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United Kingdom: Language and Literature: General Resources

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Booktrust
Lists organizations, prizes and awards, current events, and publishing information related to books and literature.
British and Irish Authors on the Web
Listed chronologically by author's birth date with links to individual author's home pages, author societies, and full-text materials.
British Council
A collection of Web sites providing information about UK and Commonwealth books, authors, literary and creative writing courses, etc. Includes hundreds of links organized by such categories as playwriting, poetry, teaching, organizations, and prizes.
Contemporary Writers
Biographies, bibliographies, photographs, reviews, and prizes for prominent living writers of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries
English, Scottish and Irish Literature
From BUBL Link (a service of the University of Strathclyde), one of the most comprehensive UK-based catalogs of Internet resources with this select list of literature links.
Languages of the United Kingdom (from Ethnologue)
Entry from an online reference guide to world languages.
Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
Extensive starting point for researching English (and American) literature with links by time period (Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian, 20th Century) and topic (Theatre and Drama, Theory, Bibliography). Also searchable for individual authors.
Location Register of 20th Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters
From the University of Reading, an online register of manuscript locations searchable by author, title of work, or words/phrases.
Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu)
Extensive collection of resources in the humanities with links to a wide range of scholarly literature sites such as Romantic Circles, the Victorian Web, Luminarium, as well as to individual authors.

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