Basic structure of HUM19UK

The corpus contains 100 complete novels written by 100 authors (50 male/50 female) over 100 years (1800–1899), with roughly 10 novels per decade. It totals 13 million words.

A file with the complete list of texts included is available for download.

Genre

The corpus contains 19th-century fiction only, spanning 1800–1899.

Sociolinguistic coverage

The corpus contains texts by UK-based authors only.