Links and Resources
Links to useful, relevant and interesting online resources and those employed in the making of this site are available below. If you wish to satiate your curiosity about the Regency period experience so vividly brought to life by Laura, require assistance with your own burgeoning creative writing career or want to find some effective website building tools, the following sites may be of interest.
Publishers and Creative Writing Resources
Fygleaves Laura Dawn's publisher has a central aim of publishing the work of inexperienced young writers and encourages submissions from previously unpublished sources. Details of their online book club and how to submit work for consideration are available at this website.
Knowledge Hound This resource offers a vast litany of links to useful resources designed to assist with all types of creative writing. The navigation structure of this website is particularly helpful for people looking for information particular to a specific creative writing domain such as playwriting or poetry.
Regency Resources
The Regency Collection This resource has links to a number of interesting articles on Regency period life, writing, illustrations and recipes! The site is particularly excellent for those people who wish to expand their knowledge of the historical and social context which informed the work of the Regency authors.
A Simple Little Regency Bibliography This resource offers a comprehensive bibliography of non-fiction books that provide an introduction to the Regency period. This site is particularly useful for anyone who wishes to study the peculiarities of the era in some depth.
Regency This website offers numerous links to intriguing articles about the Regency era, its people, publications, transportation, dances and fashions.
Laura's Favourite Authors
Jane Austen Information Page This is a comprehensive resource devoted to Jane Austen, her written works, art and personal history. The site offers a number of Austen's shorter stories in e-text format.
Anne Bronte - The Scarborough Connection This is an extremely comprehensive and well illustrated resource devoted to Anne Bronte's written work, art, poetry and personal history. The site offers a number of extremely interesting digitised images of Bronte's diaries and music manuscripts.
Charles Dickens: An Overview This is a huge resource which offers detailed information on Charles Dickens' written output and personal history. The site offers a number of intriguing critical responses to themes that arise in his work.
George Eliot: An Overview This is a similarly huge resource offering detailed information on George Eliot's written output and personal history. The site offers a number of critical pieces that contextualise Eliot's work within a wider social and literary context.
Website Building Resources
Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource This is an excellent introductory website for people interested in learning how to create their own online resources. Offers useful tutorials to assist with the creation of effective, tidy and efficient HTML coding and stylesheets.
The World Wide Web Consortium This resource has a number of validating tools to help website creators ensure that their HTML coding is compliant with nominal Web statutes (such as the XHTML specification) and also offers useful tutorials to assist with this process.
Web Design Tutorials and Articles This resource offers a number of useful tutorials that provide solutions to common queries and irritations associated with website building.
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