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an independent web resource dedicated to the dissemination of information about literature (fiction, drama and poetry) written by Spanish women. The site is divided into two sections: the first is a 'magazine' that offers regularly updated news of publications by Spanish women, reviews, interviews, events, literary prizes, book fairs and signings. There are links within the magazine to websites of specific publishers and authors where appropriate, and to other websites that may be of interest. The magazine invites and publishes reader comments about its articles, and the user may also access an archive of material. The second section is a unique, extensive index of 20th Century Spanish women writers, offering biographical and bibliographical details.

selection of contemporary literature from Austria, Germany and Switzerland, as well as features on many aspects of the publishing scenes there, portraits of authors and news of forthcoming publications in English translation.

a free full-text ebook, originally published by The University of Georgia Press in 1986. This 190-page book has been placed online by the author, Zohar Shavit of Tel Aviv University. The book explores the historical emergence of our contemporary frameworks of childhood, the adult investments that were then made in these, and the ways in which this complex process might be understood through examining the emergence and development of children's literature in relation to adult literature

Novels-On-Line is an ongoing project making freely accessible full-text transcripts of some of the rarest works in the Chawton House Library collection. These texts, which explore such broad-ranging themes as satire, slavery, marriage, witchcraft and piracy, signal the rich texture and innovative character of women's writing in the period 1600 to 1830. In bringing these little-known novels to a wider audience, it is hoped to stimulate interest in these works amongst a new generation of readers and to encourage critical scholarship of some of the more obscure texts and authors represented in the collection.

Versione online della Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft altrimenti nota come "Otto Klapp" la più importante e completa banca dati bibliografica citazionale (senza full-tex) dedicata alla francesistica ......................................................................................... Facts Size of the database: 94,776 book articles, 14,8961 journal articles, 92,774 monographs and reviews, 1,420 processed periodicals Annual update of the database with approx. 16,000 titles The bibliography is "annotated", i.e. it contains notes including the following information: Notes identifying forewords and epilogues, appendices, bibliographic details, discussions etc. and authors covered, works, topics etc. Three language versions: German, English and French. The years 1956-1990 have been retro-digitised and are available as searchable PDF files.

Booktrust, which runs the translated fiction website, is committed to encouraging people of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy reading. We are proud to be able to expand our work into the world of translated fiction and believe we are well placed to celebrate and broaden readers' awareness of these amazing novels. We also want to support the authors who wrote the books in the first place, and the publishers who have committed themselves to publishing these books in a highly competitive and increasing homogeneous market. Additionally we want to praise the translators - the unsung heroes of contemporary literature - whose intelligence and creativity render into English novels that deserve to be read all over the world.

Created in 1971 by the French Department of Education, The National Centre for the Reproduction of PhD Theses reproduces all authorized French university PhD theses on different material (in paper, microfilm and electronic format).

The Internet Poetry Archive is a multimedia resource that aims to bring contemporary poetry to a larger audience and to offer new ways of teaching and studying such poems. The project contains selected works by: Philip Levine; Robert Pinsky; Yusef Komunyakaa; Margaret Walker; Richard Wilbur; Seamus Heaney; and Czeslaw Milosz. The poems are presented in their original languages as well as in English translation, and are accompanied by authors' comments. Poems and comments are also accessible as audio files, and a critical biography and brief bibliography is provided for each poet

The website, 'Le XIXe siècle électronique' is a gateway to electronic resources useful for the study of 19th century French literature. The site's author, Andrew Oliver, has compiled and offered brief evaluations for a selection of sites related to: Balzac; Stendhal; Hugo; Flaubert; Baudelaire; Rimbaud; Zola; and Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, Madame de Charrière and Madame de Staël.

Companion to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Ken Burns documentary about author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). The site features an interactive scrapbook of writing and artifacts, which was inspired by Twain's own scrapbooks and his invention of a "self-pasting" scrapbook in 1872. Also includes an illustrated timeline, selected writings, a bibliography, links to related sites, and classroom activities.

The Web Site "Scottish Bibliographies Online Catalogue" presents information on and links to the following bibliographies: Bibliography of Scotland (BOS); Bibliography of Scottish Gaelic (BOSG); Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT); Bibliography of the Scots Language (BOSLAN); Union Catalogue of Art Books in Libraries in Scotland (UCABLIS); US and Canadian Newspaper Holdings in Scottish Libraries; Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI); and Scottish Books 1505-1640. As such this is an essential resource for anyone researching or studying Scots language, Scottish history, literature, and culture. It is useful for international scholars wishing to locate particular works or editions of works. The databases can be searched by subject, author or keyword, and there is a facility for a cross search.

The 21 st Century Information Fluency Project (21CIF) began in 2001 when the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy received funds from the US Department of Education to research and develop training in the largely unexplored field of online information literacy. It immediately became clear that the largest needs in this area were for professional development and resources to help educators and students improve their ability to locate, evaluate and use digital information more effectively, efficiently and ethically. That has always been, and remains today, the mission of 21CIF. In 2009, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and the authors of 21CIF agreed to transform this project into a business. All the products and services that were available when this was grant funded remain available today, the vast majority of them for free. Financial support for 21CIF comes through online course fees, face to face workshop fees and product licensing.

Zembla is one of the finest Internet resources devoted to the Russian / American novelist and poet Vladimir Nabokov. It is organised by the library at Pennsylvania State University, and will be of interest to: students; enthusiasts; teachers; and researchers. Resources available here include: extensive biographical information on the author; excerpts from his work (including Nabokov's own readings from his poetry and his novel Pale Fale); detailed critical essays, bibliographies, creative writing based on Nabokov; and news on Nabokov mailing lists, conferences, summer schools, etc. The site also give information relating to the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and its publication 'The Nabokovian

The Furness Shakespeare Library has made available over the internet rare and often first editions of Elizabethan documents contemporary to Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare's own works. By scanning the images of these rare texts, the library hopes to inspire interest and learning through texts most will never have the opportunity to see otherwise. Within this website you can browse by author or text. While some texts are complete others contain title pages or illustrations, or the author's comments. Under ERIC (English Renaissance in Context) there are tutorials designed to assist teachers. The tutorials do not supply answers like study guides, rather they propose important questions about the text and bring up issues to be discussed in class. There are tutorials on "Romeo and Juliet", "Merchant of Venice", "Richard III", "King Lear", and topics about Renaissance publishing and printing.

a free online bibliographic book by librarian Linnea Hendrickson. Her bibliography is annotated, is focussed on the 20th century, and the content can be accessed by a variety of methods including author, subject or theme

Adam Smyth's on-line 'Index of Poetry in Printed Miscellanies, 1640-1682' catalogues 41 poetical miscellanies published during the Civil War and Restoration. Verses are searchable alphabetically by title, first line, last line and author. Description fields also include titles, dates and page references of the miscellanies. The resource compensates for the lack of indices in many of these collections of seventeenth-century verse and provides the opportunity to establish quickly a sense of the predominant themes, topics and verse forms employed by some of the lesser known poets of this period

Joseph Donohue is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has taught dramatic literature since 1971. A theatre historian with special interests in the British and Irish theatre from the late eighteenth century to the present and in the nineteenth-century British music hall, he is the author of Dramatic Character in the English Romantic Age (Princeton, 1970) and Theatre in the Age of Kean (1975), and editor (with Ruth Berggren) of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St. James's Theatre, London, 1895 (Colin Smythe, 1995), which won the 1997 MLA prize for an outstanding scholarly edition and the 1997 Hewitt prize for an outstanding work of theatre history

Schriftstellerinnen der DDR was a senior German seminar held at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1996. This site showcases the results of an undergraduate course project which focussed on the lives of ten East German female authors: Anna Seghers; Christa Wolf; Irmtraud Morgner; Sarah Kirsch; Maxie Wander; Brigitte Reimann; Helga Schubert; Helga Königsdorf; Monika Maron; and Elke Erb

The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction numbers over a thousand titles. Focusing on English writers and imprints, it is unique in its coverage of minor authors writing in this genre and in its holdings of original and subsequent editions of their works. Although its holdings consist mainly of English imprints issued from 1765 to 1830, it also contains American, French, and German editions dating from this time period.