18th Century Resources
Roxanne Kent-Drury
Northern Kentucky University
General Resources
Voice of the Shuttle 18th century page
Jack Lynch's 18th century resources
Norton Topics Online: Restoration & Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth-century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
How to Find Materials in
The Eighteenth Century
Microfilm Series
(Note--these materials are now part of the
Eighteenth Century Online
database.)
Organizations
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(click on a recent CFP to gain a sense of what 18th scholars are working on)
International Society for 18th-century Studies
(in French)
Voltaire Foundation
ARTFL
Bayles Dictionnaire Historique et Critique
Genres
Prose
Epistolary Novels
Periodicals
Internet Library of Early Journals
The Spectator--Internet Archive
Selections from the Spectator
Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports
(Rictor Norton)
Women
Perdita Project--Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations
Special Topics
Science
The Old Operating Theatre
Law and Crime
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674-1834
Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the 18th century
--Article by David Friedman
Religion in 18th-century America
Warwick 18th Century Center
American Architecture
Material Culture
Plimouth Plantation
Stanley Whitman House
, Farmington, CT
Costume
Looking at 18th Century Clothing
--Colonial Williamsburg
18th century European Dress
--The Metropolitan Museum of Art
18th Century Fashion
--Victoria and Albert Museum
Glossary of Costume
Chawton, MA in 18th Century Studies
--University of Southampton's site for 18th century studies
Landscape and Architecture
Vaux le Vicomte
--17th century French architecture & landscape gardens, created by Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
Food
17th century cookery
Hannah Glasse's
The Arte of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
Dictionaries
Johnson's Dictionary Project
Authors
Jane Austen
Aphra Behn
John Gay
Samuel Pepys' Diary
--A site that currently plans to add an entry a day until complete.
Alexander Pope
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
E-texts
Renascence editions
--Critical editions 1477-1799
Revised 10 Nov 2017
Roxanne Kent-Drury
Northern Kentucky University