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class=480341309-16042000>Some good starting points are. These aren't
corpora in the sense of being organised text collections, but they offer a good
range of public domain pre-twentieth century texts (not all of which is
fiction/poetry.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=480341309-16042000>Oxford Text Archive <A
href="http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/">http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=480341309-16042000>Project Gutenburg </SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=#0000ff face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=480341309-16042000><A
href="http://www.promo.net/pg/">http://www.promo.net/pg/</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=480341309-16042000>University of Virginia_ English Electronic Texts
Resources </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=480341309-16042000><A
href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/english.html">http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/english.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=480341309-16042000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=480341309-16042000>Regards</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=480341309-16042000>Chris Tribble</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> owner-corpora@lists.uib.no
[mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no]<B>On Behalf Of </B>T.
Murphy<BR><B>Sent:</B> 16 April 2000 11:16<BR><B>To:</B>
corpora@hd.uib.no<BR><B>Subject:</B> Corpora: Availability of British 18th and
19th Century Corpora<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anybody have information on the availability
of 18th and 19th century British written corpora?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am particulalry interested in material which is
freely accessible or readily downloadable or relatively
affordable.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am a relative newcomer to this field of
research, so all leads are greatly appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dr. Terry Murphy</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dept. of English</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yonsei University</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Seoul,
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