The Floral Gift: An Illuminated Souvenir (c. 1863)
Rare Book Collection
Wilson Library, UNC-CH
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This Library of Congress classification system holds true for any library in the world using the LC system. For example, English language dictionaries will always be classed in the PEs, General literature in the PNs, British literature in the PRs & American literature in the PSs.

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This is a highly selective guide designed for researchers investigating Nineteenth-Century British Literature and closely related studies, such as Romantic, Victorian, and late Eighteenth-Century Literature. Menu headings (at left) lead to consolidated, detailed information on available print and e-resources. (Researchers of more general literary topics may wish to consult the English & American Literature Subject Guide, which is broader in scope.)

 E-RESOURCES  (Off-campus access to some e-resources is limited to UNC faculty, students, and staff.)

SECONDARY literature online:
ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)
A major index for English language literatures, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies. ABELL indexes monographs, periodical articles, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world. Some full-text, online critical editions of primary texts are available at ABELL via LION (see below). ABELL has been issued annually, beginning in 1920.

PRIMARY texts online:   LION (Literature Online)
LION constitutes a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English language poetry, drama and prose. It is possible to search the full database, to search for authors individually or collectively, or to search by movement, time period, etc. It is also possible to search Individual Collections within LION (e.g., 19th Century Fiction).

PRINT RESOURCES
Victorian Studies: A Research Guide (2nd ed.), by Sharon W. Propas. High Wycombe, England : Rivendale Press, c2006.
Davis Reference DA550 .P76 2006

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1993.
Davis Reference PR468.S6 P66 1993; also, circulating copies in Davis and U.L.

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