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Jane Austen
http://www.austen.com/
The Derbyshire Writers' Guild

Francis Bacon
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/
Luminarium: Sir Francis Bacon

The Bible (Authorized Version, also known as King James Bible)
http://www.biblegateway.com/
BibleGateway.com Offers search facilities for many translations of the Bible
http://tyndalearchive.com/scriptures/index.htm
English Bible Translations Describes the different translations

William Blake
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/main.html?java=yes
The William Blake Archive

Book of Common Prayer
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/
The Book of Common Prayer

Edmund Burke
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/people/burke.htm
Web of English History: Edmund Burke Biography
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/burke/#2
Stanford: Edmund Burke A more philosophical analysis

Robert Burns
http://www.robertburns.org/
Burns Country

Lord Byron
http://www.englishhistory.net/byron.html
Lord Byron

Lewis Carroll
http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/index.html
Lewis Carroll Society

Geoffrey Chaucer
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/
Harvard: Chaucer Covers texts and background information
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm
Luminarium: Geoffrey Chaucer Covers life and works

Winston Churchill
http://www.winstonchurchill.org
The Churchill Centre

Charles Darwin
http://darwin-online.org.uk/
Charles Darwin Online

Charles Dickens
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/index.html
Victorian Web: Charles Dickens

Benjamin Disraeli
http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-...
Number10.gov: Benjamin Disraeli A political view of Disraeli and his career
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/disraeli/index.html
Victorian Web: Benjamin Disraeli A more literary view

John Donne
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/243
Academy of American Poets: John Donne A brief summary with further links
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/index.html
Luminarium: John Donne A more extensive view

George Eliot
http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/eliotg.htm
West Midlands Literary Heritage: George Eliot Profile and links
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/georgeeliot
Warwickshire County Council: George Eliot Particular focus on the George Eliot Collection

T. S. Eliot
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/eliot.htm
Modern American Poetry: T. S. Eliot

Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/index.html
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

Samuel Johnson
http://www.samueljohnsonbirthplace.org.uk/index.asp
Samuel Johnson Birthplace Information about life and works
http://www.samueljohnson.com/index.html
Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page Johnson quotations, including a topical guide

John Keats
http://www.john-keats.com/
John Keats

Abraham Lincoln
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/AbrahamLincoln/
White House: Abraham Lincoln A political view of Lincoln and his career
http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln77.html
Abraham Lincoln Research A general view

Herman Melville
http://www.melville.org/
Herman Melville

John Milton
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/
Luminarium: John Milton

Alexander Pope
http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/pope/popeov.html
Victorian Web: Alexander Pope

William Shakespeare
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/background.html
British Library: Shakespeare in Quarto Extensive background linked to the original quarto texts
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/introsu...
InternetShakespeare Shakespeare's life and times

George Bernard Shaw
http://www.online-literature.com/george_bernard_shaw/
Literature Network: George Bernard Shaw/

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/index.html
Victorian Web: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

David Thoreau
http://www.thoreausociety.org/default.htm
Thoreau Society

Mark Twain
http://www.marktwainhouse.org/man/biography_main.php
Mark Twain House

Virgil
http://www.the-romans.co.uk/virgil.htm
The Romans: Virgil Brief summary with links
http://virgil.org/
Virgil A more scholarly site

Voltaire
http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/www_vf/about_voltaire/biography...
The Voltaire Foundation A good biography
http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/Voltaire.html
The Great Debate: Voltaire Biography with links

Oscar Wilde
http://www.wilde-online.info/
Oscar Wilde

William Wordsworth
http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/history/
Dove Cottage: William Wordsworth

William Butler Yeats
http://www.yeats-sligo.com/html/wbyeats.html
Yeats Society

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BBC - Arts - Poetry - Outloud
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/
Listen to poets performing their own work, including Seamus Heaney, W. H. Auden, Ogden Nash, Ted Hughes, Les Murray, Lord Tennyson, Stevie Smith, and Simon Armitage.

BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/
Listen to interviews from the BBC's archive with actors, architects, broadcasters, cartoonists, composers, dancers, filmmakers, musicians, painters, philosophers, photographers, playwrights, poets, political activists, religious thinkers, scientists, sculptors, sports people, and writers.

Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/
Over 25,000 biographies of influential people past and present are collected here on the US Biography Channel's web page.

British Library Sound Archive
http://sounds.bl.uk/
The Sound Archive holds over a million discs, 185,000 tapes, and many other sound and video recordings. Search the catalogue with entries for almost two and a half million recordings. Also listen to samples online, and see the 'Drama and Literature' and 'Oral History' collections for famous voices.

Historic Figures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
This BBC web page presents biographies of important historical figures.

Historical Voices
http://www.historicalvoices.org/
Historical Voices is one of the first fully functional multimedia libraries available online, with links to collections of sound recordings such as US History and Politics Out Loud, a searchable archive of politically significant sound recordings. Historical voices is housed at Michigan State University.

Internet Poetry Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/
The Internet Poetry Archive website is produced at the University of North Carolina. Listen to recordings of readings by poets such as Seamus Heaney and Margaret Walker.

Internet Public Library - Presidents of the United States
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included.

Listening Booth - The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/361
The poets.org Listening Booth includes audio clips of poems featured in the online poetry exhibits and samples from the Academy's Poetry Audio Archive. Listen to readings of their own work by poets including W. H. Auden, e. e. cummings, Robert Graves, Allen Ginsberg, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, and W. B. Yeats.

Luminarium - Anthology of English Literature
http://www.luminarium.org/
Resources for English literature from 1350 to 1785.

National Portrait Gallery (Australia)
http://www.portrait.gov.au/site/index.php
Since 1998, the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra has been collecting portraits of notable Australians. Search and browse the collection online to view images from the collection, accompanied by biographies of the subjects and links to relevant websites.

National Portrait Gallery (UK)
http://www.npg.org.uk/index.php
The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect images of famous British men and women. Search the collection and view images online.

National Portrait Gallery (USA)
http://www.npg.si.edu/
The National Portrait Gallery houses images of thousands of significant Americans. There are guides to selected highlights from the collection, and portraits of all the presidents in the 'Hall of Presidents'.

OzLife - Australian Biography Index
http://www.nla.gov.au/ozlife/
Hosted by the National Library of Australia, OzLife provides access to the citations of biographical articles in major Australian newspapers. This link no longer works and we are unable to find a suitable alternative.

The Prime Minister's Office
http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-...
Official biographies of British Prime Ministers.

ScreenSound Australia
http://www.nfsa.gov.au/
ScreenSound collects, preserves and shares Australia's audiovisual history. Digital works in the collection are available for online listening. Search the catalogue of the collection which contains items spanning over 100 years of Australia's film, television, radio, and recorded sound heritage.

Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ars/
The Archive houses more than 200,000 recordings. Listen to highlights of the collection at the Soundbytes page. Search the entire collection online.

The Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/
Covers British literature, history, and culture during the age of Victoria, plus relevant material related to both earlier and later periods and comparative materials from countries outside the United Kingdom.

Video Gallery - Famous Speeches - The History Channel
http://www.history.com/video.do?action=home
Go to the site's 'Great Speeches' section where you can access a vast audio and video collection of speeches drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth century. All speeches are downloadable in Real Audio format and are accompanied by a brief biography of the speaker.

The White House - Presidents
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents
Official biographies of American Presidents.