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American Verse Project (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative)
An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

Bartleby.com (Great Books Online)
Perhaps the best free reference site on the Internet--it's got everything, from Bartlett's Quotations to the King James Bible, all in searchable formats. A must!

The Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia)
Source for e-texts, multimedia databases, and lists of other resources.

The Emory Womens Writers Resource Project
A collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century.

The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
Search 20000+ title list or browse by author, title or subject. Includes foreign language titles.

Project Gutenberg
The oldest producer of free electronic books (more than 13.000) on the Internet.

The Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University)
Includes anthologies, broadsides, and volumes of poetry and verse.

Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
A collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.