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Mrs. Denny - How does British Literature depict women?
(Beginning with Medieval, Anglo Saxon, and Renaissance periods, then comparing with modern works)

This is a 3 min. lecture. If you use it, here's the citation:Women in Literature: Medieval Saint or Sinner: Chaucer's Women. 1996 . Audio.
Discovery Education. Web. 28 January 2013. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>.
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Shmoop has info & resources: The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Sir Gawain, Samuel Beckett, Chaucer, Joseph Conrad, Roald Dahl, & MUCH more.
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This is Elspeth Green from Education Portal. Watch her. Listen to her. She will help you. I promise.
Click here for a list of all 108 English 101 videos (covers all time periods)
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Online databases, full-text lit, poems, essays, plays, photos, maps, etc. You need a library card # to access the databases.
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Free online lectures and courses from Yale.

The Poetry Foundation
Open Library - one million books available to read online
Literature.org - online text of literature, poetry, etc.
The Literature Network - info on authors, texts of their works, quizzes, & more
Internet Public Library
The Poetry Archive - a wealth of info about poets & poetry.
BBC's Poetry Season - Texts of poems (all time periods), interviews with modern poets.
eChaucer - eChaucer presents a gathering of the essentials for the study of Chaucer in the digital age. The site will be built around a few practical tools, the complete works of Chaucer, a modern English translation, a complete concordance, as well as an image gallery, chronology, and glossary.
Web resources for Brit. Lit. from 1660
Web resources for women Brit. Lit. writers
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Luminarium - tons of resources and links
The Labryinth - Resources for medieval studies - has primary sources, criticisms, images, maps, etc.
Literary Criticism online
Portrayal of Women in Literature
Shakespeare Resource Center
Middle English texts online
Queen Elizabeth's Speech at Tilbury
Click here to read Spencer's "The Faerie Queen" online
The Camelot Project - Arthurian texts, bibliographies, images, etc.
Margery Kempe - 
More Margery Kempe!
Click for a summary of "The Book of Margery Kempe"
Click here to read "The Book of Margery Kempe"
Julian of Norwich
Click here for Norwich's "Revelations of Divine Love"
Click here to read George Ashby's "Complaint of a Prisoner in the Fleet, 1463"
Click here to read "The Dream of the Rood"
Read "A Wife's Lament" online
Read "Elene" online
Read "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" online or download it to your device
Read "Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood - 
Anglo-Saxon Poems online or download to your device

Medievalists.net
English literature - info from Infoplease
Portrayal of Women in British Literature
18th Century England
Poet's Corner - index and links for info about poets & poetry
Click here to read Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"
Web resources for Contemporary British Literature
Modern English Literature - lectures and resources
Britannia.com - all kinds of resources on Brit. Lit. (FYI- some of the links don't work)
Online text of Milton's "Paradise Lost"
The English Renaissance in Context - Includes video tutorials and a database of texts
English Literature - Postmodern to the Present
Literary Resources: Twentieth-Century British, Irish, and Commonwealth - From Rutgers University
20th Century English Poetry
The Modern English Collection - Some works are restricted, others are not.
Virginia Woolf resources

Modern British Writers and Poets:

Click here for a list of contemporary British writers and their works. (From Western Michigan U.)
Click here for web resources for contemporary Brit. Lit.(from UCSB)
Click here for web resources for contemporary British Literature (from Kansas State U.)
RPO (Representative Poetry Online) - Lots of info, texts, criticisms, etc. from the University of Toronto

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

Conrad, Joseph (Heart of Darkness, etc)

Cope, Wendy

Dahl, Roald (Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc)

Eliot, T.S.

Forster, E.M.

Fowles, John Robert

Golding, William (Lord of the Flies, Free Fall)

Greene, Graham

Heaney, Seamus

Hornby, Nick

Hughes, Ted (poet – was married to Sylvia Plath)

Huxley, Aldous (Brave New World)

Ishiguro, Kazuro - yes, he's British! (Remains of the Day, etc.)

Kipling, Rudyard (The Jungle Book, etc.)

Lawrence, D.H. (Sons and Lovers, etc.)

Lessing, Doris

Levy, Andrea (Small Island- great book and BBC miniseries!)

Lewis, C.S. (Chronicles of Narnia and lots of other good works!)

Macauley, Rose (The World My Wilderness)

Maugham, Somerset (Of Human Bondage, The Painted Veil)

McEwan, Ian (Atonement, etc.)

Milne, A.A. (Winnie the Pooh)

Murdoch, Iris

Orwell, George (1984, Animal Farm, etc.)

Powell, Anthony (A Dance to the Music of Time)

Rushdie, Salman (The Satanic Verses, etc.)

Sharp, Evelyn (In Dull Brown)

Tolkien, J.R.R. (Lord of the Rings books)

Waugh, Evelyn (he's a man!)

Weldon, Faye

Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, etc.)
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