ENGL 3114 -Women and Literature II: Biographies, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries

Reference sources (online)

Contemporary Authors Online (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Offers students and patrons continuous access to deep and current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 145,000 of today’s most influential novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Provides background information from 4000 academic reference sources and allows users to create mindmaps for research topics. Access this link https://library.shu.edu/credo-reference to view 200+ ebook titles.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Provides reliable information on authors and their works, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1000 years of English.

Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Companions Online offers subject or theme based collections in a searchable online environment. The Companions are available as a Complete Collection; Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics; the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture; and the Companions in Music.