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Description : "Letters on demonology and witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott" has been published online as part of the Sacred Texts project. It is based on a text published in New York in 1885, which originally appeared between 1829 and 1847. The letters are an interesting commentary on most issues pertaining to witchcraft and demonology in a style typical of the nineteenth century interest in the occult, and other such fascinations with the supernatural. Topics discussed include: the Gods of Valhalla; The Prophetesses of the Germans; fairies; Merlin and Arthur; Reginald Scot; and Isobel Gowdie. It is a curious mix, more of use to the literary historian, or historian interested in the portrayal and representation of witchcraft and demonology, or alternatively those in the field of eighteenth century English Studies. A straightforward site presented as pages of consecutive text.

This section of a website by Scott R. Robinson MFA, Professor of Theatre Arts at Central Washington University, examines costume and fashion through history as an aid to constructing theatrical costumes. The site covers periods from the ancient and Classical world, through medieval times and through to modern western styles ending in the Edwardian era

A bibliographical database of contemporary materials relating to works of fiction published in the British Isles during the early nineteenth century and Regency period. The database covers over 2,000 works by over 900 authors, including the likes of Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott.The database may be searched via a sophisticated search engine, or browsed alphabetically by author, title, or publisher. The results returned provide full bibliographic records for each specific work of fiction, including first edition details and any information about subsequent editions or translations during the period covered.

The Nineteenth Century English Novel Bibliogrpahic Resources webpage is a large bibliography on material published both in book and hypertext format for research in nineteenth-century novels. As well as texts on the internet, there are various websites about authors and literary movements. Beginning in the Romantic period with authors such as Jane Austen, Mary Wollestonecraft, Mary Shelley, William Cowper, William Blake, Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth, the site works its way through the nineteenth-century, the largest section devoted to the Victorian novel.

Sito web parallelo alla serie televisva omonima del canale statunitense via cavo C-Span trasmessa durante il 2002. Il sito contiene brevi biografie e bibliografie di autori americani classici e moderni tra cui William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Edith Wharton, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ayn Rand, Jack Kerouac, Neil Shehan

Scott W. Williams is a Professor of Mathematics at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Under the name 'Big Mouff', he provides links to a number of his web pages relating to black American writers of novels, poetry, and science fiction. These include substantial individual sites on Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Alice Walker and Chester Himes, and more limited pages on other writers such as Lucille Clifton and Audre Lorde

This project aims to recognize and analyse the intellectual legacy of British and Irish authors in the European cultural tradition. It examines the ways in which selected British and Irish writers in various humanistic disciplines have been translated, published, reviewed and discussed in Europe over the last few centuries. The project is being published under the title 'The Athlone Critical Traditions: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe', an open-ended, multi-volume series published by Continuum. Publications are listed from 2003 to the present and deal with the reception of several authors, including: Laurence Sterne; James Joyce; Walter Pater; Ossian and James Macpherson; D. H. Lawence; Sir Walter Scott; Jane Austen; Coleridge; Charles Darwin; Shelley; Byron; H. G. Wells; Jonathan Swift; David Hume; Yeats; and Henry James