19th Century American Literary Figures
&
Literary Texts Online
General/Multi-author Sites
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19th Century American Women Writers Web An excellent resource. Includes sites on individual poets and prose writers; e-texts from various writers; links to 19th c journals and contemporary 19th c. studies journals; and more.
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University of Virginia's collection of literary texts online Includes texts by Henry Adams, Mark Twain, Charles Brockden Brown, R.W. Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis Parkman, and many others
- Additional electronic texts from the University of Virginia Includes many 19th US writers and documents not listed on the site above.
- Native American Lit from NativeWeb
- Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color from U. Minnesota; includes 19th and 20th century African American, Native American, Asian American and Latina authors.
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Includes 52 full-text works and more; from the digital collection of the Schomburg Center library.
- Early American Literature Links
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American Literature and Online Research Includes links for literary criticism, reference works, libraries, and various other materials.
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The
Victorian Web While the focus here is on British Victorian era, there are important connections to the United States to be found. Information on Victorian authors,
art, architecture, design, religion, philosophy, politics, society, science,
and technology.
- "American Authors on the Web," by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Manchester U. The most comprehensive resource on individual writers. Most of the sites listed below came originally from this excellent source. Unfortunately the site lacks annotations, something we hope to provide.
Single Author Sites (arranged chronologically by date of birth of the author) [an additional alphabetical listing is in progress]
- Thomas Paine (1732-1809)
- St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
- Thomas Godfrey (1736-63)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816)
- John Trumbull (1750-1831)
- Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)
- Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
- Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784)
- Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
- Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
- Susanna Rowson (1762-1824)
- William Dunlap (1766-1839)
- Joseph Hopkinson (1770-1842)
- Royall Tyler (1757-1826)
- Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
- James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860)
- Francis Scott Key (1778-1843)
- Washington Irving (1783-1859)
- Samuel Woodworth (1785-1842)
- John James Audubon (1785-1851)
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
- John Howard Payne (1791-1852)
- Seba Smith (1792-1868)
- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
- Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
- James Gates Percival (1795-1856)
- John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870)
- Josiah Warren (1798?-1874)
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
- Lydia Maria Child (1802-80)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64)
- Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-54)
- Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-67)
- William Gilmore Simms (1806-70)
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-93)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)
- Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-84)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49)
- Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809-60)
- Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-85)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94)
- Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-50)
- Horace Greeley (1811-72)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96)
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-82)
- Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1816-78)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)
- Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-81)
- Susan Bogert Warner (1819-85)
- Herman Melville (1819-91)
- James Russel Lowell (1819-91)
- Walt(er) Whitman (1819-92)
- Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
- Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903)
- Frances Jane Crosby (1820-1915)
- F. G. Tuckerman (1821-1873)
- Francis Parkman (1823-93)
- George William Curtis (1824-92)
- Bayard Taylor (1825-78)
- Francis James Child (1825-96)
- Stephen Collins Foster (1826-64)
- Charles Henry Smith (1826-1903)
- Lewis Wallace (1827-1905)
- Anna Bartlett Warner (1827-1915)
- Ellen Gould White (1827-1915)
- Fitz-James O'Brien (c.1828-62)
- Henry Timrod (1828-67)
- Theodore Winthrop (1828-1932)
- Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)
- Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (1830-85)
- John Esten Cooke (1830-86)
- Emily Dickinson (1830-86)
- Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-86)
- Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (1831-85)
- Rebecca Harding Davis (neé Harding) (1831-1910)
- Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831-1917)
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-88)
- Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
- Horatio Alger (1834-99)
- Francis Richard Stockton (1834-1902)
- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-68)
- Susan Coolidge (1835-1905)
- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905)
- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
- Francis Bret(t) Harte (1836-1902)
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
- Marietta Holley (1836-1926)
- Edward Eggleston (1837-1902)
- Joaquin Miller (1837-1913)
- William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
- John Burroughs (1837-1921)
- Edward Payson Roe (1838-88)
- John Hay (1838-1905)
- John Muir (1838-1914)
- Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915)
- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
- Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-94)
- Edward Rowland Sill (1841-87)
- Maria Louise Pool (1841-1898)
- Joaquin Miller (1841?-1913)
- Sidney Lanier (1842-81)
- Bronson Howard (1842-1908)
- William James (1842-1910)
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
- Prentiss Ingraham (1843-1904)
- Henry James (1843-1916)
- John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-90)
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911)
- William Clark Russell (1844-1911)
- George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
- William MaKendree Carleton (1845-1912)
- Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
- Sarah Barnwell Elliott (1848-1928)
- Emma Lazarus (1849-87)
- Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson (1849-96)
- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
- James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
- Frances Burnett (1849-1924)
- James Lane Allen (1849-1925)
- Edward Bellamy (1850-98)
- Eugene Field (1850-95)
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
- Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922)
- Laura Elizabeth Richards (1850-1943)
- Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
- William Crary Brownell (1851-1928)
- Thomas Bird Mosher (1852-1923)
- James Brander Matthews (1852-1929)
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
- Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
- Edwin Charles Markham (1852-1940)
- Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922)
- David Belasco (1853-1931)
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937)
- Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909)
- George Edward Woodberry (1855-1930)
- Harold Frederic (1856-98)
- Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915)
- Booker T. Washington(1856-1915)
- L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
- Frank Harris (1856-1931)
- Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
- Alice Brown (1856-1948)
- Emerson Hough (1857-1923)
- Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929)
- Charles Monroe Sheldon (1857-1946)
- Horace Logo Traubel (1858-1919)
- Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
- James Gibbon Huneker (1860-1921)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
- Harriet Monroe (1860-1936)
- Owen Wister (1860-1938)
- Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
- George Lyman Kittredge (1860-1941)
- Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)
- Bliss Perry (1860-1954)
- Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
- William Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
- O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862-1910)
- Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
- Carolyn Wells (1862-1942)
- Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862-1948)
- Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952)
- Gene Porter (1863-1924)
- Oliver Brooke Herford (1863-1935)
- George Santayana (1863-1952)
- Richard Hovey (1864-1900)
- Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916)
- Paul Elmer More (1864-1937)
- Paul Leicester Ford (1865-1902)
- Irving Babbitt (1865-1933)
- Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936)
- David Graham Phillips (1867-1911)
- Harry Leon Wilson (1867-1939)
- John Livingston Lowes (1867-1945)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
- Eleanor Porter (1868-1920)
- Mary [Hunter] Austin (1868-1934)
- Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
- William Allen White (1868-1944)
- William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1868-1963)
- William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
- Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)
- Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
- Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
- Frank Norris (1870-1902)
- Mary Johnston (1870-1936)
- Alice Caldwell Rice (1870-1942)
- Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
- Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929)
- Jesse Lynch Williams (1871-1929)
- Melville Davisson Post (1871-1930)
- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
- Lola Ridge (1871-1941)
- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
- Winston Churchill (1871-1947)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
- Zane Grey (1872-1939)
- Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944)
- Leonora Speyer (1872-1956)
- Rupert Hughes (1872-1956)
- George Cram Cook (1873-1924)
- Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1873-1935)
- Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
- Willa Cather (1873-1947)
- Joseph Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
- Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1925)
- Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- Anna Hempstead Branch (1874-1937)
- Zana Gale (1874-1938)
- Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945)
This site was created by T.V. Reed as a project of the American Studies program of Washington State University.
Comments, critiques, suggestions to
reedtv@wsu.edu
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