William Dean Howells Links

William Dean Howells Society  This site has resources of many kinds, including links to online texts. This is the source of the easily accessible online text of An Imperative Duty.

Howells, William Dean (Making of America:, Cornell University)  From this page you can go to images of the original Harper's publication of An Imperative Duty (July-Oct., 1891).

William Dean Howells (1837-1920)  Links to study guides, a chronology, online texts, etc., all from a very reliable source.

The William Dean Howells Page  Useful primary bibliography.  Howells wrote a rather amazing number of books.

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide:  William Dean Howells  Primary and secondary bibliography and useful (though brief) general comments.

Project Gutenberg Titles by William Dean Howells  Project Gutenberg is an online source for full-text works.  An excellent resource, it can be somewhat intimidating to use, so pages like this are very useful.  Note, however, that Project Gutenberg is continually growing, so this list may not be complete.

William Dean Howells  A brief, hyperlinked biography, from a British perspective.  

William Dean Howells  Brief descriptions of the major novels.

William Dean Howells  From the University of Maryland Libraries, this is another access point for Project Gutenberg texts.

William Dean Howells Papers, 1871-1916:  1 box  This list of manuscripts and papers in a library at the University of Rochester gives an idea of how voluminous the correspondence of a late nineteenth century author might be. These would be a tiny fraction of the surviving letters, themselves a small part of the letters Howells wrote.  Scanning the list will give  you a taste of what it is like to do research with primary materials.

WDH:  Edward Bellamy  A Danish site carries Howells' comments about Edward Bellamy, author of the influential utopian novel Looking Backward.

William Dean Howells A brief notice at an Italian site emphasizes WDH's relation to Italy.

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