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Information about various authors and their literary works which were inspired by events and people in colonial New England -- among them, Arthur Miller (The Crucible) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlett Letter and "Young Goodman Brown"). The webpage is part of a larger site published and compiled by Margo Burns, who has worked on the University of Virginia Salem witchcraft trials etext project. This site provides hundreds of annotated links to resources on seventeenth century USA. The links are arranged by subject to ease searches and include: archaeological exploration of the period; audio programmes on relevant topics; daily life; images and facsimiles; Native American Indians; and Increase and Cotton Mather. Burns is good when writing in the field of her expertise, which is the Salem trials for witchcraft and there are several good documents on the site.

The Universal Teacher website provides numerous resources for those teaching English literature, language and theatre studies at school and sixth-form levels in the UK. The site is approved by byteachers.com and adheres to the national curriculum as taught and examined. There are good online tutorials for specific texts, grouped according to level, including: Key Stage; GCSE; and A-Level standards. There are also sections for students with special educational needs, and teaching with ITC. Topics covered by tutorials include: researching dialects; language and gender; language change; Shakespeare's plays; Charles Dickens; Jonathan Swift; Arthur Miller; Thomas Hardy; Charlotte Brontë; John Steinbeck; Jane Austen; Geoffrey Chaucer; Ted Hughes; William Blake; Robert Browning; and popular films such as Forrest Gump and Star Wars. The site includes audio files of poetry, and various study guides.