This is the English novel collection for the ELTeC, the European Literary Text Collection, produced by the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History (CA16204, https://distant-reading.net).

General information about ELTeC releases is available at https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC.

The ELTeC-eng collection contains a total of 100 titles, 87 encoded at level 1, and 13 at level 0. The corpus composition criteria have been observed as far as possible, and a conscious effort has been made to maximise diversity in the types of novels included. Release 1.0.1 has the following DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4662490.

• Collection editor: Lou Burnard
• Sources: Project Gutenberg; Digital Library Program of Indiana University; Oxford Text Archive; Project Bartleby; Chadwyck-Healey; and various websites, including CCEL; GeraldMassey.org.uk; fiftywordsforsnow.com; ebooks@adelaide; www.digital-eel.com.

All texts included in this collection are in the public domain. The textual markup is provided with a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 licence (CC BY, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

English Novel Corpus (ELTeC-eng), edited by Lou Burnard. In: European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC). COST Action Distant Reading for European Literature. Version 1.0.1, April 2021. URL: https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-eng, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3533868.