Primary sources for literary research can include a writer's novels, poems, essays, and other writings. Primary sources can also include correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts. They can even include contemporaneous writings from other sources (such as newspaper articles, books, pamphlets, and letters and diaries of contemporaries). When searching the library catalog, try adding the term "sources" to your search to find primary sources.
Here are just a few examples of primary sources for literary research in our library collection. If you need help finding primary sources for your research, just ask a librarian.
The electronic edition of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats contains the three volumes of The Collected Letters which have appeared in print. In addition, it includes all of the letters from the remaining eleven (unpublished) volumes; final editing and annotation of these volumes is still in progress.
Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts by 
The Moonstone: A Romance by 
The Voice of Toil: Nineteenth-century British Writings About Work by Secondary sources offer analysis and interpretation of primary sources. Secondary sources can include (but are not limited to) books, scholarly articles, journalistic articles, and reference works (reference works are also sometimes referred to as tertiary sources).
Here are a few examples of secondary sources in our collection. If you need help finding primary sources for your research, just ask a librarian.
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by 
Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-siècle CultureWhen searching the library catalog,
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