Links to Other Dime Novel Sites

Harvey, Charles M.. "The Dime Novel in American Life"
From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. This authoritative, somewhat scathing review of the dime novel genre appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1907.

Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
The original dime novels from Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport. Includes chapters on Deeds of Daring, Scenes of Thrilling, Peril, and Romantic Incidents In the Early Life of W. F. Cody, the Monarch of Bordermen.

The Albert Johannsen Dime Novel Collection
This collection includes Johannsen's notes, papers, dry plates, and memorabilia from when he wrote The House of Beadle and Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels and his career as a petrololgist and professor.

The Beadle and Adams Digitization Project at Northern Illinois University
The focus of this project is the digitization of Albert Johannsen's classic reference work The House of Beadle & Adams and the publications of Beadle & Adams. Completed works include Volume I of The House of Beadle & Adams, Beadle's Half-Dime Novelettes, Beadle's American Sixpenny Library, and Beadle's abolitionist dime novel, Maum Guinea.
Symposium on Dime Novels
Highlights of a two-day meeting titled "Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: The Library of Congress Symposium on Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks." Highlights of the symposium included author Madeleine B. Stern's lecture, Dime Novels by the `Children's Friend' (Louisa May Alcott)," and Duke University professor Janice A. Radway's talk on "Clearing a Space for Middlebrow Culture: The Struggle Over the Book, 1880-1920."
Russel B. Nye Collection
A description of the Russel B. Nye Collection of Popular Culture, including their selection of dime novels and pulps from 1860 to 1920.

The University of South Florida Special Collections
A description of the University of South Florida Tampa Campus Library Special Collections Department. The collection focuses on 19th century American literature, including a dime novel collection.

The Dime Novel Companion A Source Book By J. Randolph Cox
"This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales." Available from Greenwood Press.

Stanford University Discussion Group
Exlibris: A listserv devoted to rare books and special collections.

The Pulp Page
An introduction to the pulp magazines of the 1920's, '30's and '40's, including history, bibliography and links to other pulp sources. History covers dime novel publishing.

The Beadle and Adams Dime Novel Digitization Project
A multi-year initiative by the Northern Illinois University Libraries to further research on the topic of early American literature and Dime Novels. Concentration will be placed on digitizing The House of Beadle and Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels, the landmark bibliography by Albert Johannsen.

The Victorian Women Writers Project
This project is devoted to digitizing the work of British women writers of the Victorian period. At least two of the authors covered are related to the women's dime novel tradition, Mary E. Braddon and Ouida. These writers were not primarily dime novel writers, but their works were often reprinted in dime novel format by American publishers. Braddon in particular is important to the women's dime novel tradition, since her work was central to the development of sensationalism -- an element that became a key element in American women's dime novel romances.