Wednesday 20 April 2011

Bonus Feature

I've added a secret page to the website, which enables you to search Victorian novels. I created this a while back to allow me to search by keyword on some core texts (all Dickens novels, a lot of Wilkie Collins, some other random Victorian novels) but it's been dormant for a while, and I thought I might need it again.

Probably it will only be of use to yours truly, but the list of texts included is:

§ 1836-37  The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

§ 1837 Henrietta Temple, Benjamin Disraeli

§ 1837 Venetia, Benjamin Disraeli

§ 1837-39 Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

§ 1838-39 Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens

§ 1839 Jack Sheppard, William Harrison Ainsworth

§ 1840-41 The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens

§ 1841 Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens

§ 1843 A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

§ 1843-44 Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens

§ 1844 Coningsby, Benjamin Disraeli

§ 1844-46 The Mysteries of London, G.W.M. Reynolds

§ 1845 Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli

§ 1845 Zoe, Geraldine Jewsbury

§ 1846-48 Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens

§ 1847 Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte

§ 1847 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

§ 1847 Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

§ 1847-48 Vanity Fair, W.M. Thackeray

§ 1848 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte

§ 1848-50 The History of Pendennis, W.M. Thackeray

§ 1849-50 David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

§ 1852 Basil, Wilkie Collins

§ 1852 Bleak House, Charles Dickens

§ 1853 Villette, Charlotte Bronte

§ 1854 Hard Times, Charles Dickens

§ 1854-55 North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell

§ 1855-57 Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens

§ 1857 The Professor, Charlotte Bronte

§ 1859 Adam Bede, George Eliot

§ 1859 A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

§ 1860 The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

§ 1860-61 Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

§ 1861 East Lynne, Mrs. Henry Wood

§ 1861-62 Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

§ 1862 No Name, Wilkie Collins

§ 1863 The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley

§ 1864-65 Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens

§ 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

§ 1866 Armadale, Wilkie Collins

§ 1867 Cometh up as a Flower, Rhoda Broughton

§ 1867 Under Two Flags, Ouida

§ 1868 The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

§ 1869 Lorna Doona, R.D. Blackmore

§ 1870 The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens

§ 1871 Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll

§ 1871-72 Middlemarch, George Eliot

§ 1874-75 The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope

§ 1876 Daniel Deronda, George Eliot

§ 1879 The Egoist, George Meredith

§ 1881 Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

§ 1883 The Story of an African Farm, Ralph Iron

§ 1886 Srange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

§ 1887 She, H. Rider Haggard

§ 1887 A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle

§ 1890 The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle

§ 1891 New Grub Street, George Gissing

§ 1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

§ 1894 Esther Waters, George Moore

§ 1895 The Sorrows of Satan, Marie Corelli

§ 1895 The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

§ 1897 Dracula, Bram Stoker

The search page itself is here
http://www.victorianlondon.org/etexts/search.cgi

Here's a sample result - every mention made by Dickens of the word Elephant ...
http://www.victorianlondon.org/etexts/search.cgi?zoom_query=elephant&zoom_per_page=10&zoom_cat=12&zoom_and=0

1 comment:

  1. This is great and it's an incredible resource, I use it often. Thanks!

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