English 232: Women and the 18th Century Novel
Professor: Ann Kibbie
Librarian: Joan Campbell 113 Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
Fall 2008
Biographical/Background Information
British prose writers, 1660-1800 Main Ref PR111 .H67 1997.
British women writers, 1700-1850 : an annotated bibliography of their works and works about them. Main Ref PR111 .H67 1997
British women writers : a critical reference guide. Main Ref PR111 .B75 1989
An Encyclopedia of British women writers. Main Ref PR111 .E54 1988
Dictionary of National Biography
The father of all British biographical sources.
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Searchable online version of the four volume encyclopedia.
Oxford English Dictionary
The mother of all historical dictionaries.
See also the Quick Facts page for online reference sources to get quick, authoritative definitions and facts.
Primary Sources
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. A
variety of materials is included from books and broadsides, Bibles,
tract books and sermons to printed ephemera.
Times of London Archive 1785-1985
An exact replica of the Tmes.
Secondary Sources
Finding Books
Bowdoin College Library Catalog
Access to Bowdoin Library's holdings of books, videos, government documents, etc.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. A
variety of materials is included from books and broadsides, Bibles,
tract books and sermons to printed ephemera.
NExpress
Search --and borrow from--the combined collections of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, Williams, Northeastern, Middlebury, and Wellesley for both books and articles. Books arrive from Colby and Bates in two days.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Searchable fulltext of Oxford University press books, most of which we also have in print on the shelves in the library.
- Subject Searching in Bowdoin's Library Catalog: Browse the book shelves online by connecting to a major subject section of the Library. Some examples follow:
Literature And Society Great Britain History 18th Century
Indexes/Databases for Finding Journal Articles
British Periodicals
British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of
hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early
twentieth century.
Historical Abstracts
Index to journal articles on world history (excluding US) covering from 1450-present.
JSTOR
Full text of scholarly journal articles from the 1800s up until about 2003.
MLA International Bibliography
An index to journal articles, books, and chapters in books on literature and film. Many links to the full text of journal articles.
Periodical Archive Online
Full text of journal articles from 1660-2000.
Finding Images
Additional Sources
Citation & Style Guides
Provides links to online guides and call numbers for guides in the library.
See also the Research Guide to English.