Electronic Texts
Scanned and edited by Jack Lynch
I’ve been scanning and editing electronic texts since the early 1990s. They’re mostly for use in my classes, using the good-enough standard rather than the carefully-prepared-critical-edition standard. Comments and corrections are welcome.
- Miscellaneous:
- Anonymous:
- Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele:
- Ælfric:
- Aristotle:
- Mary Astell:
- John Aubrey:
- Jane Austen:
- Francis Bacon:
- Anna Letitia Barbauld:
- John Barbour:
- William Beckford:
- Aphra Behn:
- Richard Bentley:
- George Berkeley:
- Ambrose Bierce:
- James Boswell:
- John Breval:
- Edmund Burke:
- Frances Burney:
- Byron, George Gordon, Lord Byron:
- Cædmon:
- Margaret Cavendish:
- Geoffrey Chaucer:
- Mary, Lady Chudleigh:
- John Cleland:
- Peter Coulse:
- William Davenant and John Dryden:
- Daniel Defoe:
- Olympe de Gouges:
- Sir John Denham:
- Thomas De Quincey:
- John Donne:
- John Dryden:
- John Dyer:
- Henry Fielding:
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea:
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
- William Godwin:
- Thomas Gray:
- John Gregory:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne:
- Eliza Haywood:
- George Herbert:
- Robert Herrick:
- William Hogarth:
- Horace:
- David Hume:
- William Henry Ireland:
- Samuel Johnson:
- Charles Lamb:
- William Langland:
- Matthew Lewis:
- John Locke:
- H. P. Lovecraft:
- Richard Lovelace:
- John Lyly:
- Henry Mackenzie:
- James Macpherson:
- Thomas Malory:
- Bernard Mandeville:
- Christopher Marlowe:
- John Milton:
- Elizabeth Montagu:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:
- Samuel Pepys:
- Katherine Philips:
- Hester Thrale Piozzi:
- Edgar Allan Poe:
- John Polidori:
- Alexander Pope:
- Plutarch:
- Alexander (abridged to about 40% of its original length)
- Walter Ralegh:
- Samuel Richardson:
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester:
- John Scott:
- Anna Seward:
- William Shakespeare:
- Percy Bysshe Shelley:
- James Shirley:
- Sir Gawain:
- Adam Smith:
- Charlotte Smith:
- Edmund Spenser:
- Thomas Sprat:
- Laurence Sterne:
- Robert Louis Stevenson:
- Jonathan Swift:
- Nahum Tate:
- James Thomson:
- Frederick Jackson Turner:
- Voltaire:
- Horace Walpole:
- Joseph Warton:
- Oscar Wilde:
- Gerrard Winstanley:
- Mary Wollstonecraft:
- William Wordsworth:
- Ann Yearsley: