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George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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Jane Austen:
 Jane Austen (from Matsuoka page)
 Jane Austen Information Page (lots of e-texts)
 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice -- Notes on Education, Marriage, Status of Women, etc

Ann Bronte:
The Bronte Archives

Charlotte Bronte:
The Bronte Archives
Bibliographic Resources on Charlotte Bronte extensive listing of secondary critical literature (Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt U)
Charlotte Brontë An Overview (Brown U- earlier version?)
Life of Charlotte Bronte (Elizabeth Gaskell)

Wilkie Collins:
Wilkie Collins in Paul Lewis home pages
Wilkie Collins (Matsuoka's comprehensive list of web pages)
Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page (David R. Grigg)
Victorian Sensationalism Online - Primarily about Collins (Andrew MacTavish, U Alberta)
Wilkie Collins extensive listing of secondary critical literature (Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt U)

Charles Dickens:
The Dickens Information Page (Mitusharu Matsuoka):  the most extensive listing of Dickens sites on the web.
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page:  less ambitious in scale, but contains a judiciously chosen list of sites, a biography, a bibliography, a timeline, and other useful commentary.  Very stylish.
Charles Dickens- extensive biography and bibliography
 Charles Dickens: An extensive listing of good scholarly criticism on Dickens (Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt U)
Charles Dickens Overview- fr Brown's Vict Web overview: Excellent contextualization of Dickens's relationship to the Victorian period and to Victorian social and aesthetic concerns.  Includes:

• Dickens and Social Class (Humphrey House quotation)
• Dickens Wrote for Money!
• The Unforgettable Characters of Dickens (critical reception in Blackwood's)
• Dickens, Carlyle, and the Grotesque (cartoonishness)
• Dickens and Religion
• Biographical Information

• On Orwell on Dickens: on Dickens's social criticism
• George Orwell- why should anyone care about Dickens?
• George Giissing, Charles Dickens:  A Study :  Chapter I ("His Times"- good background on Victorian period), Chapter IV ("Art, Veracity and Moral Purpose" in Dickens),  Chapter V (on Dickens's 'unreal' characters), Chapter VII (Dickens on women and children),  Chapter X ("The Radical"- Dickens's political affiliations, causes).

George Eliot:
 George Eliot (Marian Evans Cross) (1819-1880) Matsuoka site
 George Eliot's Biography- Miiddlemarch
 George Eliot on phrenology, Dickens
 George Eliot extensive listing of secondary critical literature (Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt U)
 "George Eliot" criticism by Virginia Woolf (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)

Thomas Hardy:
 Thomas Hardy Page  (U. Minnesota English Dept.)

William Makepeace Thackeray:
 William Makepeace Thackeray (Matsuoka)
 William Makepeace Thackeray extensive listing of secondary critical literature (Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt U)

Other Authors of Interest:
  Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Gaskell Page
  Elizabeth Gaskell extensive listing of secondary critical literature (Jay Clayton)
 

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