British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900 provides an intimate look into the lives and works of Britain’s major writers across two hundred years. From the rise of Charles II to the death of Queen Victoria British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900 contains complete facsimile copies of author manuscripts including poems,plays, and novels, private correspondence, diaries and journals as well as drawings and handwritten notes. The collection traces the development of literary movements from the classicism of Pope and Johnson to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and the gothic novels of the Brontës. Users can search across 400,000 pages by metadata which includes author, named person and title of the work. 

British Literary Manuscripts Online, c.1660-1900 will be followed by British Literary Manuscripts Online: Renaissance and Medieval in late 2009. Both collections will be cross-searchable on the one intuitive and user-friendly interface. Purchase the collections separately or together and access 700 years of British literary manuscripts online.

A sample list of manuscripts included in the collection:

• William Blake's Notebook, 'The Rosetti Manuscript,' with early drafts of the Songs of Experience,The Everlasting Gospel, The Vision of the Last Judgement and The Public Address,
• Samuel Johnson’s journals from travels in Wales and France
• 156 poems of Robert Burns, including the autograph draft of Tam O'Shanter
• A first edition of Gulliver’s Travels with Jonathan Swift's alterations
• Complete manuscript drafts of 12 of Charles Dickens's major novels, including A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, David Copperfield, Hard Times, Little Dorrit and Oliver Twist.
• Complete autograph manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and the first press reviews of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
• Original typescripts of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mrs Arbuthnot (A Woman of No Importance)

Source libraries and collections:

• The British Library
• The Folger Shakespeare Library
• The National Library of  Scotland
• The European Romantic Tradition: The Sir Walter Scott Manuscripts from the National Library of Scotland
• The William Cowper Papers and Other Manuscripts from  Princeton University Library
• Brontë Manuscripts from the Brontë Parsonage Museum and The British Library
• Forster and Dyce Collections from the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum
• The Oscar Wilde Collection from University of  California
• Huntington Library, San Marino, California
  
  
          
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