Any author writing Westerns set in the Gold Rush era will find material in this book.ĬALIFORNIA EMIGRANT LETTERS, edited by Walker D.
Stuart tells of the Montana Native Americans’ love of practical jokes, of being tormented by mosquitoes and gnats to exhaustion on the journey, and buying a mare in the gold fields for $70 and two mules for $130. Stuart prospected in both California’s and the lesser-known Montana gold rush, and ended up settling in the latter state. PROSPECTING FOR GOLD: FROM DOGTOWN TO VIRGINIA CITY, 1852-1864, by Granville Stuart. Gold Rush, this would be a (pardon the pun) mine of information.
When the train starts across the desert, they count 70 dead animals within one 25 mile stretch. An entry for June 1849 describes how the travelers used lassos to obtain firewood from trees, and the entry for July 31 tells of finding a quarter inch of ice on their water buckets, despite it being midsummer. If you want to set a novel during the westward trek of Easterners to the California gold fields, this journal transcription provides primary source information. TRAIL TO CALIFORNIA: THE OVERLAND JOURNAL OF VINCENT GEIGER AND WAKEMAN BRYARLY, ed. If your local library does not own an older book, its staff can probably get the book for you via interlibrary loan. The book included here were published a few decades ago, so you may have to go to your local library or buy secondhand copies, but they still offer valuable information for today’s researchers. If you are setting a novel in arts and literature circles of Victorian England, this site would provide primary source material for your research. Principal correspondents include painter, poet, and founder of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in art, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) and critic and biographer William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919).” The website offers a useful “category pages” section, where the authors, subjects, and locations of the documents are sorted together and easily clickable, without the researcher having to seek out the individual documents on a person or topic one by one. The Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas offers digitized letters and manuscripts from the Rossetti family, a “British family of Italian descent whose members influenced art and literature during the second half of the 19th century. Credit: Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries Signed photograph of Dante Gabriel Rossetti on card. ROSSETTI FAMILY PAPERS, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS The website says work is continuing to expand the offerings of modern manuscripts and printed books, so it will be worth checking back on this website at a later date to see what has been added. There is a small collection of more modern printed books, such as a first edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species, and a copy of Shakespeare’s poem Rape of Lucrece published in his lifetime. Even if you can’t read Latin, some of them have beautiful illuminations, which may inspire a novel you are setting in medieval times. Brush up on your Latin to read some of the over 570 medieval manuscripts now available. Trinity College’s Wren Library has begun digitizing important works from its collections and making them available online. WREN DIGITAL LIBRARY, TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Chawton House has a close association with Jane Austen, whose elder brother Edward inherited the property. The books “explore such broad-ranging themes as satire, slavery, marriage, witchcraft and piracy.” The intent is to expose the books to a wider audience and to make scholarly study easier. Authors include Aphra Behn, Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson, Penelope Aubin, and a range of anonymous works.
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The Chawton House Library, which “foster research and understanding of early women writers,” has made full text transcriptions of some of the rare novels in its library, ranging from 1600-1830, accessible for free. Reproduced with permission from Chawton House staffĪ good way to prepare yourself to write a novel about another era is to read a novel actually written in that era.
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