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British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832: Collection of poetry by British and Irish women written between 1789, the onset of the French Revolution, and 1832, the passage of the Reform Act, a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period. Features a browsable list of authors.
Author: University of California Davis Shields Library
Subjects: english poetry, irish literature, women writers
DeweyClass: 809.1
Resource type: poems
Celebration of Women Writers: An extensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women.
Author: Ockerbloom, Mary Mark & Ockerbloom, John Mark
Subjects: women writers
DeweyClass: 808.8
Resource type: book collection, index
Chawton House Library: Provides details of the reference library and study centre aimed at promoting the study of English women's writing from 1600 to 1830. Also includes access to full-text electronic novels and traces the history of the house and surrounding gardens to the Neolithic period.
Author: Chawton House Library
Subjects: women writers
DeweyClass: 820
Resource type: books, documents
Emma Goldman Papers: Project aiming to collect, organise, and edit documents from around the world about Emma Goldman (1869-1940), the early radical feminist. Includes information about Goldman's life, and an overview of publications written about her. Also includes excerpts from the Emma Goldman travelling papers exhibition.
Author: University of California Berkeley
Subjects: women in history, women writers, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: documents
Emory Women Writers Resource Project: Collection of women's writing from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, including works by Margaret Cavendish, Anne Wentworth and Aphra Behn.
Author: Emory Women Writers Resource Project
Subjects: american literature to 1900, women writers
DeweyClass: 808.89
Resource type: documents
French Feminist Theory: Collection of resources focusing upon French feminism, with sections on individual writers. Includes interviews, bibliographies, biographical details, and journal articles.
Author: University of Iowa
Subjects: feminism, gender studies, women writers
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: articles, bibliography, biography
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World: Text of over 100 speeches by Madeline Albright, Mother Teresa, Mary Robinson and Naomi Wolf.
Author: Sweet Briar College
Subjects: rhetoric, women writers, women's studies
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: documents
Glasgow Women's Library: The Glasgow Women's Library aims to provide an information resource relevant to all areas of women’s lives, history, culture and achievements. Details are available on the various collections held, the range of projects co-ordinated by Library staff (including literacy and numeracy initiatives), as well as upcoming events.
Author: Glasgow Women's Library
Subjects: feminism, gender studies, special libraries, women in history, women writers, women's studies
DeweyClass: 305.4
Resource type: documents, images, news
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening: Documentary celebrating Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', published in 1899. Now considered a valuable contribution to the women's movement in the 20th century, the novel was initially rejected and lost for over 50 years. Information includes transcripts, a chronology of events in Chopin's life, an interview with her grandson, articles about her work, and bibliographies of criticism.
Author: Public Broadcasting Service
Subjects: american literature to 1900, women in history, women writers
DeweyClass: 813
Resource type: documents, moving images
New York Public Library Digital Library Collection: Ongoing digital library initiative providing primary source materials from the Library including digital versions of books, manuscripts, photographs and engravings. Includes Images of African Americans from the 19th Century, African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project, A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: The Spanish-American Conflict, Moving Uptown: Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan and Dry Drunk: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-Century Europe.
Author: New York Public Library
Subjects: african americans, united states culture, united states history - general, women writers
DeweyClass: 973
Resource type: documents, images
Oppression of Prophecy: Quaker Women in Late Seventeenth Century Yorkshire: Evangelical and prophetic texts by the seventeenth century Quaker writers Judith Boulbie and Mary Waite.
Author: Emory Women Writers Resource Project
Subjects: christian texts, rhetoric, women writers
DeweyClass: 808.89
Resource type: documents
Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920: Includes biographies of 35 women who played a prominent part in the struggle for equality, a database of written primary sources produced by, or about, these thirty-five women and a collection of visual images that reflect the different views on the emancipation of women. Includes cartoons from The Vote Magazine, Punch and Anti-Suffrage Postcards.
Author: Spartacus Educational
Subjects: women in history, women writers, women's rights
DeweyClass: 305
Resource type: biography, documents, images
Topica: Books: An automated catalogue of numerous mailing lists relevant to books, with descriptions and subscription details.
Author: Topica
Subjects: contemporary fiction, creative writing, literary studies, women writers
DeweyClass: 800
Resource type: mailinglist index
Victorian Women Writers Project: Features transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. Works are selected with the assistance of an advisory Board, and include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
Author: Walsh, John
Subjects: literary studies, women writers
DeweyClass: 808.89
Resource type: directory
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color: Designed as a teaching resource, this focuses on women writers of colour in the United States. Includes biographical and bibliographical information and is organised by name, by place of birth, by significant dates, and according to ethnic/racial identity.
Author: University of Minnesota
Subjects: american literature - general, ethnic literature, women writers
DeweyClass: 810
Resource type: biography, guide
Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Colour: Project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of colour in North America. The Voices project is made possible through an ongoing collaborative effort between faculty and students in the Department of English and the Program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Author: Department of English, University of Minnesota
Subjects: literary studies, women writers
DeweyClass: 808.89
Resource type: project
Women Romantic-Era Writers: A collection of electronic transcriptions of literature by women romantic-era writers.
Author: Craciun, Adriana
Subjects: literary studies, women writers
DeweyClass: 808.89
Resource type: directory
Women Writers: Biannual, peer-reviewed journal providing a guide to women writers with scholarly articles, book reviews, fiction, and poetry. An individual author is featured in each issue.
Author: Wells, Kim
Subjects: women writers, women's issues, writing skills
DeweyClass: 809.89
Resource type: journal
Women Writers Project: A collection of primarily pre-Victorian (1450-1850) literature written by women. Texts include the Petition of the Jews by Joanna Cartwright, Feudal Tales by Caroline Maxell and works by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, and Elizabeth I.
Author: Brown University
Subjects: women writers
DeweyClass: 809.89
Resource type: book collection