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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Pictures Photograph of Oscar Wilde https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Peacock Skirt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Fitzgeralds' Grave https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures F. Scott Fitzgerald and Wife Zelda https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures F. Scott Fitzgerald https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures 'Tales of the Jazz Age' Illustrated Front Cover https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Wilkie Collins' Grave https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Illustrated Caricature of Wilkie Collins https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Wilkie Collins' Signature https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Illustrated Cover for 'The Woman in White' https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Front Cover for 'The Woman in White' https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Illustrated Frontispiece to 'The Woman in White' https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Wilkie Collins https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Front Cover for Issue 16 of Gulliver's Travels https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Jonathan Swift https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Tale of a Tub - title page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Desperate Man https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Rose https://www.gutenberg.org/
Pictures Second Globe Theatre https://www.gutenberg.org/
Pictures Aphra Behn by John Riley https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Aphra Behn by Mary Beale https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Charlotte Brontë https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Fall of the House of Usher https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/
Pictures The Carpet Merchant - Jean-Léon Gérôme https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Whitby goth couple https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Charles Dickens https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Antique Persian Mashad rug https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Labouring in the Bush https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Beggar's Opera https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Grub street map https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Walt Whitman https://whitmanarchive.org/
Pictures Walt Whitman https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Robert Louis Stevenson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Thomas Middleton 1887 etching https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Wilfred Owen plate from Poems (1920) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures William Blake - Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Sutton Hoo helmet Ian Harvey https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
Pictures Anne Brontë https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Shakespeare's Birthplace2 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Shakespeare's Globe https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Shakespeare's Birthplace https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Jonson 1616 folio Workes title page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Ben Jonson by George Vertue https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Le Morte Darthur first page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Bedivere https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Swan https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions Title Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Dekker his dreame https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures A Map of Lilliput https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Cover https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/