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Information about the life and works, from the UK mmbership organization founded in 1927.

From the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, California, a collection of biographical materials, documents, audio files, images, e-texts, bibliographies, resources for students and teachers, and links to organizations, websites, and events centered around the life and writings of Jack London

BBC feature includes article, biographical information, obituary, photos, video vlips from his plays, and a tribute by Harold Pinter.

The site contains most of Milton's major poetry in English and some of his prose. Many of the works presented have been fully annotated.

Links to resources concerning the Japanese writer.

Resouces in both English and Russian include literary works, interviews, lectures, articles, and study notes.

Devoted to the English novelist, essayist, and social commentator (real name Eric Arthur Blair). Site includes summaries and interpretations, essays, biographical information, links to other resources, and a gallery of pictures, poems, and letters.

Browse Owen's manuscripts, photographs, video clips of World War One, publications of the war, and audio clips from interviews with veterans.

Essays, information, buiographical and blibliographical details, links to other notable sites.

"The Anthony Powell Society was founded in June 2000 by a group of scholars and enthusiasts following Powell's death at the age of 94. The Society's aim is to advance for the public benefit, education and interest in the life and works of the English author Anthony Dymoke Powell."

This site, celebrating the centennial of the author's birth, includes a biography and bibliographic information.

Site contains material in the following categories: e-texts bibliographies derivative works museums and libraries events associations and clubs website updates iconography images critical reception links.

E-text of the novel, annotations, images, a timeline of Swift's life and works, images, and links to other resources.

Poems in e-text format.

"In 1969 the Tolkien Society was founded to further interest in the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.B.E., the author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and other works of fiction and philological study. Based in the United Kingdom and registered as an independent, non-profit making charity. . .the Society has an international membership which benefits from regular publications and events."

Collection of material by and about John Updike, including an interview, a biography, and a bibliography.

Home page with a broad range of links, plus biography, criticism, reviews, and e-texts.

"The Edith Wharton Society offers Wharton scholars and other interested persons an opport unity to share in the study and appreciation of the life and works of this author. Through annual meetings, sessions, special conferences, and its journal, The Edith Wharton Review, the Society provides a forum for Wharton studies."

Original photographs owned by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California Los Angeles.

This organization's purpose is "to foster and encourage the scholarly study of, critical attention to, and general interest in, the work and career of Virginia Woolf. Includes conference and membership information, a bibliography, and related links.

"This website is intended as a focus for information on the life and works of the Victorian novelist and writer Charlotte Mary Yonge (18231901)."