and critical editions of nineteenth-century British materials. In addition, original reviews are available for selected works…Any text published since 1995 that includes a clear connection to nineteenth-century Britain is eligible for inclusion."

"VICTORIAN STUDIES ON THE WEB" http://www.victoriandatabase.com/ (Alberta)

"An indispensable source of information on every important publication from 1945 to 1999 on every field of Victorian Studies." Available online (for a fee), on CD-ROM, or in print. Contains articles, books, and has critical recommendations.

"VICTORIA RESEARCH WEB" http://victorianresearch.org/ (Indiana)

Again, Lots of contextual information here, a list of archives with Victorian materials, a list of libraries and bibliographies, discussion groups, and more links. No e-texts.

"VICTORIAN RESOURCES FROM VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE" http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2751 (UCSB)

There is a wealth of Informative resources, links, and hypertexts from this site. Professor Alan Liu runs it from the University of California at Santa Barbara. The site is divided up into general resources, electronic resources, authors on social issues, course syllabi, criticism, journals, listservs & newsgroups, and conferences, as well as by individual author.

"VICTORIAN RESOURCES ONLINE" http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~bpn2f/victorian/bibliog.html

This site has links to other online resources. It has a fairly comprehensive list with short descriptions of the resources. It is divided into sections such as bibliographies and guides, literature and the press, art and architecture, society and social issues; and education, medicine, theater, and religion.

"VICTORIAN WEB SITES" http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html (Nagoya, Japan)

Many links, but also many Victorian e-texts. One of the most exhaustive sites I've encountered thus far. At http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/ there are more links, including some to e-texts by Gaskell, Gissing, and the Brontë sisters, with the intent to digitize the complete works of these authors. At http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/etexts.html there is a list of all of the e-texts thus far digitized. All e-texts are HTML.

Historical Context

"CHARLES BOOTH'S 1889 DESCRIPTIVE MAP OF LONDON POVERTY" http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/ (Michigan)

Another neat contextual tool, featuring a map that zooms in to areas of London exposing areas of prosperity and poverty, from "lowest class, vicious, semi-criminal" to "upper class, wealthy". This site gives you a sense of the proximity of the wealthy to the destitute and provides background for those studying Victorian London.

"CASEBOOK: JACK THE RIPPER" http://www.casebook.org/

Scholarly and not so scholarly articles and information concerning the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888. Sections of note contain official documents, press reports, police reports, testimonies from witnesses. Includes links to Victorian London resources and dissertations on the murderer.

"DICTIONARY OF VICTORIAN LONDON" http://www.victorianlondon.org/

A "dictionary" that explains many features of Victorian life in London. In actuality it is more of an encyclopedia than a dictionary, with articles pertaining to Victorian life rather than definitions of terms. It also has a map of Victorian London that goes through the development of bridges and train terminals during the Victorian age and also highlights the parks, docks, and canals.

"GREENWOOD'S MAP OF LONDON" http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood/home.html (Bath Spa- UK)

An interesting little site that has a map of London from 1827 that can be enlarged and broken into chunks to be individually examined. The map also comes with a handy list of place names that are linked up with the map. If you know the name of a place your are looking for, you can find those places on the map via the "place names" section. The site also has a "history" section with a timeline, links, and suggestions on how to explore using the map.

"A BIOGRAPHY OF QUEEN VICTORIA" http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page118.asp

This is a short biography of Victoria’s life, from the official web site of the British Monarchy. The page also has information on the royal family and their history; as well as excerpts from Victoria’s diary.

"THE VICTORIAN CENSUS PROJECT" (Staffordshire University, UK)

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/vichome.htm

These sources include The nineteenth century census abstracts, Vital registration statistics, The returns of the Poor Law Commissioners, Agricultural Statistics, Crime Statistics, Pigot's and Slater's Topographies of Great Britain and Ireland.

Literature

"E-TEXTS FOR VICTORIANISTS" http://www.victorianprose.org/

Texts by Matthew Arnold, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Carlyle, among others. The E-Texts are in the pdf, txt, and html formats. The site also includes a list of ongoing projects and some more links.

"LITERATURE OF THE VICTORIAN PERIOD" http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/victoria.htm (San Antonio College)

A nice site with pages devoted to many of the major authors of the Victorian period. The page is organized by individual authors and has links to E-texts and biographical materials.

"THE VICTORIAN WOMEN WRITERS PROJECT" http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ (Indiana)

Site at Indiana with texts in HTML and SGML files for use with Panorama under Windows. Also includes many links. A search page is provided for simple and boolean inquiries.

"The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them."

Individual Authors

Matthew Arnold at the Victorian Web  http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/arnold/arnoldov.html

Biographical information as well as a list of works and contextual/historical information.

"The Life and Times of Dion Boucicault" http://www.msu.edu/user/dwyerdav/papers/dion.htm

This site has a timeline of Boucicault’s life, as well as a biography, a short list of bibliographies of Boucicault, and a list of his works.

The Bronte Sisters Web http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bronte.html

This site has many E-texts and a bunch of contextual information as well.

The Robert Browning Multimedia Page http://faculty.stonehill.edu/geverett/rb/rb.htm

This page features html E-texts of several Browning poems, plus E-texts of works by Tennyson, Rosetti, and Hardy as well. The texts have hyperlinks to related images and contextual information.

"The Mona Caird Website"  http://www.spies.com/~tsr/

Many links to Criticism, Links to two E-texts: "The Daughters of Danaus" and "The Sanctuary of Mercy", and a link to a Biography

Lewis Carroll at the Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carroll/carrollov.html

Includes biography, list of works, literary criticism, and contextual information.

Clara Collet at Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/collet/colletov.html

This site has a chronology of her life, contextual information of who she was associated with, and the context of her life in London’s East End during the time of Jack the Ripper.

"Darwin Correspondance Project" http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin/

The letters of Darwin. Has an explanation of historical importance, a list of correspondents, short abstracts of all the letters, and texts of the introduction to each of the 30 volumes of Darwin’s letters that have been published.

"Darwinian Homepage" http://www.interaktv.com/DARWIN/Darwin.html (BiologyBase)

Links to all things Darwinian and evolutionary. Searchable E-text of "the Origin of Species", an essay by the webmaster on evolution, and assorted links.

Online Literature Library- Charles Darwin http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/

"The Dickens Project" http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/index.html (U of California- Santa Cruz)

This seems to be the main Dickens site on the web. The site has a short biography, recommended biographical readings, and links.

Dickens at the Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensov.html

Contains a biography, list of works, literary criticism, and contextual information.

George Eliot http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Eliot.html

Provides links and many E-texts.

"The Gaskell Web" http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Gaskell.html (Nagoya)

Links and many E-texts.

Elizabeth Gaskell at Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/gaskell/gaskellov.html

Includes a biography, links to E-texts, links, and extensive literary criticism.

Elizabeth Gaskell Society http://www.gaskellsociety.cwc.net/

Includes biographical information and links, as well as information on joining the society.

Rudyard Kipling at the Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/kipling/kiplingov.html

Biography, Literary Criticism, and contextual resources.

Thomas Macaulay at Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/authors/macaulay/macaulayov.html (Brown)

This site offers literary criticism concerning his opinions of Spenser, Puritanism, Economics, and on various political and social situations of the Victorian period.

John Ruskin at the Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/ruskinov.html

As with other Victorian Web pages, this site contains biographic information as well as literary criticism and contextual information.

The Tennyson Page http://charon.sfsu.edu/TENNYSON/tennyson.html

Contains some biographical information and E-texts of all the major works.

The H.G. Wells Society http://www.hgwellsusa.50megs.com/

Oscar Wilde at the Victorian Web http://65.107.211.206/victorian/decadence/wilde/wildeov.html

Contains bibliographic information, lists of his works, literary criticism, and social/historical contexts.