THE MOONSTONE: WWW LINKS

On-line editions of the novel:

From Project Gutenberg by John Hamm

Project Gutenberg textfile version

From Bibliomania


Wilkie Collins links:

The Wilkie Collins Etext Page by James Rusk (includes short stories)

Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page by David R Grigg

Wilkie Collins by Paul Lewis, membership secretary for the Wilkie Collins Society in London (includes Collins' Victorian coinage, his London home, the Dickens connection)

Wilkie Collins Society (includes brief literary biography)

The Wilkie Collins Opinions Page by David Arnott (includes chronology)

Wilkie Collins (1824-89) by Mitsuharu Matsuoka

Also by Collins, an on-line edition of THE WOMAN IN WHITE

More on THE WOMAN IN WHITE

MASTERPIECE THEATRE: The Moonstone (notes on television production)


Victorian detective fiction links:

The Archives of Detective Fiction from The Mercantile Library of New York with assistance from SUNY Empire State College

A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection Home Page by Michael E. Grost

including an helpful historical essay on British Sensation Fiction

Victorian Sensationalism Online (VOS) by Andrew Mactavish, Dept. of English, Univ. of Alberta

including Sensation Fiction and Victorian Culture: Contemporary Reviews and Responses


Victorian links:

The Victorian Web, a major gateway site for Victorian studies, by George Landow

Victoria Research Web at Indiana University, with many links to archival sites,

especially Other Victorian Resources, an annotated bibliography of important research links

Dickens Project from the University of California at Santa Cruz

"What Shall They Do to be Saved?" by Fitz Hugh Ludlow a contemporary essay on opium use in the 19th century, from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, August 1867

The Metropolitan Police from The Victorian Web

Electronic Historical Publications e-texts of selected Victorian magazines, by Roger Corrie


Victorian religious tracts links:

The Victorian Religious Tract: An Overview

A Selection of Cheap Repository Tracts (Kenyon College)

Religion in Great Britain (from The Victorian Web)


ROBINSON CRUSOE links:

Robinson Crusoe homepage includes a brief summary, biography of Crusoe, and excerpts

The Friday Site

Resourcefulness in CRUSOE (Penguin)

Daniel 'The True-Born Englishman' Defoe (1660-1731) (biographical sketch of the author)

"Engines of Our Ingenuity" by John H. Lienhard (article on ingenuity and technology, exploring the Crusoe myth)

Online edition


Yorkshire links:

Yorkshire Dales Guide (Yorkshirenet)

Yorkshire Visitor Centre


India links:

Discover India (Ministry of External Affairs)

My India by Bhaskar Krishnamachari (many links)

Map of contemporary India

India Travelogue (clickable map)

Map of British India

Benares [Varanasi] from the Illustrated London News, November 28, 1857

Real audio recording of sounds of wood being chopped for the 24 hour cremations which take place in the holy city known as Benares (from Sonic World).

Figures of History: Some Indian Rulers

Tippoo Sultán

H.M. 19th Light Dragoons - regimental history on the Battle of Seringapatam

British India by David Cody, Hartwick College (from The Victorian Web)

Colonialism: definitions (from The Victorian Web)

Literature of the Indian Subcontinent in English (from The Victorian Web)

World Art Treasures - India


Gemstone links:

Moonstone Selection

Moonstone (Orthoclase)

Moonstone: Mysterious Lunar Gem


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