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Chawton House fosters research and understanding of early women writers, restoring them to their rightful place in the history of English literature and enabling them to speak directly to – and inspire – future generations. The main collection focuses on women’s literature in English during the period 1600-1830, including rare early editions and some unique books.

Children's Literature and Culture catalogues bibliographic data and digitizations of children's books, games, and art from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A comprehensive and chronological bibliography on Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life. 

This collection of children’s books contains about 2,000 items, mainly dating from before 1940. They were built up over a period of time by bequest, donation and purchase and, as such, do not represent any significant individual collection. The titles to 1850 have a detailed listing by the noted children’s book historian Marjorie Moon (1908-1996) which is available to view in the library.

The Digital Miscellanies Index provides a searchable record of the contents of more than 1,750 poetic miscellanies published between 1557 and 1800. It features detailed records for these miscellanies, as well as records for the poems and people featured in them.

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a research performing organisation and national Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) for Ireland’s humanities, cultural heritage, and social sciences data. DRI provides reliable, long-term, sustained digital preservation and access to social and cultural digital data. We make this data openly available in line with the FAIR data principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. Our aim is to safeguard Ireland’s social, cultural, and historical record through active management of digital content over time to ensure that this content remains accessible to researchers, cultural heritage enthusiasts, and members of the public into the future. We support best practice in digital archiving, digital preservation, Open Access, Open Research, and FAIR data sharing. 

African American Women Writers of the 19^th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19^th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.

Evans-TCP is a collection of transcribed, pre-nineteenth century, American imprints. The collection is a collaborative partnership between the TCP, the Readex division of NewsBank, and The American Antiquarian Society (AAS). 

Eighteenth Century Collections Online contains over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) and more than 32 million pages, making ECCO the premier and irreplaceable resource for eighteenth-century research. 

Early English Books Online contains over 132,000 English publications from 1473-1700. Topics include English literature, history, science, and philosophy.

Goucher College Library’s celebration of the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s novel Emma featuring an exhibit, events, and a digital edition of the 1816 Philadelphia Emma, Austen’s first novel published in America.

The 'English Short Title Catalogue' (ESTC) is a comprehensive, international union catalogue listing early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera printed before 1801. It contains catalogue entries for items issued in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. The database contains over 480,000 entries, and represents the holdings of some 2,000 libraries world-wide.

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. The Folger is home to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art.

Catherine Parisian mines an extensive archival record that includes portions of the original manuscript, annotated page proofs, legal records relative to its copyright, and an abundance of letters, to chronicle Cecilia's composition, printing, and publication from its first edition in 1782 to the present-day Oxford World's Classics paperback.

Google Books is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.