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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.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

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.

London Metropolitan Archives is a public research centre which specialises in the history of London, with access to the historical archives of businesses, schools, hospitals, charities and all manner of other organisations from the London area.

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

Bibliography of Mary Cooper's titles from a dissertation by Beverly Elaine Schneller.

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.