LibGuides: E 375J/LAH 350: Drama of Jameston, Hannah Wojciehowski: Background Information

Background Information & Reference

As you begin your research on 16th and 17th English colonial history and literature, you may find these resources & collections helpful for context, understanding, and background. These include scholarly dictionaries, encyclopedias, and biographies. Think of these like "scholarly Wikipedia".

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
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Updated quarterly. Covers words from across the English-speaking world and offers etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and phonetic pronunciation. Corresponds to the print Oxford English Dictionary published in 1989 and the three Additions volumes published 1993-1997.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Updated three times per year. Biographical dictionary of people of distinction in the British Isles and its colonies who died before December 31, 2000. Provides signed articles, each with a bibliography of resource materials, written by specialists. Content includes the complete text of the new sixty-volume Oxford DNB with 50,000 biographies and 10,000 portrait illustrations as well as the complete text of the original thirty-three volume of the DNB.
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Gale eBooks
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Updated regularly. A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files.

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