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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. 

HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. The mission of HathiTrust is to contribute to research, scholarship, and the common good by collaboratively collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge. 

The Houghton Library stewards a world class collection of rare books, manuscripts, archives, photographs, ephemera and other rare and unique materials for the Harvard campus, the Boston-Cambridge metropolitan area, and beyond.

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period includes more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842. Compiled and edited by Stephen Behrendt of the University of Nebraska, the database also offers numerous biographical and critical essays prepared by leading scholars specifically for the project.

The Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry is based on first-hand examination of copies and aims to provide descriptions of all extant editions of all verse in English published for the first time between 1770 and 1835, amounting to approximately 23,000 volumes. 

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Library Hub Discover exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of major UK and Irish libraries. 

Being a check-list of books for children and young people published for their amusement and instruction by John Harris and his son, successors to Elizabeth Newbery, including a list of games and teaching toys. 

Bibliographical text of John Newbery, publisher of children's literature. 

A digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

The Lewis Walpole Library is an internationally recognized research collection in the field of British eighteenth-century studies. Its collection of Walpoliana includes half the traceable volumes from Horace Walpole’s famous library at Strawberry Hill and many letters and other manuscripts by him. The library’s book and manuscript collections, numbering over 32,000 volumes, cover all aspects of eighteenth-century British culture.

This article discusses the characterization of Wheatley's image and poetry in the media.

Founded in 1791, the Massachusetts Historical Society collects millions of rare and unique American documents, artifacts, and national treasures. 

The Rare Books and Special Collections Library at McGill University contains over nine hundred British and American chapbooks published in the 18th and 19th centuries. Through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation, digital facsimiles have been prepared and a virtual collection created.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information innovation since its founding in 1836. The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe. 

The National Library of Scotland is the largest library in Scotland and a research library with important collections in Scottish history, literature, and publishing.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century.

The New York Public Library has been a provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years. 

This site builds upon Timothy Whelan's work as general editor of the eight volumes of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011)

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Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC) is a tool for research supporting a wide variety of disciplines. NSTC includes well-known and obscure works of literature, important translations, legal documents, political pamphlets, medical and scientific monographs, journals, and periodicals, allowing users to build research bibliographies and save them to a personal archive, or print, email or download them. 

The Marguerite Hicks Collection documents the literary production of women, or about women, in the United Kingdom in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, with the strongest holdings for the 17th and 18th centuries. Some American female writers are also represented. 

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a highly dynamic textbase. With about 8 million words of text, it is full of interpretive information on women, writing, and culture. It includes documents on the lives and writing careers of over 1,305 writers, together with a great deal of contextual historical material on relevant subjects, such as the law, economics, science, writing by men, education, medicine, politics.

The Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books has grown to over 80,000 rare and modern children’s books. The collection includes book-related art, literary archives, games and ephemera. Most materials are English-language, with a few exceptions of classics of children’s literature published in original languages, and some foreign language materials.

Online catalogue for University of Oxford libraries with some digital editions.

The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning.