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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks George Eliot's life as related in her letters and journals (v. 3) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks George Eliot's life as related in her letters and journals (v. 2) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Adam Bede https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks George Eliot https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The lovely lady https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks My skirmish with Jolly Roger : written as an introduction to and a motivation of the Paris edition of Lady Chatterley's lover https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Glad Ghosts https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Some contemporary novelists (men) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Plays of D. H. Lawrence https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The rainbow https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Birds, beasts and flowers https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks David, a Play https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Poems by the Most Eminent Ladies of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol I https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Poems by Eminent Ladies. Vol II https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Audio John Milton Anna Beer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video John Milton Anna Beer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks Our Mutual Friend https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks American notes for general circulation https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks A Tale of Two Cities https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The adventures of Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Garden Party, and other stories https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mansfield/katherine/garden/
eBooks Bliss, and other stories https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mansfield/katherine/bliss/
eBooks Something Childish, and other stories https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mansfield/katherine/something/
eBooks The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The battle of life. With a selection of Christmas carols. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Hard Times https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Some Uncollected Pieces https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Pic-nic Papers https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Love & freindship [sic] and other early works : now first printed from the original ms. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Sense and sensibility https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Northanger abbey, and Persuasion. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Emma https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Pride and Prejudice https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Mansfield park https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Miscellanies. By J. Swift. To which is prefix'd, A complete key to the Tale of a tub. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Shunamite https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
Audio The Lure of the East: the Oriental and Philosophical Tale in Eighteenth-Century England Ros Ballaster https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Only Collect: An Introduction to the World of the Poetic Miscellany Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Only Collect: An Introduction to the World of the Poetic Miscellany Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks Hearing Eighteenth-Century Occasional Poetry by and about Women: Swift and Barbauld https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol1/iss1/6/
Essays Renaissance Theatre Emma Smith
Audio "Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation Michèle Roberts https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why Dickens? Robert Douglas-Fairhurst https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Essays The World of Writing in the 18th Century Abigail Williams
Essays William Shakespeare Emma Smith
Audio DH Lawrence 5. The Alps Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video DH Lawrence 5. The Alps Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video DH Lawrence 4. The World at Large Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio DH Lawrence 4. The World at Large Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/