Early American Fiction Collection (1789-1875)

The individual author profiles include various biographical sketches, links to other online texts at the University of Virginia, and connections to selected other resources on the Web.

The biographies include 19^th-century pieces such as Samuel Austin Allibone's A Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1856) and Evert A. Duyckinck's Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1856). While these may be old-fashioned in their language and form, they nonetheless provide a valuable view of these authors, and often contain quotations from contemporary critics and journals.