Academic observation of the day
Generally speaking, it is easier to write an article of the appropriate length than it is to edit an article of, oh, 11000+ words down to something resembling a not altogether inappropriate length.
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- South Seas - Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific
Victorian Studies
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- 19th Century London Stage
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- Aggravating Ladies: Being a List of Works Published under the Pseudonym "By a Lady" (1880)
- Annotated Bibliography of Chartism
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- Aspects of the Victorian Book
- At the Circulating Library
- Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies
- Color Printing: Introduction
- Dictionary of Victorian London - Victorian History - 19th Century London - Social History
- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
- E-Texts for Victorianists
- Ellen Terry
- Factory Girls and Serving Maids: Victorian Working-Class Women Poets Archive
- Guide to 19th-Century Pamphlets
- Michael R Booth Theatre Collection
- Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
- New Books in 19th Century British Studies
- Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
- Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks
- Nineteenth-Century Studies: Resources for an Interdisciplinary Curriculum
- PeoplePlay UK - 19th Century Drama
- Photographs of the Roxburghe Club, 1892
- R. M. Phillips Collection (Victorian Postage Stamps)
- RaVoN (Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net)
- Shakespeare and the Players
- Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the US & UK, 1815-1914
- The 1890s Hypermedia Archive
- The Adelphi Theatre Project
- The British Empire
- The City of the Jugglers
- The Darwin Correspondence Online Database
- The Golden Age of British Theatre
- The Hockliffe Project
- The Hyperlinked & Searchable Chambers' 1869 'The Book of Days'
- The John Murray Archive
- The London Stage 1800-1900 A Documentary Record and Calendar of Performances
- The Victorian Church
- The Victorian Plays Project
- The Victorian Sonnet
- The Victorian Web: An Overview
- The Victorian Women Writers Project
- The Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project
- Undergraduate Victorian Studies Online Teaching Anthology
- Victoria Research Web
- Victoria Research Web
- Victorian and Edwardian Collection (Launceston Reference Library)
- Victorian Bibliography Online
- Victorian Bookbinding (North Texas)
- Victorian Census Project
- Victorian Popular Novels
- Victorian Sensationalism Online
- Victorian Turkish Baths
- Victorian Web Sites
- Victorian Women Writers - A Guide to E-Texts
- Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
- Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
- Women in the Literary Marketplace
- Workhouse - The Story of Workhouses
Romanticism
- Lay of the Last Minstrel
- Romantic-Era Songs
- The Journal of John Waldie Theatre Commentaries, 1799 - 1830
- Playbills from Edinburghs Theatre Royal
- THEA: The Haunted Curtain - Gothic Drama in the Romantic Age - Virtual Archive
- Romantics Unbound
- Revolution and Romanticism
- British Women Playwrights around 1800
- British Women Romantic Poets Project
- Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project
- RC Blog
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
- Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers
- Athenaeum Index: 1872-1886
- Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine
- Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine
- Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845
- British Newspapers 1800-1900
- British periodicals at Minnesota
- CWC Database (Missionary Periodicals)
- Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive
- Galactic Central (Database of Fiction Magazines)
- Girl's Own Paper
- Godey's Lady's Book
- Ilustrated London News
- Internet Library of Early Journals
- Making of America Journals
- Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read: Magazines
- Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition
- Peeps into the Past
- Penny Magazine Online Home Page
- QR Electronic Texts (Quarterly Review)
- The Belfast Newsletter Index
- The Bijou Gift Book for 1828
- The Curran Index to Wellesley Index Revisions
- The Ladies
- The Occident and American Jewish Advocate
- The Quarterly Review Archive
- The Spectator Text Project
- UB Bielefeld: Zeitschriften der Aufklärung
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- A Database of the Correspondence of James Currie (1756-1805)
- A Thin Ghost (M. R. James)
- Amelia Alderson Opie Archive
- Anthony Trollope (Ellen Moody)
- Anthony Trollope Page
- Arthur Symons (1865-1945)
- Byronmania
- Charles Booth Online Archive
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Lever
- Charles Reade (1814-1884)
- Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Charlotte Mew
- Charlotte Smith
- Classical Allusions in Trollope's Barsetshire Novels
- Gaskell Society
- George Eliot
- George Eliot: Home Page - Warwickshire Web
- Gerard Hopkins - literary links
- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
- Gissing in Cyberspace
- Grace Aguilar
- Henry Irving Correspondence
- Hobby-O - Diary (The Diary of John Cam Hobhouse, edited by Peter Cochran)
- Introduction to Kingsley (Charles Kingsley bibliography)
- J. E. Preston Muddock ("Dick Donovan")
- James Hogg: Research
- James Robinson Planche
- John Clare Page
- John Keats
- John Snow
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- Leigh Hunt Online: The Letters (University of Iowa)
- Lewis Carroll
- Lewis Carroll Scrapbook
- Mary and Charles Lamb
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon Pages
- Mary Shelley's Life of William Godwin (SETIS)
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Millgate Union Catalogue of Walter Scott Correspondence - National Library of Scotland
- Mrs. (Mary Augusta) Humphry Ward
- Newman Reader - Works of John Henry Newman
- Oscar Wilde Homepage
- Our Mutual Friend: Clarendon Edition
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Database
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Rosamund Marriott Watson
- Samuel Johnson Letters: Guide
- Samuel Pepys Home Page
- Sherlock Holmes on the Web
- Stanley John Weyman
- Susan Burney Letters Project
- Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
- The Alfred Russel Wallace Page
- The Anna Laetitia Barbauld Web Site
- The Bronte Sisters Web
- The Browning Multimedia Page
- The Carlyles
- The Collected Letters of Robert Southey
- The complete work of Charles Darwin
- The Dickens Page: Charles Dickens (1812-70)
- The Dickens Project
- The Edgeworths
- The Ellen Wood Website
- The Fiction of Wilkie Collins
- The Gaskell Web: Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65)
- The George Gissing Website
- The Golden Key: George MacDonald
- The Huxley File
- The John Addington Symonds Pages
- The Matthew Prior Project
- The Robert Bloomfield Society
- The Rossetti Archive
- The Ruskin Centre
- The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
- The Swinburne Project
- The Thomas Gray Archive
- The Thomas Hardy Association
- The Thomas Love Peacock Society
- The W.T. Stead Resource Site
- The Wordsworth Trust
- Thomas Hardy's Library
- Walter Scott Digital Archive
- William Blake Archive
- William Hone
- William Morris Society
- William Sharp/"Fiona MacLeod" Archives
- Wordsworth Variorum Archive
Fiction
- Chawton House Library: Novels-On-Line
- Beyond Renault: Alexander the Great in fiction 1920 - Present
- Frankenstein Collation (1818 and 1831 editions)
- Nineteenth Century Novels Home Page
- Early American Fiction, 1789-1875
- Romantic Prose Fiction
- Crime Thru Time
- The Detective and the Toga
- HistFiction.net
- The Historical Novel Society: The Place for New Historical Fiction, The Historical Novel Society: The Place for New Historical Fiction
- Women's Genre Fiction
- IU Lilly Library Chapbook collection
- CHILDE project - Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe
- The Novel in Europe, 1670-1730
- Text in Transit
- KidPrint
- The English Novel, 1830-36
- Historische Romane über das alte Rom
- Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America
- The Baldwin Project (children's fiction)
- British Fiction 1800-1829
- Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
- Tartarus Press Supernatural Fiction Database
- Crimeculture
- Penny Dreadfuls
- The Street & Smith Dime Collection (Syracuse University)
- Gothic Labyrinth
- House of Beadle and Adams (Dime Novels)
- Children's Literature Collection (University of Surrey Roehampton)
- British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index
- The Gothic Literature Page
- Early Canadiana Online
- Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
- Literature for Children
- Uchronia: The Alternate History List
- Projekt "Historischer Roman" (German Historical Novels Project)
- The Literary Gothic
- HorrorMasters
- Gaslight
- Ghost Story Writers
Poetry
- Enchanting Ruin: Tintern Abbey and Romantic Tourism in Wales - Introduction
- Spenser and the Tradition: English Poetry 1579-1830
- Leeds Verse Database (BCMSV)
- EnglishVerse.com
- Representative Poetry On-line
- The Poetess Archive: Poetry by Women and Men, British and American, writing in the Poetess Tradition, 1785-1900
- American Verse Project (University of Michigan)
- British Poetry 1780-1910 (University of Virginia)
Fine Arts
- Kate Greenaway
- 19th Century Actors Photographs
- Andy's Early Comics Archive
- ARC International - The Art Renewal Center
- Art of the Print
- ArtLex Art Dictionary
- ArtServe
- Beazley Archive (Classical Arts)
- Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource
- British Museum - Pictorial Art Collection Database
- Cartoon Centre Catalogue
- Cartoon Cornucopia (LOC)
- Children's Book Illustrators
- Collage: Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery
- Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
- Cruikshank Artwork at Princeton University Library
- Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration
- Dictionary of Art Historians
- Digital Archive of European Architecture
- Early Photographically Illustrated Books - Victorian photographs
- EIKON Image Database
- Exhibition Culture
- Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915
- Exposed: The Victorian Nude (Tate)
- Fashion Plate Collection (University of Washington)
- Gender, Literature, and Art
- Glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology
- Government Art Collection (UK)
- Great Caricatures
- Hale Scrapbook
- Hogarth: The Site for Research on William Hogarth
- Illustrated Books 1780-1830 (Penn)
- Images of England
- Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840 -1860
- Index of Christian Art
- James Gillray (Princeton)
- John Leech Cartoon Archives 1841-1864
- John William Waterhouse
- John William Waterhouse (another site)
- Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection
- LizzieSiddal.com
- Mausolea and Monuments Trust
- Mezzotint Satires
- Napoleonic Satires
- National Maritime Museum Prints & Drawings
- National Portrait Gallery
- Nineteenth-Century British Art
- Oxford Portraits
- Photographs Exhibited in Britain 1839 -1865
- Photographs Exhibited in Britain 1839 -1865
- Phryne (Painting 1816-1914)
- Prints from the Curzon Collection: Images of Napoleon and British Fears of Invasion, 1789 - 1815
- Shakespeare Illustrated
- Simeon Solomon Research Archive
- Sir John Tenniel (Lewis Carroll engravings)
- SPIRO, Architecture Visual Resources Library Image Database
- The Art of John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
- The Bible and the Visual Imagination
- The Daguerreian Society
- The Elements of Drawing (John Ruskin's teaching collection)
- The Political Cartoon Society
- The Pre-Raphaelite Critic
- The Print and The Book
- The Regency Fashion Page
- The Regency Fashion Portraits Page
- The Scrap Album - Victorian Greeting Cards, Valentines and Scraps
- The Sister Arts - British Gardening, Painting, & Poetry 1700-1832
- Thomas Bewick (1753-1828)
- Victoria and Albert Museum: Digital Collections
- Victorian and Edwardian Photographs - Carte de Visite
- Victorian Art and Design
- Victorian Art in Britain
- Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection
- ViewFinder (English Heritage)
- Visual Arts Data Service - NICE Paintings
- Walker Art Gallery (19th Century Gallery)
Philosophy and Religion
- Irish Penal Laws
- John Foxe - Acts and Monuments (OSU)
- AdHoc Image and Text Database (History of Christianity)
- The 1662 Book of Common Prayer Website
- John Foxe's Book of Martyrs
- Unitarian Historical Society
- Digital Quaker Collection
- The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835: Home
- Jewish Communities & Records: UK
- Cyberhymnal
- Orestes Brownson Society
- Methodist Archives and Research Centre: Biographical Index
- Joseph Butler
- THE PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON
- The Revealer
- Anglo-Jewish Archives Database (University of Southampton)
- The Jewish Historical Society of England
- Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies
- Project Canterbury (Anglican)
- Internet Theology Resources (Catholic)
- Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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- Curiosities of Literature
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- Edward Lear’s Diaries
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- John Scalzi
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- Scribblingwoman
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- The Classroom Conservative
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No-one's ever given me a satisfactory answer as to why a journal article can't be 11,000+ words. Or, for that matter, my preferred 5,000 word format... Any clues?
Posted by: Puplet | April 04, 2007 at 09:19 PM
Ah! I just cut an 11,000+ word chapter (NOT counting notes) down to 4500 words COUNTING notes! It hurt!
Posted by: poppyabd | April 05, 2007 at 11:16 AM
How about being able to write 300 pages on a subject, but not 20?
Posted by: Clio Bluestocking | April 05, 2007 at 03:20 PM