Victorian Era

Explore literary treasures from the Romantic and Victorian periods. Discover 1,400 collection items, 171 articles, 25 films, 36 teachers’ notes and more.

A website containing the plays, prose works, poetry, short stories, essays, lectures, and reviews of Oscar Wilde, an Irish born writer and one of the most successful playwrights of the Victorian era.

NINES is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first.

The Rossetti Archive facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in Great Britain.

A brief introduction to what shaped the Victorian Era and made it a unique span of time. It includes information about the Industrial Revolution, the creation of the middle class, and colonialism.

This collection of documents relating to the lives of the Victorians is aimed at any teacher or student engaged in a local study of the Victorian period. The collection includes pictures, drawings, maps, photographs, advertisements, reports, census pages, letters and newspaper extracts. The National Archives also has a website focused on the British Empire.

Victoria Research Web is dedicated to the study of nineteenth century British Literature and is a valuable resource for students, teachers and researchers who maybe studying the period. Links to other Victorian sites can be found here as well as several writings of Victorian women writers.

The Victorian Web presents information and links to resources on literature, culture, and history about the Victorian Age.

The Victorian Women Writer's Project is a collection of lesser-known and prolific British women writers of the 19th century. The website provides access to variety of texts to include poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more.