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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Some Uncollected Pieces https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Pic-nic Papers https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Love & freindship [sic] and other early works : now first printed from the original ms. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Sense and sensibility https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Northanger abbey, and Persuasion. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Emma https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Pride and Prejudice https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Mansfield park https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Miscellanies. By J. Swift. To which is prefix'd, A complete key to the Tale of a tub. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Shunamite https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Hearing Eighteenth-Century Occasional Poetry by and about Women: Swift and Barbauld https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol1/iss1/6/
eBooks Making Sense of Ker's Dates: The Origins of Beowulf and Palaeographers Francis Leneghan https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
eBooks Beowulf: A Verse Translation with Treasures of the Ancient North (Part 2) Marijane Osborn https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
eBooks Beowulf: A Verse Translation with Treasures of the Ancient North (Part 1) Marijane Osborn https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
eBooks Who's Who and Backstory in Beowulf Bruce Gilchrist https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord////
eBooks Arden of Faversham: Anon (eBook) Anonymous https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/