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Biography
Resource Center
Biographical information throughout history, around the world, and across
all disciplines and subject areas.
European Writers.
Jackson, William T.H., editor, George Stade, editor in chief. New York : Scribner,
1983-1991.
Ref PN 501 +E9 1983
This series is a collection of fairly extensive essays, with bibliographies,
about major European authors from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century.
Gale
Literary Databases
Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC
Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), which can be searched
together or separately. Altogether nearly 100,000 authors are covered, with
information on their lives and works along with critical reaction to their
works.
Oxford
Classical Dictionary
Reference work on the Greco-Roman world covering literature, art, philosophy,
law, biography, mythology, science, geography, daily life, and broad cultural
and historical trends.
Studies
in Irish literature
Dictionary of Irish Literature, Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook,
and Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995
World Biographical Archive online World Biographical Index
Online Biographical Dictionaries
African American authors, 1745-1945
BIO BASE.
Now available through World
Biographical Index
A general biographical database listing articles on notable
people.
Biography
and Genealogy Master Index
Ref Z5305 U5 +B56 1980
Ref Z5305 U5 +B562 (LC)
This is a comprehensive index to biographical sketches
in almost 3000 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference
books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
Biography
Index.
Ref Z5301 B56 (LC). This is a cumulative index to biographical information
in books and magazines. The online version goes back to 1984. Print volumes
cover 1946 to the present.
European Writers.
Ref PN 501 +E9 1983 This series is a collection of fairly extensive
essays, with bibliographies, about major European authors from the Middle
Ages to the 20th Century.
Guide to the Sources of Medieval History Caenegem, R. C. van. Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland Pub. Co., 1978. Ref D77 C2213 A sourcebook with a long list of biographical sources classified by country. A newer edition (1997) in French is available at the Divinity Library, D117 C2214 (LC).
World
Biographical Index (Internationaler biographischer Index)
Compilation of nine of the national biographical archive indexes in K.G. Saur's
biographical series.
Indexes to Plays and Short Stories
American Drama
Black Drama
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
English Prose Drama
English Verse Drama
International Index to the Performing Arts
Inter-Play
Lit Finder
Literature Online with MLA
North American Theatre Online
North American Women's Drama
Short Story Index
Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro
Twentieth Century Drama
Twentieth Century North American Drama
W. B. Yeats Collection (1885-1995)
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Alex:
A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
(North Carolina State University)
A small number of texts in German by Luther, Marx, and Schiller, as well as
the Eberfelder bible translation, are included. Translations into English
of other major German language authors. Browse the catalog by language or
search for a particular writer.
Bible
In English
Twenty-one different versions of the English Bible
Digital
Library of Classic Protestant Texts
1,500 works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras for historians,
theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious
and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Eighteenth
Century Collections Online
Digital images of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text
searching, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical
information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts,
science.
Electronic
Text Collections in Western European Literature (WESS)
European language text collections on the Internet; most, but not all, are
freely accessible.
Gutenberg-e
Africa, colonial Latin America, and South Asia, Europe before 1800, Military
history and history of foreign relations.
NetLibrary
Scholarly monographs from university presses or other academic publishers
and titles in the public domain (i.e.- out of copyright).
Online
Texts (Internet Public Library Reading Room)
Mostly English language works, with some English translations of foreign works.
Scroll down to the Dewey Category 800 for Literature and Rhetoric and select
a language, or search by author.
Online
Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
Mostly works in English, but some interesting multilingual titles such as
Struwwelpeter (German, French and English). Browse by subject, author, or
title. This site works with well established criteria
for selection of online texts.
Perseus
Project
Sources and studies on Ancient Greece & Rome including primary texts such
as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Apollodorus, the Library, and Aeschylus. Also
includes non-classical texts.
Twentieth
Century Drama
Plays in English from around the world from the 1890s to 2003.
Women
Writers Online
Electronic texts of the Brown University Women Writers Project, covering a
period from 1400 to 1850. This collection includes the texts which appear
in the Renaissance Women Online site.
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