Fiction
At the Circulating Library: Fiction, 1837-1901 (Troy Bassett, 2007- )
Biographical and bibliographical database covering 15K+ titles by 3K+ authors
British Fiction, 1800-1829 (CEIR, Cardiff U., 2011)
Garside et al. reception database with anecdotes, ads, reviews, library/subscriber logs for 2K+ Romantic novels
Corvey Project (Sheffield Hallam U., 2001)
Intro to the Corvey trove of popular fiction and basic tools for searching collection catalog
Dialect in British Fiction, 1800-1836 (U. of Sheffield, 2015)
Database for studying dialects of English found in 100 early 19c novels
Eighteenth-Century Fiction (ProQuest, 1998)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Early full-text database (pre-Google Books) with 96 British novels from 1700-1780
The English Novel, 1830-1836 (CEIR, Cardiff U., 2006- )
Online sequel to Garside et al.’s OUP bibliography for 1770-1829, listing all known English novels from 1830-36
European Literature, 1790-1840: Corvey Collection (Gale NCCO, 2012)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Full scans of Corvey library’s 9,500 English, French, and German titles, mostly popular novels by/for women
Nineteenth-Century Fiction (ProQuest, 2003)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Early full-text database featuring 250 major British novels published between 1782 and 1903
Poetry and Short Story Reference Center (EBSCO, 2014)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Searchable database with reference tools and full texts of 700K poems and 56K stories
Price One Penny: Cheap Literature, 1837-60 (Marie Léger-St-Jean, 2011- )
Bibliography of and introduction to early Victorian penny fiction; includes full texts of 3 “penny bloods”
Researching Victorian Fiction (Victorian Research Web, ca. 2000)
Sally Mitchell’s bibliography of fiction-related reference tools; created for graduate course at Temple U.
Short Story Index (EBSCO, 2003)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Online version of H.W. Wilson reference index for finding authors, titles, and themes of 150K+ stories
Victorian Short Fiction Project (Brigham Young U., 2007- )
Full texts of stories from 1829-1901 plus extensive background on genre, authors, periodicals, etc.