Early American Literature

E-texts

John Smith, The Generall Historie

• Vol. 1 <www.webroots.org/library/usahist/ghov1-00.html>
• Vol. 2 <www.webroots.org/library/usahist/ghov2-00.html>

• Vol. 1, Book 3

• http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/ghov1-04.html
• http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/ghov1-05.html
• http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/ghov1-06.html
• http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/ghov1-07.html

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center)

•  <etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/public/JefVirg.html>

Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (UNC)

• Vol. 1 <docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/menu.html>
• Vol. 2. <docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano2/menu.html>

Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket

•  <www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext00/poe3v11.txt> (Project Gutenberg)
• <xroads.virginia.edu/%7EMA98/silverman/poe/fulltext.html> (UVA)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction)

• <etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-eafpublic?id=eaf135.xml&tag=public&data=/texts/eaf&part=0> (Web version)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Self-Reliance" http://www.bartleby.com/5/104.html
• Divinity School “Address” http://www.bartleby.com/5/102.html

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (UVA)

• <etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ThoWald.html>

William Wells Brown, Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine

• <www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext00/clotl10a.txt> (Project Gutenberg)
• <xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wwbrown/cover.html> (UVA American Studies)

Nat Turner, Confessions (T.R. Gray)

• <docsouth.unc.edu/turner/menu.html>

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "Nat Turner's Insurrection"

•  <http://www.unl.edu/Price/dickinson/analogue10.html>

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

• Volume I <http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/stowe1/menu.html >
• Volume II <http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/stowe2/menu.html >

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life (University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center)

•  <etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DouNarr.html>

Angelina E. Grimké, "Appeal To The Christian Women of the South"

• <http://www.celdf.org/DemocracySchool/AnOutlineoftheWeekendCurriculum/AbolitionistsDemandEndofSlavery/AngelinaGrimkesAppeal/tabid/261/Default.aspx >
• <http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/abolition/Grimke%20Appeal%20To%20Xtian%20Women >
• <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbaapc:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbaapc11700div0)) > Library of Congress, with page images of the original publication.

Mary Boykin Chesnut, Diary

• <docsouth.unc.edu/chesnut/menu.html>

Anne Bradstreet (VIVA access only)

• The works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse. Edited by John Harvard Ellis (1867) <etext.lib.virginia.edu/vabin/apd-browse?id=AM9011>

Emily Dickinson (VIVA access only)

• Poems by Emily Dickinson: Edited by two of her Friends: Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson  (1890) <etext.lib.virginia.edu/vabin/apd-browse?id=AM1042>
• Poems by Emily Dickinson: Edited by two of her friends: T. W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd: second series (1892) <etext.lib.virginia.edu/vabin/apd-browse?id=AM1043>
• Poems by Emily Dickinson: edited by Mabell Loomis Todd. Third series  (1896) <etext.lib.virginia.edu/vabin/apd-browse?id=AM1089>
• The single hound: poems of a lifetime, by Emily Dickinson, with an introduction by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi  (1915) <etext.lib.virginia.edu/vabin/apd-browse?id=AM1343>

Special Collections

HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly) <app.harpweek.com>

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center, The Modern English Collection <etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html>

University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction <etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/>

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Last Updated: 08/18/2005Send corrections to: longt@tncc.vccs.edu