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Up one levelBritish and Irish Biographies 1840-1940
The set includes 272 biographical dictionaries, and it contains 1 million biographical entries on 700,000 individuals.
British Culture (1701-1899)
Biography, memoirs, travel, history, philosophy, poetry, and much more can be found in the series entitled British Culture. This set is valuable for research across disciplines in the Humanities.
Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800
Of interest to collectors of Canadiana and of use to students of Canada's social background, Canadian Imprints includes books, leaflets, broadsides, handbills, and some pictorial publications produced in the provinces of Canada. It includes works known to have been produced, whether they are known to survive or not.
Early American Imprints
An attempt to film every extant book, pamphlet, and broadside publication written through 1820, Early American Imprints chronicles the development of American Literature and national life.
Early British Fiction
556 items filmed from the holdings of the British Library and of various libraries in the United States.
Early British Periodicals
Composed of titles published in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the Early British Periodicals series is diverse, and the periodicals provide basic source material for this period in Britain. The subjects treated include politics, economics, philosophy, and the social scene in Britain from the Restoration to the end of the nineteenth century.
Eighteenth-Century Sources for the Study of English Literature and Culture
This set also includes translations from French, German, and other European languages dealing with eighteenth century art, literature, and culture.
English Literary Periodicals Series
This series consists of more than two hundred essay journals, magazines, and reviews. Although called a "literary" series, the collection contains many periodicals written for a broader audience. Among the subjects are social issues, politics, economics, theater, music, history, antiquity, and linguistics. The collection thus presents early and mature ...
Four Centuries of Spanish Drama
Besides the drama itself, also included in this collection are criticisms, treatises, and monographs treating subjects and aspects of Spanish drama. A majority of the plays listed belong to the dramatic production of Spain's nineteenth century, but there are a significant number from Spain's Golden Age as well as modern Spanish, Spanish American, Catalan ...
Manuscripts and Annotated Proofs of the Works of Charles Dickens
This collection includes manuscripts and annotated proofs of some of Dickens' most famous works.
Nineteenth Century American Literature
This collection contains works relating to all aspects of life in the United States published during the 1800's.
Nineteenth Century English and American Drama
While it focuses on the 19th century, this set contains English and American plays and poetry from the 15th century through the early 20th century. Included are English translations of foreign plays, as well as a few foreign plays in their original language.
Poetry in Granger
A microfilmed collection of anthologies listed in the first eleven editions of Granger's index. Includes 150,000 poems from 9747 anthologies.
Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of Books (1600-1811)
Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America is an attempt to gather everything that was written about America between 1600 and 1860, including foreign language titles. Selected Americana is the most complete compilation of this kind to date.
Three Centuries of Drama: 1500-1800
A major contribution to theatre scholarship, Three Centuries of Drama brings together 5600 plays produced in England and America between 1500 and 1800. Including both well-known and little-known plays, this collection is extremely comprehensive.
Tudor Facsimile Texts
Included are facsimile editions of Elizabethan dramatic works. The series was originally published in London between 1907-1914.
Victorian Fiction and Other 19th Century Fiction
Based upon Nineteenth Century Fiction, a bibliography by Michael Sadleir, Victorian Fiction is a varied collection of novels and short stories of the period. Included in the set are works by Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
Wright American Fiction
A unique record of America during its formative years (1774-1900), representing primarily fiction, these books provide an insight on how people lived, what they read, and what they thought about, chronicling the development of American culture.