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British and Commonwealth Literary Studies

Microfilm: Eighteenth Century

• Early English Books, 1641-1700
  Microfilm copies of all books and pamphlets printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and English books printed elsewhere including the U.S.--about 80% complete.
• Early English Newspapers
  Microfilm copies of 634 separate titles of 17th and 18th-century British newspapers.
• Edition Corvey: English Language Novels of the 18th & 19th Centuries
  Microfiche edition of the Englischsprachige Literatur portion of the Edition Corvey, collected by Victor Amadeus, the Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenberg (1779-1834).
• The Eighteenth Century: A Microfilm Collection Based on the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue
  Microfilm copies of eighteenth-century materials printed in the British Empire, or printed in English elsewhere in the world from 1701-1800.
• English Cartoons and Satirical Prints, 1320-1832, in the British Museum
  Microfilm copies of 17,400 separate items from the British Museum from 1537 - 1832.
• English Literary Periodicals, 1681-1914
  Microfilm copies of 233 periodicals chosen primarily for their literary emphasis. For indexing of these periodicals online see Index To English Literary Periodicals.
• Goldsmith's-Kress Library of Economic Literature
  Microfilm copies of books, periodicals, and serials from Harvard and the University of London on the literature of economics, social conditions, travel and business from 1468-1850.
• Popular Literature in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain: The Robert White Collection of Chapbooks from the University Library, Newcastle upon Tyne
  Microfilm copies of approximately 2000 chapbooks printed in Britain during the 1700's and early 1800's. Chapbooks were cheap pamphlet-like publications, usually illustrated with one or more rough, often vivid woodcuts. They were produced for England's poorer classes and sold in both urban and rural areas.
• Three Centuries of English and American Plays
  Microprint reproductions of over 4,000 English-language plays published in England from 1516 through 1800 and in America from 1714 through 1830.
• Women Advising Women
  Microfilm of representative women's journals, almanacs, and advice books dating from 1625 -1837, drawn from the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
• Women, Education and Literature: the Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849
  Microfilm copies of literary manuscripts, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers of the author.

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