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A.S. Byatt: An Overview. http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/uk/byatt/byattov.html. Last accessed: 7 December 2004.
This Web site is part of the National University of Singapore's University Scholars Programme's Postcolonial Web project. It includes pages on the following topics related to Byatt: Themes, Works, Literary Relations, History, Religion, Science, Characterization, Setting, Imagery, and Narrative. Each of these pages consists of a list of links to (usually) brief documents written by students. The vast majority of these deal with Possession, but a few are comparative (e.g., “The Enclosed Space in the Neo-Victorian Works of Swift, Byatt and Carey” and some lead to another National University of Singapore project, the Victorian Web.
A.S. Byatt Home Page. http://www.asbyatt.com. Last accessed: 7 December 2004.
This page, which is very out of date and is updated irregularly, claims it is “still under development.” The most current section is the “Diary,” which lists Byatt’s schedule through May 2005. The other sections are “Titles,” which provides cover images and publishing information, but not links to booksellers; “Essays and Articles,” which includes links to several essays written by Byatt; “Contacts,” which includes contact information for Byatt’s British and American publishers and agents; and “Bibliography,” the most valuable section, which consists of an annotated bibliography of her work and work about her. The bibliography was created by Alexa Alfer and Michael D. Crane, who claim: “Our objective has been to prepare a selective and briefly annotated checklist to her publications, and those about her works, since the release of her first novel, Shadow of a Sun, in 1964. We have not set a cut-off date, and have continued to make additions to the list up until the last moment.” However, the list does not appear to have been updated since 1999. On the other hand, it is quite complete, so researchers may still find it helpful.
Contemporary Writers. http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth20. Last accessed: 7 December 2004.
The British Council describes its Contemporary Writers Web site as follows: “Detailed biographical and bibliographical information on over 250 UK and Commonwealth authors. Constantly updated with 10 new authors added every month. Search by author, genre, nationality, gender, publisher, title, and prize.” The Byatt page is a useful place for researchers to begin their work. The section entitled “Critical Perspective” is especially helpful.
Featured Author: A.S. Byatt. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/13/specials/byatt.html. Last accessed: 7 December 2004.
This page includes links to all Byatt features from the New York Times. These include reviews, audio files, and articles by and about Byatt. The reviews date back to 1964, when Byatt’s first novel was published. The inclusion of all of these features on one page simplifies things for the researcher by making it unnecessary to go through a search process on the Times home page or in a database. In addition, the full text of the articles is provided, whereas the Times home page requires payment for the full text of older articles. Finally, it will be helpful for researchers to compare these articles with the scholarly works listed elsewhere in the pathfinder.