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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks Evelina https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burney/fanny/evelina/
eBooks Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay (v. 2) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Essays Frances Burney: the "Mother of English Fiction" Kate O'Connor
eBooks Woman and Labour https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schreiner/olive/woman/
eBooks The Story of an African Farm https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1441
Video Ruffus The Dog - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1998) https://archive.org/details/opensource_movies
Other The uncensored Jane Austen Janet Todd https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-uncensored-jane-austen
Pictures Wilfred Owen plate from Poems (1920) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Other Language menu Fleur Corfield https://store.jisc.ac.uk/resource/7038
Other Writing about poetry Fleur Corfield https://store.jisc.ac.uk/resource/6740
Other Wilfred Owen: The Man and His Poems Fleur Corfield https://store.jisc.ac.uk/resource/7082
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/
Audio Shakespeare and Medieval Romance Helen Cooper https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Pictures Anne Brontë https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays Anne Brontë: the third sister Erin Nyborg
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
Essays Ben Jonson: Renaissance Playwright, Renaissance Man Kate O'Connor
eBooks The Case is Altered https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/jonson/ben/case_is_altered/
eBooks The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/marlowe/christopher/tambur2/
eBooks The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/marlowe/christopher/tambur1/
Essays Who Killed Christopher Marlowe (and Why)? Kate O'Connor
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
eBooks Memories and portraits : memories of himself, selections from his notebook. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Robert Louis Stevenson : his work and his personality https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Audio Anthem for Doomed Youth (readings) https://librivox.org/anthem-for-doomed-youth-by-wilfred-owen/
Audio The Lady’s Dressing Room (reading) https://librivox.org/
Essays Science and Religion Charlotte Barrett
Essays Spiritualism, Science and Atavism Charlotte Barrett
Essays James Joyce: Here Comes Everybody Cleo Hanaway
Video Ezra Pound Rebecca Beasley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Ezra Pound Rebecca Beasley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Pictures Dekker his dreame https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Essays Thomas Dekker Kate O'Connor
Other Charles Dickens audiobooks (Librivox) https://librivox.org/search?title=&author=Charles+Dickens&reader=&keywords=&gen…
eBooks Introductions to Jane Austen https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Other Open Source Shakespeare https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/
eBooks Miscellanies in prose and verse https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Other Course: Milton (Open Yale) John Rogers https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-220
eBooks Poetry in Context: The First World War Poetry Digital Archive (article) Stuart Lee, Katharine Lindsay https://english.heacademy.ac.uk/2016/04/24/magazine-wordplay-issue-2/
Other Course: John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Open University https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…
Other Approaching literature: Reading Great Expectations (course) Open University https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative…