The new website, Discovering Literature, includes the manuscripts of authors such as Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Dickens and Wilde.
Postings on the website begin with the Romantic and Victorian periods and as well as the novels themselves, include a range of other materials such as handwritten manuscripts, diaries, letters alongside original documents from the time the authors lived in, such as newspaper clippings, adverts and photographs.
The website also offers the largest collection of childhood writings of the Brontë sisters, and other unique artefacts which shed new light on their life and works.
It comes as a survey of 520 English teachers revealed that 82 per cent feel that students today find it hard to identify with classic authors and their work.
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