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The Olive Schreiner Letters Project is funded by the ESRC. It will transcribe, analyse and publish the complete extant Olive Schreiner letters presently in archival locations world-wide. Through this, it will also contribute theoretically and methodologically to the use of letters and other epistolary materials in social science and humanities research. The feminist and socialist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was one of the most important - and radical social commentators of her day.

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.

South African society and its changes over time is of particular interest for sociology and the other social sciences, because it provides a fascinating crucible for exploring the mechanisms of social change, including the eventuation of what became its distinctive overlapping hierarchies of racialised, gendered and classed inequalities, organised around segregation and then institutionalised apartheid. The 'Whites Writing Whiteness' project explores these complex matters concerning social change by focusing on one aspect of this which has been particularly associated with South Africa: it is investigating 'whites writing' and 'writing whiteness' in letter-writing and correspondences from the 1770s to the 1970s, a crucial period in South African history.

Piattaforma digitale realizzata dal Laboratorio di ricerche informatiche sui periodici culturali europei della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Trento che si propone di diffondere anche digitalmente le riviste che hanno avuto importanza nella storia culturale dell'Europa del XX secolo.

Greg Lindahl provides this online database dedicated to sixteenth-century ballads meant to be sung. As well as the plain text database, it features an introductory article on 'The Music of the sixteenth-century Broadside Ballad' and there are also partial transcriptions from some prominent hardcopy collections of broadside ballads including: 'Ballads and Broadsides Chiefly of the Elizabethan Period and Printed in Black Letter Most of Which were Formerly in the Heber Collection and are now in the Library at Britwell Court Buckinghamshire

unique collection of Dickens manuscripts from the Free Library of Philadelphia, original illustrations, autograph letters, and other mementos, which were given to the Free Library by collectors William Elkins and D. Jacques Benoliel.

A website dedicated to the study of the life and work of the foremost Welsh female poet and hymn-writer, Ann Griffiths (1776-1805). The website contains an introduction to her life and work, the text of her hymns and letters with English translations, and online access to digitised versions of a wide cross-section of printed and manuscript material relating to Ann Griffiths. The website is edited by Dr E Wyn James of the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, an acknowledged expert on Ann Griffiths and Welsh hymnology.

Digital resource of archives held at Duke University, Special Collections Library, Durham, North Carolina, USA. This includes the archives of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, and the slave letters of Vilet Lester, Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson.

The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing. All too often, works by women, and resources about women writers, are hard to find. We attempt to provide easy access to available on-line information.

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 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.

Sito web del centro di ricerca fondato dallo Arts and Humanities Research Board nel luglio del 2002 ambisce ad essere un punto di riferimento per i progetti di editoria digitale nel campo delle biografie storiche, corrispondenza, diari e altre opere del periodo tra il 1500 e il 1800