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The Library's greatest strength is in its materials focusing on the lives and works of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including original letters and manuscripts, books from the poets' library, all of the first and many successive editions of their poetry, secondary works and criticisms, their poetry set to music, portraits, and memorabilia too numerous to list. The Armstrong Browning Library has become the world's largest collection of materials related to the Brownings.

The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. The main goal of the project is to make texts by pre-Victorian women writers accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship. The website hosts Women Writers Online, a full-text collection of early women's writing in English that contains more than 320 texts published between 1526 and 1850.

This bilingual site features selected Internet resources on primarily Francophone African & Diasporic cultural expression. Here, users can access annotated descriptions of web sites dedicated to literature, theater, music, dance, the visual arts & cinema, as well as sites whose focus is rather the sociocultural context in which such artistic creation occurs. Also featured are links to African/Africana studies programs & resources around the world.

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.

This new bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750," the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Accessible via EBSCO free resources.