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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

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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Essays Charlotte Brontë: A Wish for Wings Erin Nyborg
Essays Arthurian Afterlives Anna Caughey
Essays 'Drawn out of Freynsh': Malory and His Sources Anna Caughey
Essays Charles Dickens: Master Storyteller Erin Nyborg
Essays Print and Manuscript Anna Caughey
Essays Thomas Malory - An Introduction Anna Caughey
Essays High and Low Culture Abigail Williams
Essays Modernism Rebecca Beasley
Essays Walt Whitman Charlotte Barrett
Essays Gerard Manley Hopkins Charlotte Barrett
Essays Robert Louis Stevenson Charlotte Barrett
Essays Thomas Middleton: No Wit, No Help like a Playwright's Kate O'Connor
Essays Frances Burney: the "Mother of English Fiction" Kate O'Connor
Essays Anne Brontë: the third sister Erin Nyborg
Essays Ben Jonson: Renaissance Playwright, Renaissance Man Kate O'Connor
Essays Who Killed Christopher Marlowe (and Why)? Kate O'Connor
Essays Science and Religion Charlotte Barrett
Essays Spiritualism, Science and Atavism Charlotte Barrett
Essays James Joyce: Here Comes Everybody Cleo Hanaway
Essays Thomas Dekker Kate O'Connor
Essays John Webster: A Darker Playwright for Renaissance England Kate O'Connor
Essays Geoffrey Chaucer: The Father of Modern English? Colleen Curran
Essays Early Modern Drama on the Page and Stage Emma Smith
Essays Shakespeare's Contemporary dramatists Emma Smith
Essays Renaissance Theatre Emma Smith
Essays The World of Writing in the 18th Century Abigail Williams
Essays William Shakespeare Emma Smith