The following are links to literature pages on the Web.
Book Lovers: This site contains an abundance of links to every imaginable book-related site. Fabulous!
Bookwire: This site also has good links to other sites; more important, it links you to lists of the Nobel, Pulitzer, Pen-Faulkner, and other award winners. And not least, it takes you toThe Boston Review of Books and The Hungry Mind Review, among others.
Nimble Books LLC: This site contains book reviews, articles, author biographies, and also information on book-related Usenet groups.
The Literature Network has links to information and e-texts for a large number of authors. A very good resource.
The Word : This site contains a list of links to other book sites, especially on-line journals and reference sources. A very inclusive list.
Literature.org has full and unadridged e-texts of many American and English classics.
Bartleby.com has links to quotations, e-texts, and information on many writers. Great resource!
The following are links to sites which provide assistance with research, paper writing and documentation.
The Internet Public Library: This site contains all sorts of help on writing research papers, documentation, and information on literature, as well as lots of good links to literature sites.
The University of Wisconsin's Page on Documentation Styles: The name says it all.
The following are links to sites which provide information about some of the writers we're reading.
- Diaries, Memoirs, Letters and Reports Along The Trails West
- Luzena Stanley Wilson '49er: Her Memoirs as Taken Down by her Daughter in 1881 is a memoir by a woman who experienced the California Gold Rush firsthand.
- Gold Rush Stories contains links to information about the Alaska Gold Rush.
Following are just a few of the sites containing information about Azar Nafisi and Reading Lolita in Tehran:
- Azar Nafisi's website has lots of information about her life, her books, and links to good readings and her own articles.
- "Misreading Tehran" is an interview with Nafisi about the recent upheavals in Iran.
- Azar Nafisi is an interview with Nafisi about her memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran
For more information on Jane Austen:
- The Jane Austen Information Page is put together by a "group of volunteers," as they call themselves, who maintain the main web page for this site, The Republic of Pemberley. This is a great site, with links to just about anything Jane Austen you can imagine: e-texts of her work, essays about her work, pictures, biographical information, and message boards. If you can't find it here...
- The Jane Austen Society of North America has a website with lots of good links to other Jane Austen info, and, better yet, a list of "Jane-Austen-related Tours." Field trip, anyone?
For more information on Virginia Woolf:
- Virginia Woolf: Critical Assessments has many critical articles on Woolf's work. Very helpful!
- Virginia Woolf on Women and Fiction: An Ongoing Distance Learning Project is a free "class" you can take online; there are discussions and texts, but no tests or grades--a great idea!
- Links to Web Sites on Virginia Woolf will take you to some fascinating information, including a report on her psychiatric history and early issues of her magazine, The Dial.
- Books and Writers's page on Virginia Woolf has a brief biographical sketch and links to several sites of related interest.
Information on Charlotte Perkins Gilman is plentiful. Here are a few good sites:
- Thomson/Gale's information page
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman site, courtesy of Domestic Goddess, is good: good biographical info, and lots of links to articles and essays.
- Books and Writers biography of Gilman
- The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society has a good site with lots of resources.
Information on the Women's Suffrage Movements in England and the United States:
- Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.--Timeline lists all of the important dates, with links to sources with more information.
- Women's History Month has lots of good articles on events and people relating to women's history in the U.S.
- Women in the U.S. Army
- The Susan B. Anthony Center has a great site relating to women's suffrage in the U.S.
- Colorado State University has a great page with links to many important articles on the fight for women's suffrage in the U.S. and England.
Information on Dorothy Parker is abundant. Here are a few of the good sites:
- The Dorothy Parker Society has a great collection of photos of places where Parker hung out in New York and Los Angeles, audios of her reading her poems, and lots of other fun stuff.
- Dorothy Parker Quotes. Dorothy Parker said some of the funniest things ever; this site gives you a few of them.
- Dorothy Parker Rothschild is a brief biography of Parker.
For information on Katherine Mansfield, here are a few good sites:
- Katherine Mansfield: A Brief Biography
- Katherine Mansfield is a good overview of her life and work.
- The Poems of Katherine Mansfield has e-texts of her poetry, as well as a brief biography and some good quotes.
For information on Rebecca West, check these out:
- Featured Author: Rebecca West is a collection of articles put together by the New York Times. You need to register to see them, but registration is free.
- Rebecca West: Biography is a brief biography of West.
- The Paris Review: Rebecca West Interview is one of the classic interviews done with West late in her life, and gives you a sense of who she was and how she thought.
For information on women in genre fiction, here are a couple of good sources:
- Women's Genre Fiction Project is a collection by Emory University which contains e-texts of many works of genre fiction by women and a large number of good articles on the subject. An excellent resource.
- The Reader's Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction is an excellent guide to genre fiction in general, and gives extensive lists of authors and books in various genres, as well as characteristics of each genre.
For information on Agatha Christie, here are just a few of the many sources:
- Agatha Christie: Christie's Life is part of a larger website with tons of info about the author, including pictures, maps, audio, and more.
- Agatha Christie is a brief biography, with a partial list of her books and links to e-texts of two of her novels.
- Agatha Christie has a brief but good biography and an extensive bibiography of works by and about her.
For information on Mary Roberts Rinehart, these links are just a few which offer good information:
- Mary Roberts Rinehart has a brief biography, a partial list of her books, and links to e-texts of many of her novels and short stories.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart is a good article by Michael Grost; it has a list of many of her works, and an overview of the different phases of her career.
- North Side: Mary Roberts Rinehart is a page on the website of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; it is a reproduction of a profile of Rinehart, and give some fascinating trivia about her life.
For more information on Susan Power, here are just a few links:
- Voices From the Gaps has a good page on Power, with a brief biography and excerpts from interviews about her writing.
- http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/97/0310/0310-power.html">"Grass Dancer evokes past, present" is an article on the book from the Princeton Weekly Bulletin.
- Video: This is a YouTube video of Susan Power speaking to high school students about the writing of The Grass Dancer.
For more information on Margaret Atwood, here are just a few of the good links:
- Margaret Atwood's Home Page is Atwood's official page, with good links to biographical information, interviews and more.
- British Council Literature has a good page on Margaret Atwood, with a helpful overview of her work.
- Interview is an interview with Atwood about Alias Grace; very interesting!
For more information on Jennifer Lauck, here are a few good sources:
- Jennifer Lauck's Homepage is Lauck's official homepage, wit links to biographical information and to her blog, "Prolifically Raw."
- Lauck's stepbrother doesn't like Jennifer Lauck's account of her childhood. Remembrance of Things Past is an article on the controversy surrounding Blackbird.