JANE AUSTEN
TIPS AND TRICKS
1) LEARN TO SEARCH BY DATE RANGE TO LOCATE CONTEMPORARY SOURCES IN DATABASES BY USING THE CUSTOM DATE RANGE FILTER (Regency Era is roughly 1790 - 1820)
2) CONSIDER YOUR SEARCH TERMS. EXAMPLES INCLUDE "Regency era literature"
"Regency literature" or " unmarried women and social class and Regency era" as examples
3) REMEMBER TO LOG INTO DATABASES ANY TIME YOU ARE WORKING OFF CAMPUS WITH A LIBRARY RESOURCE. See off campus access info below
CONTEMPORARY SOURCES
(published from the mid 1700s - mid 1800s)NEWSPAPERS
AMERICA'S HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS QUERY ON JANE AUSTEN
SCHOLARLY MATERIAL
JSTOR QUERY ON JANE AUSTEN (from 1790-1850)
BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History
THE LONDON GAZETTE (define a date range)
Frances Burney. The Diary and Letters of Madam D’Arblay - Volume III. Scribe Publishing, 2015. EBSCOhost, https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=71984047-83d3-3f9f-af1c-b5f53a559de4. (Unmarried Women)
EBOOK
Debra Teachman. Understanding Pride and Prejudice : A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Greenwood, 1997. EBSCOhost, https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=9e893cc8-e1f1-362f-aeb0-b0d91d83bbbc.
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES + WEBSITES
SALEM PRESS ENCYLOPEDIA: THE REGENCY ERA OVERVIEW
JANE AUSTEN SUMMER PROGRAM (UNC)
THE BRITISH LIBRARY: JANE AUSTEN (see various articles on gender roles, social realism, female education as examples)
THE RISE OF THE NOVEL (UDEL British Literature Wiki)
THE RULES OF COURTING: DATING IN REGENCY ERA (PBS)
THE REGENCY ESTATE (Jane Austen's World)
THE EDUCATED WOMAN (Jane Austen Literacy Society)
INVASION SCARES IN BRITAIN (Napolean Wars Series Forum)