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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks Samuel Johnson https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The lives of the most eminent English poets; ... (v.2/4) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The lives of the most eminent English poets; ... (v.4/4) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The lives of the most eminent English poets; ... (v.3/4) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The lives of the most eminent English poets... (v. 1/4) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Beggar's Opera https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Audio Beggar's Opera - Overture (music) Frederick Austin https://archive.org/details/JohnGayTheBeggarsOpera
Other The Beggar's Opera (scores) https://archive.org/details/beggarsoperaasit00austi/page/n6
Essays Arthurian Afterlives Anna Caughey
Essays 'Drawn out of Freynsh': Malory and His Sources Anna Caughey
Pictures Charles Dickens https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays Charles Dickens: Master Storyteller Erin Nyborg
Other Science of Shakespeare (visualisations) Patrick Lockley https://www.flickr.com/photos/76886454@N02/collections/72157629383261896/
Pictures Antique Persian Mashad rug https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Labouring in the Bush https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / illustrated by Gustave Doré [1798] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/coleridge/samuel_taylor/rime/
eBooks Lyrical Ballads, with other poems https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wordsworth/william/lyrical/
eBooks Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97g/
eBooks MacFlecknoe : a poem https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Dunciad https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/pope/alexander/dunciad/
Pictures The Beggar's Opera https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Grub street map https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
eBooks Lady Susan https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93l/
eBooks Northanger Abbey https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93n/
eBooks Sense and sensibility https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93s/
eBooks Pride and prejudice https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93pr/
eBooks Mansfield park https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93m/
eBooks Emma https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93e/
eBooks Persuasion https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93p/
eBooks The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/hamlet/
Essays Print and Manuscript Anna Caughey
Essays Thomas Malory - An Introduction Anna Caughey
Essays High and Low Culture Abigail Williams
Essays Modernism Rebecca Beasley
Video Chaucer Daniel Wakelin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Chaucer Daniel Wakelin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Pictures Walt Whitman https://whitmanarchive.org/
Other Blue Book Copy of Leaves of Grass [1860] https://whitmanarchive.org/published/1860-Blue_book/images/index.html
Pictures Walt Whitman https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pictures Robert Louis Stevenson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays Walt Whitman Charlotte Barrett
Essays Gerard Manley Hopkins Charlotte Barrett
Essays Robert Louis Stevenson Charlotte Barrett
eBooks The works of Thomas Middleton (Vols 1-8) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Pictures Thomas Middleton 1887 etching https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays Thomas Middleton: No Wit, No Help like a Playwright's Kate O'Connor
eBooks The town and country jester; or, a new fund of genuine wit and good humour https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Elegant extracts ... https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Camilla https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burney/fanny/camilla/
eBooks Cecilia https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burney/fanny/cecilia/