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The primary goal of the Text Creation Partnership is to create standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early printed books. We transcribe and encode the page images of books from ProQuest's Early English Books Online, Gale Cengage's Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Readex's Evans Early American Imprints.This work, and the resulting text files, are jointly funded and owned by more than 150 libraries worldwide. Ultimately, all of the TCP's work will be placed into the public domain for anyone to use.

Montana State University provide this annotated online full-text of Isabella Whitney's verse miscellany, 'A Sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Posy Containing a Hundred and Ten Philosophical Flowers' (1573) compiled by a large team of editorial staff. Whitney's miscellany is regarded as the first publication of secular verse by a women in Renaissance England.

The Edmund Spenser World Bibliography is the largest on-line source of bibliographic information on the poet. For the years that it now covers (1974-2009), it includes 30% more items than the MLA International Bibliography. The website is sponsored by the Department of English & Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Saint Louis University, ©2001-2011.

Gideon O. Burton's searchable website, 'Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric', offers a detailed introduction to an extensive number of rhetorical tropes and schemes, and branches of rhetoric employed first in classical oratory, and subsequently taught in the Inns of Court, universities and grammar schools of Renaissance England. The site features a timeline of rhetorical texts, classical through to Renaissance, some including links to descriptions and outlines of works cited. There is also a useful site search facility which can also be used to search the Web, although searches do bring up some commercial websites.Burton provides a useful introduction to rhetoric for students of classical and Renaissance literature and culture and a very good quick reference source for postgraduates and academics.