ENG 3U1
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Ideas
Objective
To research a famous person of the nineteenth century and determine how this figure affected
his/her time.
Skills:
Find these sheets on the Library Website http://schools.hwdsb.on.ca/ancasterhigh/library-2/
…under Library Lessons (On the left menu)….English…English 3U (in the box)
 Note-taking
 Citing sources. Go to our library website for help with MLA citations.
 You must use different sources (a book, Internet websites, journal or magazine articles
and an encyclopaedia (on-line or book).
 Evaluating sources
 Presenting in an interesting manner after organizing and rehearsing your presentation.
FIND A BOOK: Book Collection (IPAC):
Log on to any computer
Go to Desk Tools
Find Ancaster On-Line Catalogue on the desktop and double click
Or
Use the dedicated On-line catalogue computer
Or
Go to the Library Website and Click on the IPAC
http://schools.hwdsb.on.ca/ancasterhigh/library-2/
General Encyclopedia:
These are located on the shelves near the seating area.
Special Reference Materials:
These are the specific encyclopedias and are located along the back wall. In each source, use
the INDEX to locate your topic.
808.8 COR Encyclopedia of the Victorian World
820.9 OXF The Oxford Companion to English Literature
942 CHR
Chronicle of Britain
Dictionary of World Biography – use the index
Encyclopedia of the 19th Century
On-line Databases:
Virtual Library ACCESS
1. Ancaster Library Website (Look for the Virtual Library
button)
2. Virtual Library Board Website
ID: secondary
Password: library
Questia
http://www.questia.com/
See the Introduction to Questia document for help.
What’s in the Virtual Library that could be helpful for this project?
Databases
Literary Reference Centre
Directory of Victorian Resources
http://www.academicinfo.net/histukvicto
rian.html
Virtual Victorians (includes a day in the
life feature)
http://www.victorians.org.uk/
The Victorians
http://victorian.lang.nagoyau.ac.jp/sites/links.html
http://www.victorianlinks.com/
www.geocities.com/victorianlace10/chrono.
html
http://www.deltacomdesign.co.uk/victoriana_historical.htm
http://killeenroos.com/link/victoria.htm
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/
Victorian_index.htm
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victo
rians/
Victorian Web (has many
links)
http://www.victorianweb.org/
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/primaryli
nks/victorian.html
Victorian Timeline
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/sc
otland/victorians.shtml
http://www.victorianstation.com/timeline
.htm
http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/niels
en/victime.html
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsi
tes/H/history/guide19/part08x.html
The Literature Network
http://www.onlineliterature.com/author_index.php
English literature 1801-1870 (Dickens,
Shelley etc)
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/e/englishliterature1
801-1870.htm
Victorian Dictionary
http://www.victorianlondon.org/
Victorian Research Web
http://victorianresearch.org/
Victorian Literary Project
http://www.lang.nagoyau.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html
Victorian resources
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/bpn2f/vict
orian/bibliog.html
Queen Victoria
http://www.victorianstation.com/queen.h
tml
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR
victoria.htm
http://www.btinternet.com/~sbishop100/
Charles Darwin
http://users.aber.ac.uk/amg3/human.htm
http://www.aboutdarwin.com/
Mary Wollstonecraft
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/woll
.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/W
wollstonecraft.htm
William Godwin
http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/www.en
glish.upenn.edu/jlynch/Frank/Godwin/bi
o.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/godwin/
Lord Byron
http://website.lineone.net/~ssiggeman/bio
graphy.html
http://www.todayinliterature.com/biogra
phy/lord.byron.asp
Voltaire
http://www.age-of-thesage.org/philosophy/voltaire.html
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/darr
ow5.htm
William Wordsworth
http://www.victorianweb.org/previctoria
n/ww/bio.html
John Locke
http://www.age-of-thesage.org/philosophy/locke.html
Thomas Paine
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/tpaine/paine
.htm
Jean Jacques Rousseau
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/rou
s.htm
Percy Bysshe Shelley
http://www.onlineliterature.com/shelley_percy/
Humphry Davy
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/k
narf/Davy/bio.html
Thomas Malthus
http://www.age-of-thesage.org/philosophy/malthus.html
James Watt
http://www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/stea
m/wattbio.html
William Blake
http://www.online-literature.com/blake/
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/about
-blake.html
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/
stc.html
Robespierre
http://www.age-of-thesage.org/historical/biography/maximilien
_robespierre.html
http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b
2robespierre.htm
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/rob
espierre.html
Marat
http://seni.club.fr/life_of_marat.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Paul_
Marat
Louis XVI
http://dromo.info/louis16bio.htm
http://www.geocities.com/frenchmonarch
/louisxvi/links.html
Marie Antoinette
http://www.marie-antoinette.org/
http://www.austrianmint.com/e/mahitxt.html
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/
Delta/6569/
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/M
arieAntoinette.html
The Jacobins
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REV/RADICA
L.HTM
Mrs. Radcliff and Horace Walpole
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/radclif
fe.html
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/walpol
e.html
French Revolution
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist
7.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mo
dsbook13.html
King George III
http://britannia.com/history/monarchs/m
on55.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR
georgeIII.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_fig
ures/george_iii_king.shtml
Edmund Burke
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/bur
ke.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_fig
ures/burke_edmund.shtml
Tomas de Quincey
http://www.queensu.ca/english/tdq/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/quincey.htm
Jacques Louis David
http://www.wga.hu/framese.html?/bio/d/david_j/biograph.html
Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://www.onlineliterature.com/hawthorne/
John Wilkes
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.
asp?isbn=0300108710
Benjamin Disraeli
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR
disraeli.htm
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pms
/dizzy.html
William Gladstone
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pms
/gladston.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR
gladstone.htm
Emile Zola
http://www.online-literature.com/emilezola/
Nicholas Sadi Carnot
http://www-history.mcs.stand.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Carnot_S
adi.html
Karl Marx
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU
marx.htm
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/ma
rx.html
http://www.indepthinfo.com/communistmanifesto/karl-marx.shtml
Friedrich Engels
http://www.indepthinfo.com/communistmanifesto/engels.shtml
Charlotte Bronte
http://www.onlineliterature.com/brontec/
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bro
nte/cbronte/bronteov.html
Emily Bronte
http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/
John Newton
http://www.johnnewton.org/
William Wilberforce
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RE
wilberforce.htm
Charles Dickens
http://www.onlineliterature.com/dickens/
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dic
kens/index.html
George Eliot
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gelliot.htm
http://www.onlineliterature.com/george_eliot/
Josephine Butler
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/W
butler.htm
Emily Bronte
http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebronte.htm
Anne Jemima Clough
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/W
clough.htm
The workhouses
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presid
ents/thomasjefferson/
Montesquieu
http://www.austen.com/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montesq
uieu/
Napoleon Bonaparte
http://www.worldwar1history.com/Napoleon-Bonaparte.aspx
Jacques Louis David
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Jacq
ues-Louis_David.aspx
Eugene Delacroix
http://www.eugenedelacroix.org/
Victorian Science
http://www.juliantrubin.com/schooldirec
tory/victorianscienceresources.html
Victor Hugo
http://www.onlineliterature.com/victor_hugo/
Famous Victorians
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsi
tes/H/history/guide19/part07.html
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victo
rians/
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsi
tes/H/history/guide19/part08x.html
http://www.learningconnections.co.uk/curric/cur_pri/victoria
ns/handson/hands_7.html
Jane Austen
http://www.austen.com/
J.M.W. Turner
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/tur
ner/
The Gothic Novel
http://cai.ucdavis.edu/waterssites/gothicnovel/155breport.html
The Great Exhibition
http://www.victorianstation.com/palace.h
tml
The Irish Famine
http://www.enotes.com/nineteenthcentury-criticism/irish-faminerepresented-nineteenth-century
Lord Byron
http://englishhistory.net/byron.html
AVOID PLAGIARISM…Citing:
 Remember…all good researchers cite any ideas they borrow from other sources.
 Use MLA Style for citing in this project.
 Make sure you keep track of all resources you may want to cite or reference. We have
blank Bibliography sheets you can use to keep track of the important information as you
research. Just ask at the counter.
 Use a note sheet for every major resource you use.
 Use KnightCite
Go to KnightCite http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php
or Citation machine http://citationmachine.net/
for on-line tools that help you to cite properly using MLA Style.

All the detail you need to complete a correct Works Cited is on the Library website.