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The Ins And Outs Of English Studies

The benefits of learning English are never ending. Even a well written book might fall short of listing all of them at the same time. Currently, there are approximately 1.5 billion people in the world that are able to speak in English. It is the most profound and significant language in the world today.

Therefore, besides the English-speaking countries, the other countries as well have made it a default choice of common language. It is simply not just a medium of communication today. It is the bedrock on which nearly all the sectors depend and feed from. Starting from the computer programming languages and different software tools to the most important books in Arts and Technology to guides and user manuals, everything seems to have an inevitable connection with English.

Reasons to learn English Language

Let us have a look at some of the most significant reasons why you should take up English studies.It increases your employment chances – just knowing English opens up a plethora of employment opportunities for you, even if you don’t have any other skills. It is a fundamental prerequisite for most of the employment opportunities. You might say that the world is biased towards English in this regard. But let’s face it: the world cannot do without English at this time. It is the undeclared global language that rules the world.

Even for doing higher studies in science or arts, you would have to inevitably cross paths with English and master it to be successful in your endeavor. English is of paramount importance when it comes to successfully negotiate business transactions and communications across the globe. For successfully accessing the internet, browsing it and harnessing it, a good grasp of English is mandatory.

Immigration benefits: Just having the knowledge of English is a prerequisite for getting into a number of countries including the United States. Without passing the English test, you won’t be allowed to become a citizen at all.

Keeps your brain and memory going.

It has been proven in studies that continuously using English in verbal and written communication significantly activates your brain and keeps it sharp. Even when you are learning English for the first time, your brain works out to acquire the new skill.

English is a a great language for travel and tourism purposes. With basic knowledge of English, you can travel almost all across North America. USA as well as Canada and UK have open doors for you if you can study English and master it.

Higher studies in best school. English is essential if you want to get into some of the best schools in the world like MIT, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, Cambridge etc. If you do not know English, you can still get into one of these, but your job becomes that much more difficult.

Reasons To Study English Major

Simply learning the English language has short term and immediate benefits that can be perceived instantly. However, taking up major in English study is slightly different in terms of the long term benefits and richness or experience it provides. Some of the greatest poets and writers in the history of the world write in English. Taking inspiration from the writings of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Faulkner, Whitman and Milton in your spare time alone, can

fill you up with a profound knowledge of life itself.

The sheer joy that you get out of their writings is incomparable. To succeed in English majors, you may roll up in a school such as Institute of English Studies(IES), Centre of English Studies (COES) etc. Some benefits of English Majors course are encapsulated as follows:

Creativity and Critical thinking: In whatever profession you may be working in, if you have an English majors background, the level of creativity and critical thinking skills are most likely to stand out. You will be better equipped to solve problems creatively in case you are in a technical field. If you are in a much human oriented profession, you would be able to understand the emotional and human side of people easily.

Persuasive powers: An English graduate will definitely have unmatched powers of persuasion when compared with graduates of other fields of study. Students with English Majors background are more aesthetically prepared and stable for making decisions. If there is a situation where they need to acknowledge the alternate viewpoint, they will definitely do that. We can also say that they are better equipped to handle their emotions and egos and prevent them from getting the better of them.

Check our useful sources for English Studies subject:

• • Gateways
    Academic Info Humanities Gateway

    http://www.academicinfo.net/subhum.html

    Backstage

    http://www.backstage.ac.uk/

    a performing arts gateway for the UK – funded as part of the Research Support Libraries Programme

    Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English

    http://www.postcolonialweb.org/index.html

    including Africa, Australia, India and the Caribbean, from George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University

    Dmoz: Open Directory project: Arts

    http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/

    English literature

    http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/literature/index.html

    a guide to resources from the British Library

    Intute: English

    http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=200012

    web resources for English and the online tutorial Internet for English

    Irish Resources in the Humanities

    http://irith.org/irith.service?request=search&subject=literature

    literature

    Literary resources on the Net

    http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

    from Jack Lynch, English department, Rutgers University, Newark . Includes 18th Century, Romantic, 20th Century, Theatre & Drama categories

    Project Crow

    http://www.einet.net/review/48456-731177/Project_CROW_American_Literature_Surveys.htm

    website for American Literature surveys.

    Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in English

    http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3
• • Children`s Literature
    Children’s Literature

    http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=200246

    from English Studies at Intute

    Children’s Literature

    http://www.english1.org.uk/childlit.htm

    from English Teaching in the United Kingdom

    Children’s Literature Collections

    http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/prints_books/childrens_literature/index.html

    from the Victoria and Albert Museum

    Children’s Literature links

    http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/literature/chillit/childlinks/childlinks.html

    from the British Library

    The Children’s Literature Web Guide

    http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

    from the University of Calgary

    International Children’s Digital Library

    http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

    IRSCL

    http://www.irscl.com/

    International Research Society for Children’s Literature

    Kidlit

    http://www.kidlit.co.uk/

    the children’s literature character database

    Looking glass for the mind

    http://content.lib.washington.edu/childrensweb/exhibit.html

    350 years of books for children, from the University of Washington Libraries

    National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature

    http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/ncrcl/affiliationslinks/links/index.html

    links to web sites for children’s literature from NCRCL at the University of Roehampton

    Write4Children

    http://www.winchester.ac.uk/academicdepartments/EnglishCreativeWritingandAmericanStudies/publications/write4children/Pages/Write4Children.aspx

    the International journal for the practice and theories of writing for children and children’s literature, from the University of Winchester
• • Creative writing
    AA Independent Press Guide

    http://www.rimbaud.org.uk/aaipg.html

    detailed listing of over 1,500 small and independent press publishers and magazines in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia

    Creative writing

    http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2742

    from Voice of the Shuttle

    English Pen

    http://www.englishpen.org/

    working to promote literature and human rights

    Jacqui Bennett Writers Bureau (JBWB)

    http://www.jbwb.co.uk/

    information on writers’ markets and writing competitions

    Magazine and E-zines

    http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Magazines_and_E-zines/

    from the Literature section of the Open Directory Project

    Magazines

    http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/magazines/

    from the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre

    Mass Observation Archive

    http://www.massobs.org.uk/index.htm

    recording everyday life in Britain

    NewPages

    http://www.newpages.com/

    information and guides to independent bookstores, publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, newsweeklies and more

    New Writer

    http://www.thenewwriter.com/

    magazine

    New Writing South

    http://www.newwritingsouth.com/home/introduction.php

    aims to create an environment in the south in which creative writers and new writing can flourish

    Poets & Writers

    http://www.pw.org/magazine

    primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers

    Read This magazine

    http://www.readthismagazine.co.uk/_index.htm

    from the University of Edinburgh English Literature Department

    The Short Story

    http://www.theshortstory.org.uk/

    everything you could ever want to know about the short story

    The Society of Authors

    http://www.societyofauthors.org/

    serving the interests of professional writers since 1884

    Tell Tales

    http://www.telltales.co.uk/

    dedicated to promoting and supporting the short story

    Wet Ink

    http://www.wetink.com.au/about.htm

    the magazine of new writing

    Writelink

    http://www.writelink.co.uk/

    many writers, one community

    Writers Services

    http://www.writersservices.com/index.htm

    the website for writers

    writLOUD

    http://www.bbk.ac.uk/writloud/

    monthly readings event showcasing both new writers from Birkbeck’s Creative Writing courses and established authors.

    YouWriteOn

    http://www.youwriteon.com/

    sponsored by the Arts council

    Zines. Fiction. Poetry

    http://www.thescreamonline.com/links/zines.html

    links from theSCREAMonline
• • Criticism, movements and theory
    Introduction to Modern Literary Theory

    http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm

    from Dr Kristi Siegel, Mount Mary College, Milwaukee

    KRiTiK

    http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/

    a public forum on theory, culture and politics from the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Urbana

    Literary theory and cultural studies

    http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/theory.html

    from the Literary Resources on the Net site maintained by Jack Lynch from Rutgers – Newark

    Online Literary Criticism Collection

    http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

    from the Internet Public Library (IPL), can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

    Everything Postmodern

    http://www.ebbflux.com/postmodern/?PHPSESSID=61911d834e2dfe714ccfbffd15a7a3ac

    EP strives to be the most comprehensive guide to postmodern theory on the web
• • Discussion groups
    JISCmail

    http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/index.htm

    national academic mailing list service facilitating discussion, collaboration and communication within the UK academic community and beyond
• • Electronic texts
    Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

    http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

    public domain documents including American and English literature

    Bartleby

    http://www.bartleby.com/

    literature, reference, verse

    Eighteenth century e-texts

    http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/etext.html

    maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers, Newark

    Free Space Comix: the Blog

    http://www.arras.net/weblog/

    the diplomatic wing of Reptilian Neolettrist Graphics and Arras.net

    Gaslight

    http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/

    discussion list which reviews one story a week from the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919

    Internet Archive

    http://www.archive.org/details/texts

    text archive

    Literary Gothic

    http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/title.html

    Marxist Writers

    http://www.marxists.org/archive/index.htm

    a library of the Marxists Internet Archive

    Modern English Collection

    http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html

    contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present

    The Online Books Page

    http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

    over 3000 works of English and American literature – all should be free for personal, noncommercial use.

    Readers’ Almanac

    http://blog.loa.org/

    the official blog of the Library of America

    Situationist International Anthology

    http://www.bopsecrets.org/

    from the Bureau of Public Secrets

    Static

    http://static.londonconsortium.com/index.php

    the online journal from the London Consortium

    William Hone: the Bio-text

    http://www.uab.edu/english/hone/

    a web project by Kyle Grimes at the University of Alabama, Birmingham
• • Individual authors
    African Writers Club

    http://sounds.bl.uk/Browse.aspx?category=Arts-literature-and-performance&collection=African-Writers-Club

    sound archive from the British Library

    The American Authors Collection

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/front-row/american-authors/

    online interviews from BBC Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’

    W.H. Auden Society

    http://audensociety.org/index.html

    Jane Austen Information Page

    http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html#janetoc

    includes all her writings, plus biography and bibliography sections.

    Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts

    http://www.janeausten.ac.uk/index.html

    AHRC funded research project, from the University of Oxford and King’s College London

    Samuel Beckett

    http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/index.html

    Apmonia, from the Modern Word

    The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate

    http://www.wbenjamin.org/walterbenjamin.html

    research resource on his writings and the critical theory

    William Blake Archive

    http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

    sponsored by the Library of Congress

    Links to Chaucer resources

    http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/links.php

    from the New Chaucer Society

    Contemporary Writers in the UK

    http://www.contemporarywriters.com/

    searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth’s most important living writers, from the British Council Arts pages

    David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page

    http://charlesdickenspage.com/index.html

    Foucault.info

    http://foucault.info/documents/

    repository of texts by Michel Foucault

    The Rider Haggard Society

    http://www.riderhaggardsociety.org.uk/

    The Centre for Ibsen Studies

    http://www.hf.uio.no/ibsensenteret/research/links.html

    from the University of Oslo

    James Joyce

    http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/

    the Brazen Head, a James Joyce public house, from the Modern Word

    DHARMA beat: a Jack Kerouac website

    http://www.wordsareimportant.com/dharmabeat.htm

    The Philip Larkin Society

    http://www.philiplarkin.com/

    Wyndham Lewis’s art criticism in The Listener, 1946-1951

    http://www.unirioja.es/listenerartcriticism/

    The Literary Encyclopedia

    http://www.litencyc.com/

    profiles of the lives and works of literary authors.

    Lost titles, forgotten rhymes

    http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/

    how to find a novel, short story, or poem without knowing its title or author, from the Library of Congress

    Thomas Middleton: the collected works

    http://thomasmiddleton.org/index.php

    Citizen Milton

    http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/citizenmilton/

    an exhibition at the Bodleian Library celebrating the quartercentenary of John Milton (1608-1674)

    Darkness Visible

    http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darknessvisible/

    a resource for studying Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ from Christ’s college at Cambridge University

    The New Zealand Literature File

    http://www.nzlf.auckland.ac.nz/

    from the Library at the University of Auckland – includes references to biographical and critical material

    Harold Pinter

    http://www.haroldpinter.org/home/index.shtml

    Thomas Ruggles Pynchon

    http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/index.html

    Spermatikos Logos, from the Modern Word

    Readers’ Almanac

    http://blog.loa.org/

    the official blog of the Library of America

    Walter Scott

    http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/home.html

    from Edinburgh University Library

    Scriptorium

    http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/index.html

    an index of experimental 20th Century writers, from the Modern Word

    Derek Walcott

    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1992/walcott-lecture.html

    Nobel lecture, December 1992

    The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

    http://www.whitmanarchive.org/

    a hypermedia environment for studying the works of this nineteenth-century American poet

    The Oscar Wilde Collection

    http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/

    The International Virginia Woolf Society

    links to Woolf related sites
• • Medical Humanities
    Association for Medical Humanities

    http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/amh/

    from the University of Glasgow

    Centre for Humanities and Health

    https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/chh/

    at Kings College, London

    Centre for Medical Humanities

    http://www.dur.ac.uk/cmh/

    at the University of Durham

    Literature, arts and medicine blog

    http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/blog/

    from the NYU School of Medicine

    Medical humanities: a conversation about the intersection between medicine and the arts

    http://medhum.blogspot.com/%22%3EMedical%20humanities:%C2%A0a%20conversation%20about%20the%20intersection%20between%20medicine%20and%20the%20arts%3C/a%3E%3C/div%3E

    Medical humanities blog

    http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/

    from the BMJ

    Medical Humanities Blog

    http://www.medhumanities.org/

    with links to bibliographies, a lexicon, Who’s Who, and websites

    The Wellcome Library

    http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/

    the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day
• • Literary Prizes
    Costa Book Awards

    http://www.costabookawards.com/

    James Tait Black Memorial Prizes

    http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbinf.htm

    Scotland’s most prestigious and the UK’s oldest literary awards

    The Man Booker Prize

    http://www.themanbookerprize.com/

    celebrating its 40th anniversary

    Nobel Prize in Literature

    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/

    including interviews and lectures

    The Orange Prize for Fiction

    http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/

    The Pulitzer Prizes

    http://www.pulitzer.org/
• • Organisations
    Alliance of Literary Societies

    http://www.allianceofliterarysocieties.org.uk/index.html

    umbrella organisation for literary societies in the UK, formed in 1973 with c125 members

    Arts and Humanities Research Council

    http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/

    supporting research into the arts and humanities

    Association for Scottish Literary Studies

    http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/FrameSet.html

    lists, and links to, articles, essays, conference papers and other material on Scottish literature and language freely available

    British Academy

    http://www.britac.ac.uk/

    the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences

    British Science Fiction Association

    http://www.bsfa.co.uk/

    English Association

    http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/

    for all those interested in English at all levels, from primary to higher education

    English Subject Centre

    http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/

    part of the Higher Education Academy – supports the teaching of English literature, language and creative writing in UK Higher Education

    Institute of English Studies

    http://ies.sas.ac.uk/

    from the School of Advanced Study, University of London

    PALATINE

    http://www.lancs.ac.uk/palatine/

    part of the Higher Education Academy – the subject centre for dance, drama and music

    Society of Authors

    http://www.societyofauthors.org/

    serving the interests of professional writers
• • Poetry
    American Verse Project

    http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/

    a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press, assembling an electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920

    Archive of the Now

    http://www.archiveofthenow.com/

    focuses on innovative poetry being written or performed in Britain, based at the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing at Brunel University

    British Electronic Poetry Centre

    http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/

    from the University of Southampton

    Contemporary Poetics Research Centre

    http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/

    at Birkbeck

    Electronic Poetry Center

    http://epc.buffalo.edu/

    from SUNY, Buffalo

    First World War Poetry Digital Archive

    http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/

    from the University of Oxford

    Forward Arts Foundation

    http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/index.htm

    sponsors of the Forward Poetry Prizes and National Poetry Day

    Lost Poets of the Great War

    http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/index.html

    by Harry Rusche at Emory University

    Modern American Poetry

    http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm

    A Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000) Edited by Cary Nelson

    Naropa Poetics Audio Archive

    http://www.archive.org/details/naropa

    from Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado – readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops by many of the leading figures of the U.S.literary avant-garde

    PennSound: center for programs in contemporary writing

    http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

    Poet in the City

    http://poetinthecity.co.uk/

    committed to attracting new audiences to poetry

    Poetry Book Society

    http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/

    an organisation devoted to developing and maintaining a readership for poetry in the UK

    Poetry Foundation

    http://poetryfoundation.org/index.html

    publisher of Poetry magazine

    Poetry Library

    http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/?flash=yes

    at the South Bank Centre

    Poetry Portal

    http://www.poetry-portal.com/

    your window on the internet poetry world.

    The Poetry Society

    http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/homepage/

    Poets.org

    http://www.poets.org/index.php

    from the Academy of American Poets

    PORES: a journal of poetics research

    http://www.pores.bbk.ac.uk/

    from the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck

    Scottish Poetry Library

    http://www.spl.org.uk/index.html

    founded in 1984 it has a remarkable collection of written works, tapes and videos
• • Reviews
    Book Reviews

    http://www.reviewcentre.com/consumer_reviews16.html

    from the Review Centre

    Guardian Unlimited Books

    http://books.guardian.co.uk/

    book reviews and more

    London Review of Books

    http://tb2tn4ax7t.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&N=100&L=TB2TN4AX7T&S=A_T_B&C=london+review+of+books

    New York Times Books

    http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html

    Times Literary Supplement

    http://tb2tn4ax7t.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&N=100&L=TB2TN4AX7T&S=A_T_B&C=times+lit

    Times Online Book Reviews

    http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/
• • Science fiction
    From Verne to Vonnegut: a century of science fiction

    http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/scifi/index.htm

    exhibition from the University of Delaware Library

    The Locus Index to Science Fiction

    http://www.locusmag.com/index/

    from Charles N Brown and William G Contento

    Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection

    http://lib-edit.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd//

    index to over 60,000 historical and critical items

    Science Fiction Foundation Collection

    http://lib-edit.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd//

    at the University of Liverpool Library, the largest resource of sf-related material in the UK

    Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA)

    http://sfra.org/sfra.html

    oldest professional organization for the study of science fiction and fantasy literature and film

    Sci-Fi Wire

    http://scifiwire.com/index.php

    SF: the ultimate science fiction web guide

    http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/SF-Index.html

    SF site

    http://www.sfsite.com/

    the home page for science fiction and fantasy
• • Shakespeare
    British Shakespeare Association

    http://britishshakespeare.ws/

    Designing Shakespeare

    http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/index.html

    from the AHDS Performing Arts

    Global Shakespeares

    http://globalshakespeares.org/

    The Internet Shakespeare Editions

    http://ise.uvic.ca/index.html

    aim to make available scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare’s plays

    Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet

    http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

    Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)

    http://www.rsc.org.uk/home/default.aspx

    at Stratford-upon-Avon

    Shakespeare

    http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/

    An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio

    The Shakespeare Collection

    http://http//encore.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2971375__Sarden%20shakespeare%20collection__Orightresult__X2?lang=eng&suite=cobalt

    featuring the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works, available from Senate House Library

    Shakespeare Institute

    http://www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/

    at the University of Birmingham

    Shakespeare’s Globe

    http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/

    Talking Hamlet

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/hamlet/

    actors discuss playing Shakespeare’s Dane, from the BBC Archive

    Touchstone

    http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/welcome.html

    a research tool for Shakespeare research in the United Kingdom.

    World Shakespeare Bibliography

    http://https//encore.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2912696

    available from Senate House Library
• • Theatre
    AHDS Performing Arts

    http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/index.htm

    from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Glasgow

    Applied & Interactive Theatre Guide

    http://www.tonisant.com/aitg/

    for those who use theatre techniques for other or more than arts or entertainment purposes, and for those whose theatre styles incorporate other than traditional presentation styles

    The British theatre guide

    http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/

    everything you need to know about theatre in Britain

    The Daily Script

    http://www.dailyscript.com/

    movie scripts and movie screenplays

    Limelight: Internet resources for film and theatre

    http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/limelight/filmandtheatre.html

    from Intute

    London theatre guide

    http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/

    Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design

    http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/motley/index.asp

    from the University of Illinois Library – items from over 150 productions in England & the US, including costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and fabric swatches

    Nick Hern Books

    http://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/index.cfm?nid=home

    specialist publisher of plays, screenplays and theatrebooks

    Oberon Books

    http://www.oberonbooks.com/frameset.htm

    a wide range of theatre titles

    Performing Right Society

    http://www.prs.co.uk/

    Playbill

    http://www.playbill.com/

    serving theatre since 1884

    Puppets online

    http://www.puppeteersuk.com/

    with links to puppetry organisations

    Samuel French

    http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk/

    theatre booksellers, play publishers and leasing agents

    SIBMAS: International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions

    http://www.sibmas.org/idpac/europe/uk.html

    United Kingdom

    The Society for Theatre Research

    http://www.str.org.uk/

    The Stage

    http://www.thestage.co.uk/

    the website for the entertainment industry

    Stage costume

    http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/theatre_performance/features/Costume/index.html

    from the Victoria and Albert Museum

    Stagework

    http://www.stagework.org.uk/

    commissioned by Culture Online, from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and produced in conjunction with the National Theatre

    Theatre Collection

    http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/

    at the University of Bristol

    Theatre Collections Online

    http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/archives-theatre-performance/

    from the Victoria and Albert Museum

    UK Theatre Web (UKTW)

    http://www.uktw.co.uk/

    Westminster Reference Library

    http://www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries/special/perform.cfm

    has a collection of some 8,000 books covering the performing arts

    Whatsonstage

    http://www.whatsonstage.com/

    serving theatregoers since 1996
• • Women
    African American Women Writers of the nineteenth century

    http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

    from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

    British Women, Romantic Poets

    http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/

    1789-1832 an electronic collection of texts from the Shields Library, University of California, Davis

    Cairns Collection of American Women Writers to 1920

    http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cairns/

    from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Chawton House Library

    http://www.chawtonhouse.org/

    holds a unique collection of early women’s writing c. 1600–1830. The website includes full-text access to some of the rarest works in the collection

    A celebration of women writers

    http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

    from Mary and John Mark Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania

    Contemporary Women’s Writing Network

    http://www.cwwn.org.uk/

    a special interest group of the English Association

    The Orlando Project

    http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO/

    a history of women’s writing in the British Isles, from the University of Alberta

    VG: Voices from the Gaps

    http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/

    Women artists and Writers of Color, an international website – from the Department of English, University of Minnesota

    Victorian Women Writers Project

    http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

    from the University of Indiana