English
Gateways 
Electronic texts Open access repositories Theatre Resources by period Women writers Other sites of interest
Gateways
- Academic Info: English Literature
- British Library Help for Researchers (guides and links to literature in English)
- BUBL: Catalogue of Internet Resources for English Language Research (links ceased to be updated from April 2011)
- English literature resources (Rutgers University Libraries)
- Internet Public Library Literary Criticism (critical and biographical websites about authors and their works)
- Intute: English (links ceased to be updated from July 2011)
- Irish Resources in the Humanities: Literature (a project of the Royal Irish Academy)
- Literary resources on the net
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (in English) (University of California)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures (Other Than English)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory
Electronic texts
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
- Amsterdam University Press Digital Repository
- Bartleby.com (electronic text archive of English and American literature)
- Beowulf: A New Translation For Oral Delivery (University of Wisconsin Digital Collections)
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts (hosted at UCLA)
- Electronic Literature Directory
- First World War Poetry Digital Archive (University of Oxford)
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts (hosted by the University of Pittsburgh)
- HathiTrust (digital library featuring content digitised via the Google Books project and Internet Archive (see links below) initiative)
- International Children's Digital Library
- Internet Archive: Audio Archive (digital scholarly collections featuring freely available audio books and poetry recordings)
- Internet Archive: Open-Access Text Archive (near unrestricted access to digitised books held in a number of international libraries)
- Library of Humanistic Texts (University of Birmingham)
- Middle English Compendium (University of Michigan)
- Middle English texts (from TEAMS : Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
- National Library of Ireland's The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats (online exhibition)
- Online Books Page (hosted by the University of Pennsylvania)
- Oxford Text Archive (Oxford University Computing Services)
- Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classics Site (pdf files of classic works of literature in English)
- Project Gutenberg (US based copyright free ebook collection)
- Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History (Harvard University Library open access collection)
- Shakespeare's complete works (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Sparknotes (free to access online study guides; there is a charge for downloading the printable pdfs)
- University of California Press E-Books Collection
Open access repositories
Theatre
- Brief guide to internet resources in theatre and performance studies
- Intute: Creative and performing arts (links ceased to be updated from July 2011)
- London Theatre Guide
- Lost Plays Database (University of Melbourne; covers the period 1580-1642)
- Theatre Information Group
Resources by period
- Old English pages (Georgetown University)
- Medieval Studies (Stanford University library guide covering research tools, subject bibliography and manuscript guides)
- Nineteenth Century
- Contemporary postcolonial and postimperial literature in English
Women writers
- British Women Romantic Poets 1789-1832
- Corvey Project, Women's Writing 1790-1840
- Emory Women Writers Resource Project
- Orlando Project, British Women Writers
- Victorian Women Writers Project
- Women's Travel Writing 1830-1930
Other sites of interest
- arts-humanities.net (a guide to digital arts and humanities projects)
- Booktrust (UK charity dedicated to the enjoyment of books)
- CLCWeb : comparative literature and culture
- Consciousness, literature and the arts
- David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page
- Dickens Project (University of California)
- Dictionary of the Scots Language
- English PEN (charity promoting literature and human rights)
- Geoffrey Chaucer page
- Institute of English Studies
- Internet for English Tutorial (Intute)
- Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria)
- Leeds Verse Database
- Literary gothic
- Location register of 20th century English literary manuscripts and letters
- Middle English Grammar Project (Universities of Stavanger and Glasgow)
- National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (hosted by the University of Roehampton)
- New Chaucer society
- Poetry library
- Scottish Poetry Library
- Silva rhetoricae : the forest of rhetoric
- Society of Authors (serves the interests of professional writers)
- Story (campaign to celebrate the short story managed by Booktrust)
- UK literary festivals
- William Shakespeare and the Internet
