Portraits, Visual and Written - focuses on Louisa May Alcott and Samuel Clemens: see excerpts from Alcott's girlhood journal and "Little Women" and read Clemens' explanation of his white suit in "Mark Twain's Autobiography" and the last chapter of "Tom Sawyer", where Huck Finn has fled the Widow Douglas's civilizing influence.
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940
American Writers -
Biography and classroom resources for authors
Poets and Writers - information and inspiration for creative writers, featuring Poets & Writers Magazine and includes a discussion forum, a database of writers, and advice about publishing and copyright issues, discussions on writing and teaching. (National Endowment for the Arts)
Books
Children's Literature: Digitized Print Materials -50 digitized texts of rare books: The Arabian Nights, A Child's Garden of Verses, Ballad of the Lost Hare, A Christmas Carol, Humpty Dumpty, The Grasshopper Stories, Mother Goose Finger Plays, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Rocket Book, The Secret Garden, Stories from Hans Andersen, The Three Bears, Three Little Pigs, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and others. (Library of Congress)
Individuals
Knowing Poe - life, works, and writing techniques (Department of Education)
Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection - contains 130 newspaper clippings, photos, & materials from a scrapbook kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Better known as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's "Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) & "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871), Dodgson was a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Zora Neale Hurston Plays - manuscripts of 10 plays reflect Hurston's life experience, travels, research, and study of folklore in the African-American South.(Library of Congress)
Mark Twain Project Online - offers more than 2300 letters from Twain's correspondence between 1853 and 1880 to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote. (MTPO, National Endowment for the Humanities)
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