Yes, it's a break with tradition, but I'm sure we could all use a picture of cats on fluffy blankets, courtesy of Lydia Gwilt and Allan Armadale.
Currently reading...
Personal favorites
- English Professors vs. Cats: A Serious Evaluation
- If Social Media Counted Toward Tenure
- LP in the House
- "I never see those things"
- A Booke of Proofreading Magick
- Academic Honor Code for a University a Long, Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
- Advice to Graduate Students on the Fine Art of Buying Books (Prompted by Several Hours of Moving Books Around)
- Christian History Redux
- Evangelical historiography: a Victorian popular example
- How to Write a CoHE "First Person" Essay: A Handy Multiple-Choice Guide
- I worked so hard
- If reader's reports looked like wine reviews
- Inappropriate Disney Films: A Proposal in the Wake of a Certain Acquisition
- Intergalactic Language Association Job Information List
- James Malcolm Rymer meets Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles; Or, the Bloody Curse at the Hall
- Kaleidoscopic and domestic
- L&O: Special Academic Unit
- Let Me Entertain You
- No Sex Please, We're Victorian: A Handy-Dandy Guide to Code Words
- On a slightly different literary note: Dick Delver
- Rules for Writing Neo-Victorian Novels
- Scholars & Students: A Compendium of Professorial Magic
- Star Trek XII: The Wrath of the Search for the Voyage of Finals Week
- Stardate 2378: A Starfleet Captain challenges a final grade
- Textual and Material Culture in the Temple of Academe: A Proposal for the 520th Meeting of the MLA, 2413
- The Little Professor: A behind-the-scenes look at the research process
- The Little Professor: A Sermon, on the Current Disputes Over Turning Off Cellphones in the British Library Reading Rooms; Delivered on June 20, 2006, in Islington
- The Little Professor: Victorian religious novel liveblogging, JFK layover edition: Truth without Fiction, and Religion without Disguise
- The Little Professor: Victorian religious novel liveblogging, MLA edition: Truth without Fiction, and Religion without Disguise
- The Little Professor: Victorian religious novel liveblogging, snowstorm edition: Truth without Fiction, and Religion without Disguise
- The Little Professor: Victorian religious novel liveblogging: Truth without Fiction, and Religion without Disguise
- The Little Professor: Victorian religious novel liveblogging: Truth without Fiction, and Religion without Disguise
- The Practical Applications of Gothic Fiction
- The prostitute's progress
- The Syllabus of the (Very Far) Future
- Words
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Victorian Studies
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- 9s NINES 9s
- A Vision of Britain through Time
- Annotated Bibliography of Chartism
- Arthur Lloyd - The Music Hall Site Dedicated to Arthur Lloyd 1839 - 1904
- 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
- Digitizing "Chinese Englishmen" | Representations of race and empire in the nineteenth century
- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
- Dressing Up Canada - Late Victorian Fancy Dress Balls
- E-Texts for Victorianists
- Journal of Victorian Culture Online |
- Minor Victorian Poets and Authors
- Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
- Mutiny at the Margins - The Indian uprising of 1857
- Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
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- Popular History in Victorian Magazines Database
- Price One Penny - Cheap Literature from 1837-1860
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- RaVoN (Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net)
- Shakespeare and the Players
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- The British Empire
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- The Golden Age of British Theatre
- 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 Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852 - 1863
- The Victorian Sonnet
- The Victorian Web: An Overview
- The Victorian Women Writers Project
- The Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project
- UCL Bloomsbury Project
- Victoria Research Web
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- Victorian Bookbinding (North Texas)
- Victorian Poetry Network
- Victorian Sensationalism Online
- Victorian Web Sites
- Victorian Women Writers - A Guide to E-Texts
- Welcome | Legacies of British Slave-ownership
- Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
- Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
- Women in the Literary Marketplace
Romanticism
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
- American Jewess Project
- Athenaeum Index: 1872-1886
- Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine
- Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine
- Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845
- BLT19: 19th-Century Business, Labour, Temperance, & Trade Periodicals
- British periodicals at Minnesota
- Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive
- Galactic Central (Database of Fiction Magazines)
- Godey's Lady's Book
- Ilustrated London News
- Internet Library of Early Journals
- Making of America Journals
- Missionary Periodicals Database
- Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read: Magazines
- Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition
- QR Electronic Texts (Quarterly Review)
- The Belfast Newsletter Index
- The Bijou Gift Book for 1828
- The British Colonist 1858-1910
- The Curran Index to Wellesley Index Revisions
- The Occident and American Jewish Advocate
- The Quarterly Review Archive
- The Scotsman Archive
- The Yellow Nineties Online
- UB Bielefeld: Zeitschriften der Aufklärung
Fiction
- A Guide to Irish Fiction, Digital Version
- A Taste of Horton - A selection of items from the Horton Collection of Children's Material
- British Fiction 1800-1829
- CHILDE project - Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe
- Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University
- Crime Thru Time
- Crimeculture
- Dialect in British Fiction: 1800-1836
- Early Canadiana Online
- END - Early Novels Database
- Frankenstein Collation (1818 and 1831 editions)
- Ghost Story Writers
- Historische Romane über das alte Rom
- Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
- IU Lilly Library Chapbook collection
- Literature for Children
- Novels Reviewed Database, 1790-1820
- Open Graves, Open Minds
- Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America
- The Baldwin Project (children's fiction)
- The Detective and the Toga
- The English Novel, 1830-36
- The Historical Novel Society: The Place for New Historical Fiction, The Historical Novel Society: The Place for New Historical Fiction
- The Novel in Europe 1670-1730
- The Novel in Europe, 1670-1730
- To be continued . . . – The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database
- Uchronia: The Alternate History List
- Victorian Serial Novels | Reading like a Victorian
- Westminster Detective Library
- Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
Poetry
- American Verse Project (University of Michigan)
- Early Stuart Libels
- Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse, ed. David Ewick & Irene De Angelis
- English Broadside Ballad Archive
- EnglishVerse.com
- Leeds Verse Database (BCMSV)
- Representative Poetry On-line
- The Poetess Archive
- The Poetry of the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-1800
Fine Arts
- 19th Century Actors Photographs
- Andy's Early Comics Archive
- ArtLex Art Dictionary
- ArtServe
- BBC - Your Paintings
- Beazley Archive (Classical Arts)
- Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource
- British Museum - Pictorial Art Collection Database
- British Printed Images to 1700
- Cartoon Centre Catalogue
- Cartoon Cornucopia (LOC)
- Children's Book Illustrators
- CLARA (Database of Women Artists)
- Collage: Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery
- Collins Collection of Irish Political Cartoons
- Colour Prints by George Baxter
- Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
- Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration
- Dictionary of Art Historians
- Digital Archive of European Architecture
- Exhibition Culture
- Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915
- Fashion Plate Collection (University of Washington)
- Glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology
- Government Art Collection (UK)
- Great Caricatures
- Hale Scrapbook
- Illustrated Books 1780-1830 (Penn)
- Illustrating Scott
- Images of England
- Images of Prayer, Politics, and Everyday Life From the Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection
- Index of Christian Art
- John Leech Cartoon Archives 1841-1864
- John William Waterhouse
- John William Waterhouse (another site)
- LizzieSiddal.com
- Mausolea and Monuments Trust
- Mezzotint Satires
- Napoleonic Satires
- National Portrait Gallery
- NIKI: Photo Study Collection of the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence
- Photographs Exhibited in Britain 1839 -1865
- Prints from the Curzon Collection: Images of Napoleon and British Fears of Invasion, 1789 - 1815
- Shakespeare Illustrated
- 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 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 Illustrated Shakespeare Archive
- Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection
- ViewFinder (English Heritage)
- Welsh costume dolls project | Welsh Costume / Gwisg Gymreig
- What Jane Saw
Philosophy and Religion
- Ann Griffiths Digital Website
- Bibledex - Expert videos about every book in the Bible
- Catholic Heritage
- John Foxe - Acts and Monuments (OSU)
- Isaac Mayer Wise Digital Archive
- The 1662 Book of Common Prayer Website
- John Foxe's Book of Martyrs
- Digital Quaker Collection
- Cyberhymnal
- THE PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON
- Anglo-Jewish Archives Database (University of Southampton)
- The Jewish Historical Society of England
- Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies
- Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies
- Project Canterbury (Anglican)
- Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Origins of Comparative Religion: Bernard and Picart's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World (1723-1743)
Buy Books!
- AddALL Book Search
- HamiltonBook.com
(remainders) - Labyrinthbooks.com
(new and remaindered scholarly books) - Postscript Books
(UK remainders) - Richard Beaton's Victorian Novels and Novelists
- Seminary Co-op Bookstore
(disclaimer: I used to work for them) - The Sensation Press
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October 22, 2016
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Our cats sprawl in the same ways on our bed. Life is good when there's shedding to be done!
Posted by: Janice | October 22, 2016 at 10:49 PM
Ah, wouldn't it be nice to be a well-looked-after cat?
Posted by: JaneB | October 23, 2016 at 05:47 PM