Nineteenth Century Digital Archives / Collections

Digital Mitford: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive

Digital Mitford runs an annual Coding School for individuals new to TEI encoding. Digital Mitford provided a model for the design of this edition.

Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition

The Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition, edited by Kathryn Sutherland in 2010, offers diplomatic transcriptions and high-resolution page images of "some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen's own hand" in a digital format.

BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History

BRANCH offers "a free, expansive, searchable, reliable, peer-reviewed, copy-edited, easy-to-use overview of the period 1775-1925".

NINES: Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online

NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) is a community of scholars "devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first" through a combination of peer-review of digital scholarship, digital research materials, and software tools.

Victorian Britain at the British Library

Victorian Britain at the British Library is an online resource which offers teaching resources, expert articles, and many original documentary sources such as news articles, advertisements and diary entries. Exploring these resources offers a glimpse into the way life was in Victorian Britain.

The Victorian Women Writers Project

The Victorian Women Writers Project is based at Indiana University, and "is primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century." The project uses TEI encoding to produce a variety of literary and documentary resources.

The Rossetti Archive

The Archive, edited by Jerome McGann and completed in 2008 "provides students and scholars with access to all of DGR's pictorial and textual works and to a large contextual corpus of materials... All documents are encoded for structured search and analysis."

Digital Dinah Craik

Digital Dinah Craik is a Digital Humanities project at the University of Calgary, which aims " to transcribe, encode, and annotate more than 1000 manuscript letters according to the standards of the TEI Text Encoding Initiative in XML." The project will create "the first Digital Edition of the correspondence of the bestselling Victorian novelist, Dinah Mullock Craik."

The Victorian Web

The Victorian Web is a long-standing Victorian resource (since 1994), which brings together images and documents in a unique format that emphasizes networks and connection.

Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition

The NCSE is an online collection of six nineteenth century periodicals and newspapers. The Edition offers facsimile images and transcriptions.

Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence

The Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence "is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century — reconstructing one of the world's great historical 'conversations'."

COVE: The Central Online Victorian Educator

COVE is "a scholar-driven open-access platform that publishes peer-reviewed Victorian material. It is maintained and supported by NAVSA, BAVSA, AVSA and a number of independent institutions." Materials offered by COVE are open-access, but there is a fee for use.

Note: The above list is incomplete, and will be updated as I locate further archives and collections. If you would like to suggest an archive / digital resource for inclusion, please email me at klamerme@msu.edu.