Literature help over the next few months

Just like fashion magazines, who prepare their Christmas issues in the summer and do swimsuit spreads in November, so here at Crossref-it.info we are preparing materials which won’t hit your screens for a while. But we thought it might help to know what’s in the pipeline, so that you can see what will be available when you come to learn, revise, or teach texts in your chosen syllabus.

Comprehensive text guides

In the next 12 months there will be new text guides on these works, set by the following exam boards:

• Summer 2010: Selected poems of Christina Rossetti (AQA, OCR)
• Autumn 2010: Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rys (AQA, Edexcel, OCR)
• Winter 2010/11: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue & Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer (AQA, Cambs. Pre U., Edexcel)
• Spring 2011: The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Attwood (AQA, Edexcel)
• Summer 2011: Persuasion, by Jane Austen (Cambs. Pre U., OCR)

Quick context guides

If you can’t wait that long, we are soon to produce some ‘quick links’ pages, showing you where you can find helpful contextual material, relevant to selected texts. Currently under development, these include:

• Hard Times, by Charles Dickens (AQA, CIE)
• The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy (Cambs. Pre U.)
• Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (AQA, Edexcel, OCR)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy (CIE)
• Selected poems of Thomas Hardy (AQA, CIE, Edexcel)
• Selected poems of Coleridge, Keats, Wordsworth (AQA, CIE, OCR)
• Selected poems of the Brontës (AQA)

Your suggestions?

Alongside all of the above, articles on different aspects of context and literature keep being added to Crossref-it.info.

If you have got suggestions of works or aspects of literature that you would like to see featured on the site, please email us at admin@crossref-it.info.

We want to do whatever helps you!