Literary Studies

Literary Studies is a collection of digitized literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of leading British and American literary figures. Highlights include:

• Holograph copies and early editions of books by George Eliot, including several volumes of the seminal work of English literature Middlemarch
• Autograph manuscript of The Ring and the Book and several early editions of Robert Browning’s poetry
• Personal papers, literary manuscripts and correspondence of Charlotte, Maria and Emily Brontë
• Manuscripts and correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, including early draft versions and corrected proofs of Walden, or Life in the Woods

Authors represented in this collection include:

• Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Brontës
• Robert Browning
• George Eliot
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• Thomas Gray
• Felicia Hemans
• Elizabeth Inchbald
• Geraldine Jewsbury
• Lady Sydney Morgan
• Margaret Oliphant
• Robert Southey and Caroline Bowles
• William Thackeray
• Henry David Thoreau
• Anthony Trollope
• Mary Tighe
• Gothic writers such as Matthew “Monk” Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, and Caroline Lamb
• Popular female fiction writers of the 19th century, including Matilda Betham-Edwards, Florence Marryat, Helen Mathers, Charlotte Riddell, Dora Russell, Adeline Sergeant and Emma Jane Worboise