Women’s Writing & History
British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries (Alexander St., 2005)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Database with 100K+ pages of letters and diaries penned by 500 women between 1558 and 1945
A Celebration of Women Writers (Mary Mark Ockerbloom, 1994– )
Early, expansive aggregator of websites featuring texts by and info on hundreds of women writers
Collective Biographies of Women (U. of Virginia/NINES, 2004– )
Alison Booth’s annotated bibliography of books in English offering brief biographies of at least 3 women
Corvey Women Writers on the Web (Sheffield Hallam U., 2001)
Searchable bibliography of women’s texts from 1796-1834 in Corvey Collection (see “Euro. Lit, 1790-1840” below)
Defining Gender (Adam Matthew, 2010)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Collection of ephemeral documents on gender, leisure, and consumer culture in 18c/19c UK
European Literature, 1790-1840: Corvey Collection (Gale NCCO, 2012)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Scans of Corvey library’s 9,500 English, French, and German titles, mostly popular novels by or for women
History of Women Writers: The Romantic Period (2020)
General overview of 20 women writers with links to associated sites
Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander St., 2007)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Stephen Behrendt’s scholarly edition of 80+ vols. of Irish women’s poetry from 1768 to 1842
The Lady’s Magazine: The Emergence of a Genre (U. of Kent, 2016)
Index and other resources for studying magazine’s entire 1770-1818 run; created by Jennie Batchelor-led team
NEWW Women Writers Database (Huygens Inst., 2014– )
Database for studying the publication and reception of European women writers through 1914
The Poetess Archive (Texas A&M U., 2007)
Laura Mandell’s database with texts by late-Romantic “poetesses” and intro to annuals featuring their work
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander St., 2002)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Nancy Kushigian and Stephen Behrendt’s scholarly edition of 60 vols. of poetry by Scottish women
Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing (Kirstyn Leuner, 2012– )
Introduction to and catalog of 19c Britain’s largest collection of Anglophone women’s writing
Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana U., 2003)
E-texts of lesser-known women writers from 1830-1930; TEI and other updates scheduled for 2018
Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900 (Cornell U. Library, 2002)
Online exhibit based on MSS and books in library’s collections
Women: Transnational Networks (Gale NCCO, 2013)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Primary sources showing intersections of gender and class in US and Europe during long 19c
Women Writers in Context (WWP at Northeastern U., 2017– )
Scholarly “exhibits” on texts and themes in the WWO (see below); open-access but WWO texts behind paywall
WWO: Women Writers Online (WWP at Northeastern U., 1999– )![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
375 transcribed works written in English by women between 1450 and 1850 (subscribers-only area of WWP)
WWP: Women Writers Project (Northeastern U., 1988– )
Leading digital hub for research on women’s writing pre-1850 (formerly at Brown U.; partially open-access)
Women’s Print History Project (Michelle Levy, 2019– )
Comprehensive bibliography of women’s contributions to print culture from 1750-1830
Women’s Studies Archive: Women’s Issues & Identities (Gale, 2017)![](https://ron.openum.ca/files/sites/140/2018/09/Lock-superscript-2-e1536704268744.jpg)
Digitized MSS and periodical articles related to 19c/20c women’s movement in UK and US
Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840 (Benjamin Colbert, 2014– )
Comprehensive bio-bibliographical database of known travel books by British and Irish women