This website provides blog posts on individual books owned by women to document early modern female book ownership between 1500 and 1750. From the page linked above, visitors can use the "Finding Aid," which is essentially an index (available online or as a downloadable spreadsheet) that allows researchers to quickly locate posts about particular books by title, date, owner, or the library...

Edgar Allan Poe, who was born in 1809 and died in 1849, published work for only two decades, but his influence on literature was profound. In addition to being toted as America's first great literary critic, he is often credited with inventing the detective story, pioneering science fiction, and mastering the psychological horror story. The Poe Museum's excellent website is abundant with resources...

One would have to be a fairly devoted admirer of Edgar Allen Poe to brave the cold temperatures of Baltimore in January to deposit three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on the famous author's grave in commemoration of his birthday. That's precisely what happened this past Wednesday when the "Poe Toaster" (as he is known) deposited these items to pay homage to Poe on the anniversary of his...

Fairy Tales Around the World, a multi-part lesson plan from the team at EDSITEment, is perfect for elementary-level language arts and social studies classrooms. Here, readers will find six different lesson activities that are designed to help students learn to understand folk and fairy tales and appreciate them both as literature and for their depictions of "universal human emotions." In the first...

Poets and poetry enthusiasts will delight in the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive, "a peer-reviewed, award-winning digital archive and research project devoted to the poetry of the long eighteenth century." Expanding on versions of text provided by the Text Creation Partnership from Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online, this archive has two main aspects: a digitized poetry catalog and...

Founded in 2009 as a quarterly publication and revamped as a non-profit in 2014, Electric Literature aims "to expand the influence of literature in popular culture by fostering lively and innovative literary conversations and making exceptional writing accessible to new audiences." Today, the publication includes two weekly online magazines. The whimsically titled Scuttlebutt magazine features...

Founded in 1995, Electronic Book Review (ebr) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to "literary studies, broadly defined." Unlike other periodicals, ebr is continually updated through a series of themed threads. Each thread is edited by a content expert; current editors include scholars of cinematic arts, English, and mass communications. Thread topics include Technocapitalism (works that consider...

Astute readers of the Scout Report may find themselves asking: "What is electronic literature?" Well, as defined by the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) the term refers to "works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer." The ELO was started in 1999, and since that time the organization has worked...

Created in 1995 by Loss Peque'o Glazier, the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) serves as a "central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics at the University of Buffalo, the University of Pennsylvania's PennSound, UBU web, and the Web at large." The EPC site makes a wide range of material dealing with digital and innovative poetry available to the general public. The homepage is quite...

Readers hoping to author their own children's literature piece, or to assist the young people in their lives in doing so, may want to explore Elementari. The platform serves as a creative computational outlet that allows anyone to "write and code interactive stories." Users new to the app will want to begin by exploring the options provided under the menu icon (in the top-left corner). In the...