Library

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use’ - William Dyer

Welcome to the Great Writers Inspire Resources Library. Here, you can search for and access thousands of literary open education resources such as audio and video podcasts, essays, ebooks, images and more. Explore the virtual shelves by searching by keyword in the title, author, and by media type.

If you don’t know where to begin, you can access our writer collections and themed collections for inspiration.

Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks Hannah Hewit: or, the female Crusoe. Being the history of a woman of uncommon, mental, and personal accomplishments; who, ... was cast away in the Grosvenor East-Indiaman: and became for three years the sole inhabitant of an island, in the South S... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4893
eBooks A letter to Lord Onslow: as chairman of the meeting at Epsom, June 18, 1792, convened to address His Majesty on the late proclamation. By Thomas Paine. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3470
eBooks The cure of Saul: A sacred ode. Written by Dr. Brown. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3960
eBooks The natural history of British insects: explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, œconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The w... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4807
eBooks Heads of Mr. Francis's speech, in the House of Commons, on the 7th of May, 1793, on Mr. Grey's motion for a reform in Parliament https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4722
eBooks The pleasures of melancholy. A poem https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4092
eBooks Spanish memoirs: in a series of original letters. Containing the history of Donna Isabella della Villarea, ... Published by the author of Maria, or the generous rustic. In two volumes. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4962
eBooks A wife in the right: a comedy. By Mrs. Griffith. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5110
eBooks A collection of poems on various subjects: By Thomas Ellwood. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3365
eBooks The Quaker; a comic opera: As performed at the Theare-Royal [sic] in Drury-Lane. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4259
eBooks Joanna of Montfaucon: a dramatic romance of the fourteenth century: as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Formed upon the plan of the German drama of Kotzebue: and adapted to the English stage by Richard Cumberland. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4285
eBooks Rewards and Fairies https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3294
eBooks The principles of bridges: containing the mathematical demonstrations of the properties of the arches, the thickness of the piers, the force of the water against them, &c. ... By Cha. Hutton, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4122
eBooks Three dialogues on the amusements of clergymen https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5227
eBooks Poems: by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3794
eBooks The double disappointment: or, the fortune hunters. A comedy in two acts written by a gentleman. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4367
eBooks And what if the Pretender should come?: Or, some considerations of the advantages and real consequences of the Pretender's possessing the crown of Great-Britain. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4315
eBooks The perplexities: a comedy. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4117
eBooks A short account of a late short administration https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3530
eBooks The younger brother: a novel, in three volumes, written by Mr. Dibdin. ... [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5218
eBooks The adventures of Hugh Trevor: By Thomas Holcroft. ... [pt.3] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4451
eBooks Some account of the medicinal water, near Tewkesbury: with thoughts on the use and diseases of the lymphatic glands. In a letter to Edward Johnstone, M.D. ... by James Johnstone, M.D. ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5637
eBooks The Shakspeare gallery, a poem: By Mr. Jerningham. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3480
eBooks The legal means of political reformation: proposed in two small tracts, viz. The first on "Equitable representation," and the legal means of obtaining it. The second on "Annual parliaments, the ancient and most salutary right of the people.". https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5428
eBooks Mary Barton https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3105
eBooks Memoirs of Major-General Heath: Containing anecdotes, details of skirmishes, battles, and other military events, during the American war. Written by himself. Published according to act of Congress. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5509
eBooks Content, a pastoral song: By the late Mr. Cunningham. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3950
eBooks Confessio amantis https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3255
eBooks The shrubs of Parnassus: or, juvenile muse. A collection of songs, and poems. Chiefly pastoral. By W. Hawkins. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5440
eBooks The Roman history: from the foundation of the city of Rome, to the destruction of the western Empire. By Dr. Goldsmith. In two volumes. [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5350
eBooks The tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, ... Written by Richard Savage, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5103
eBooks A sermon preach'd on Sunday May 16th, 1756, at the parish church of St. George's Bloomsbury: occasion'd by the death of the Rev. Mr. Sturges, ... By Thomas Francklin. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4886
eBooks A distinction of orders in the Church defended upon principles of public utility, in a sermon preached in the castle-chapel, Dublin, at the consecration of John Law, D.D. Lord Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, September 21, 1782. By William Paley, https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3965
eBooks A new view of society, or, Essays on the principle of the formation of the human character, and the application of the principle to practice https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3190
eBooks Henry: in four volumes. By the author of Arundel. ... [pt.4] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4968
eBooks Sunday reading. The pilgrims. An allegory https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4194
eBooks The citizen of the world: or letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the east. ... [pt.2] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5323
eBooks The way to plenty: or, the second part of Tom White. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5161
eBooks An epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5169
eBooks A lecture on mimicry: as it was delivered with great applause, at the theatres in Covent-Garden ... To which is added Jerry Sneak's return from the regatta; and a lecture on lectures. By George Saville Carey. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5312
eBooks The speech of R. B. Sheridan: Esq. on summing up the second charge against Warren Hastings, Esq. Before the High Court of Parliament, in Westminster-Hall, Tuesday, June 3, 1788, and three subsequent days. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5479
eBooks A representation to His Majesty, moved in the House of Commons: by the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, and seconded by the Right Honourable William Windham, on Monday, June 14, 1784, and negatived. With a preface and notes. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4126
eBooks Answer of Philip Francis, Esq. to the charge brought against Sir John Clavering, Colonel George Monson, and Mr. Francis: at the bar of the House of Commons, on the fourth of February, 1788; by Sir Elijah Impey, Knight. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4723
eBooks Extract of a letter to a gentleman in Maryland: wherein is demonstrated the extreme wickedness of tolerating the slave trade. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5210
eBooks Curious particulars and genuine anecdotes respecting the late Lord Chesterfield and David Hume, Esq. With a parallel between these celebrated personages. ... To which is added, a short vindication of the Christian cause and character, occasioned b... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4371
eBooks The life of Dr. Oliver Goldsmith: written from personal knowledge, authentic papers, and other indubitable authorities. To which are added, such select observations, from various parts of this writer's works, as may tend to recreate the fancy, imp... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3403
eBooks Remarks on the speech of M. Dupont: made in The National Convention of France, on the subjects of religion and public education. By Hannah More. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4159
eBooks The guardian goddess of health: or, the whole art of preventing and curing diseases; and of enjoying peace and hapiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period of human existence: with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of per... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5679
eBooks A description of the city, college, and cathedral of Winchester: ... The whole illustrated with several curious ... particulars, collected from a manuscript of Anthony Wood, ... https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4408
eBooks The sermons of Mr. Yorick.: [pt.1] https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3781