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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks The Journal to Stella https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97s/
eBooks Shakespeare and Music https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35721
Audio Shakespeare Lectures Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser https://archive.org/details/ShakespeareLectures
eBooks 'Spenser, Johnson, and Shakspeare' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks The Preface to Shakespeare https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/preface/
eBooks 'A Talk for Twelfth Night' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/machen/arthur/dog-and-duck/
eBooks On 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/machen/arthur/dog-and-duck/
Audio A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. Sally Bayley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Essays Gothic Elements in 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' Charlotte Barrett
Essays The Celebration of Nature in Victorian Poetry Charlotte Barrett
eBooks Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lang/andrew/shakespeare-bacon-and-the-great-un…
eBooks 'Massinger, Milton, and the Italian Theatre' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks 'Milton' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks 'Masques' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks 'Ben Jonson on Translation' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks 'Ben Jonson, Feltham, and Randolph' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks 'Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks The Preface to Shakespeare https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/preface/
Video Open Yale Courses: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner. Pt 1: Hemingway's 'In Our Time' https://oyc.yale.edu/american-studies/amst-246/lecture-2
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
eBooks Woolf on Behn https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/
Video 'A Dead Silence': Reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park pt2 Richard De Ritter https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/323-a-dead-silence-reading-jane…
Video 'A Dead Silence': Reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park pt1 Richard De Ritter https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/324-a-dead-silence-reading-jane…
Pictures Front Cover for Issue 16 of Gulliver's Travels https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays Jonathan Swift and 'Gulliver's Travels' Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Essays Aphra Behn and Poetic Culture Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Essays Aphra Behn and Political Culture Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Essays Aphra Behn and the Restoration Theatre Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
Essays The Anonymous Jane Austen Kate O'Connor
Essays Why Shakespeare Was Shakespeare Kate O'Connor
Essays A Short Literary History of Vampires Kate O'Connor
Essays Jonathan Swift and 'A Tale of a Tub' Abigail Williams, Kate O'Connor
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
Essays George Eliot and The Influence of Science Charlotte Barrett
Essays George Eliot Charlotte Barrett
eBooks The Sonnets https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/sonnets/
eBooks Modern Fiction https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91c/
eBooks Mrs Dalloway https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91md/