English 197 Corpora Folder on Google Drive

We drew works of fiction (mostly novels, but including some short fiction) from all the subcategories on that bookshelf, constraining our selection to works published in the 1880s.  Works in our adult fiction corpus came from the corpus of 2,731 nineteenth-century British novels given to us by the Stanford Literary Lab (originally gathered by the Lab from the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg). (Our thanks to Ryan Heuser of the Stanford Literary Lab.) We constrained our selection to male and female authored novels of the 1880s.

Below are links to zip files containing specific corpora in the form of plain-text files.  (These are the files for the full works.  Other zip files in the corpora folder contain works scrubbed in Lexos using Matthew Jockers's stoplist, and also works chunked into 1,000-word segments.)

Adult British Fiction - 1880s (451 works) (metadata spreadsheet)

• Female Corpus (237 works) (metadata)
• Male Corpus (214 works) (metadata)

Children's Fiction - 1880s (135 works) (metadata spreadsheet)

• American Corpus (33 works)
• European Corpus (102 works) (includes a few Continental European works in addition to the British and American works in this corpus)
• Female Corpus (28 works)
• Male Corpus (107 works)
• British Female Corpus (14 works)
• British Male Corpus (89 works)