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Authors: Photographs from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library. Features hundreds of portraits – prints and photographs – picturing more than 120 authors writing in English, primarily from the 1860s to the 1920s, and later, organized alphabetically by sitter.

Above: Virginia Woolf and Dame Ethel Smyth. Digital ID: 484383

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Your top overall English database:

• MLA International Bibliography 

Want to get more targeted? Here are the top two by area of emphasis.

English Teaching

• ERIC, The Education Resources Information Center
• ReadWriteThink.org
  A website with resources for reading language arts instruction, created by the NCTE and the International Reading Association.
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Linguistics

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
  Indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. 
• Oxford English Dictionary
  This is far more than just definitions. Find out the whole history of the word as well as its evolving meanings.
• more...
  

Literature

• MLA International Bibliography
  This is THE database to search for journal articles if you're in English, especially for Lit.
  
• Literature Resource Center
  The best place to get an introduction to an author or work is a literary criticism series published by Gale. This database allows you to search and read many of them in full text online, including the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
• more...
  

Technical Communication

• ComAbstracts
  Contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication field as well as bibliographic records and audio materials.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
  For articles on topics related to communication and mass media.
  
• more...

Writing

• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
  A wonderful place to read classic poetry, learn more about the authors, and even listen to recordings of authors reading their works.
• Books in Print
  Find information about any book that was, is, or will be in print, and all its editions.
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