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Alcott, Louisa May
Alcotts and Orchard House
Orchard House was the Alcott family's most permanent home (from 1858 to 1877). Louisa May Alcott wrote her classic work, Little Women, here in 1868 at a "shelf" desk built by her father especially for her. She also set Little Women in this home, causing guests to comment that "a visit to Orchard House is like walking through the book!"
Angelou, Maya
The Academy of American Poets--Maya Angelou
As a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, Maya Angelou continues to travel the world, spreading her legendary wisdom.
Austen, Jane
Jane Austen Information Page
The English author Jane Austen lived from 1775 to 1817. Her novels are highly prized not only for their light irony, humor, and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for their underlying serious qualities.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
geoffreychaucer.org
The purpose of this site is not to duplicate the vast amount of Chaucer material that has appeared on the Internet in the last five years, but to sift and sort.
Dickens, Charles
The Dickens Project
The Dickens Project is sponsored by the University of California.
Survive Dickens' London
Dare you take a tour of Dickensian London? You could meet Mr Micawber, Mr Pickwick or Fagin. Or you might catch smallpox and end up in jail. If you do well, you'll get to meet Charles Dickens.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
An extensive site presented by the University of South Carolina.
Frost, Robert
Modern American Poetry--Robert Frost
Poems by Robert Frost
Gaines, Ernest
Perspectives in American Literature
Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933 on the River Lake plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, the setting for most of his fiction.
Hemingway, Ernest
The Hemingway Resource Center
Explore this site to learn more about Hemingway's adventurous life and his groundbreaking literary work.
Hobbs, Will
Official Website of Will Hobbs
Will Hobbs writes exciting outdoor adventure stories, picture books, and award-winning young adult novels.
Hughes, Langston
The Academy of American Poets--Langston Hughes
Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. (From the Academy of American Poets)
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poe Museum
The Poe Museum provides a retreat into early 19th century Richmond where Edgar Allan Poe lived and worked.
Webliography
A critical guide to electronic resources for Poe research on the World Wide Web and CD-ROM, including electronic texts, HTML-encoded texts, hypertexts, secondary works, commentaries, and indexes.
Sandburg, Carl
Modern American Poetry--Carl Sandburg
This site contains information about this influential, Pulitzer Prize winning 20th century American poet.
Shakespeare, William
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.
Shakespeare Field Trip
Upon completion of this module, students should be able to: Describe Stratford and compare it to their environment, construct a Shakespeare timeline with at least ten important events, list at least three ways Elizabethan speech was different from theirs, describe the Globe and explain why it was reconstructed, discuss the significance of the London plague including conditions during the plague and its relationship to Shakespeare, define sonnet, including an example of one of Shakespeare's sonnets, and access Shakespeare's work online.
Shakespeare's Life and Times
Shakespeare's Life and Times is from Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria: Victoria, BC, by Michael Best. The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to make scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet.
The Shakespeare Mystery
Read about the debates on who Shakespeare actually was.
Teaching Shakespeare
Since 1984, the Folger Shakespeare Library has held eleven Teaching Shakespeare Institutes funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. These Institutes bring together the country's most talented teachers with scholars, master teachers, and actors and offer classroom teachers the opportunity to research in the world's foremost Shakespeare collection.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
This site attempts two things: To be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet and to present new Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
This site has information about the literature the preceded Uncle Tom's Cabin and reactionary works to 1930. By Stephen Railton the University of Virginia
Twain, Mark
Mark Twain in His Times
This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated.
Whitman, Walt
Revising Himself--Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
The publication of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in 1855 was the debut of a masterpiece that shifted the course of American literary history.
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