LangLit WWW

This website represents a crucial resource for any researcher with an interest in the area of nineteenth-century French language and linguistics. Published by the University of Toronto, Langue du XIXe Siècle contains extracts from, amongst others: nineteenth-century dictionaries; grammar manuals; histories; and handbooks of philology and rhetoric.

This Web site, from the Trésor de la langue française au Québec, provides a freely accessible, online database of the linguistic differences throughout the francophone world. Countries and regions featured here include Belgium; Burundi; Louisiana; Morocco; Quebec; and Switzerland. Users may conduct simple or complex searches for particular words, or browse through the region-specific 'dictionaries'.

The goal of this project is to create comprehensive online coverage of the lexicons of the early Germanic languages

Prosody on the Web

Verbix is an independent non-profit organization that aims to promote and protect linguistic diversity. This site contains verb conjugations for hundreds of languages, ranging from national and international languages to regional and even extinct languages

Blog letterario sul mondo vittoriano

The Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen's own hand. Through digital reunification, it is now possible to access, read, and compare high quality images of original manuscripts whose material forms are scattered around the world in libraries and private collections. Unlike the famous printed novels, all published in a short span between 1811 and 1818, these manuscripts trace Jane Austen's development as a writer from childhood to the year of her death; that is, from 1787 (aged 11 or 12) to 1817 (aged 41). Not only do they provide a unique visual record of her imagination from her teenage experiments to her last unfinished writings, these pages represent one of the earliest collections of creative writings in the author's hand to survive for a British novelist.

Hosted by John Mullan, professor of English at University College London, the Guardian's book club examines a book a month, via a weekly column in the Guardian Review, a live Q&A session with the author, and a blog-discussion of the featured novel. Mullan's first three columns discuss the book in question; his final column consists of a selection of your comments from the live event and the blog