Feminist Studies Collections

Kathy Kerns, Feminist Studies Bibliographer; kkerns@stanford.edu; (650) 725-1186

Internet Resources: Women Writers

General | American | British | Worldwide

WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Culture Web Sites from Association of College and Research Libraries Women's Studies Section.
Women Writers - links from the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian.
Literature links from Women-Related WWW Sites in the Arts and Humanities by Joan Korenman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
A Celebration of Women Writers - "a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women."
The Brown University Women Writers Project creating an "electronic textbase of women's writing in English before 1830."
Emory Women Writers Resource Project - "a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century."
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia from Laura Doyle.
Fiction part of electronic Women's Studies Database Reading Room maintained at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Women Romantic Era Writers maintained by Adriana Craciun (Loyola University, Chicago) - links to texts and related web resources.
Women Writers of the Middle Ages from Bonnie Duncan (Millersville University)
Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930: A Women's Studies Digitization Project Initiative (University of Minnesota) - "Our plan is to include women travellers from and to the United States, as well as selected American and European women travellers to non-Western areas."

MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography, 1963+ - index to modern literature, modern languages, and folklore. Also available through Folio. Stanford community only.
British and Commonwealth Literary Studies: and American Literary Studies: Special Collections and Uncataloged Resources - describe a wealth of resources including:
- Women Advising Women -microfilm of respresentative women's journals, almanacs, and advice books dating from 1625-1837, drawn from the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
- Women, Education and Literature: the Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849 - microfilm copies of literary manuscripts, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers of the author.
Web-based Electronic Resources for American Literary Studies Stanford community only.

Women's Writing - contents information. A paper copy of the journal itself is located in Green Library (PR111.W654, latest in Current Periodicals and Microtexts).

19CWWW: 19th Century American Women Writers Web
Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (in the U.S.) - "This site includes biographical and bibliographical information about the writers included as well as images and audio files which pertain to the writer whenever possible." (University of Minnesota)
Hypertexts from the University of Virginia, including Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and others.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library Digital Library Collections: Digital Schomburg)
Making Face, Making Soul: a Chicana feminist homepage
Latin American Women Writers, v. 1, issue 2, Winter 1993-1994 of the latin america resource review, a publication of the Resource Center of the Americas (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Emily Dickinson
- Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886. Stanford only.
- Emily Dickinson
H.D. Home Page

The Orlando Project - "a collaborative enterprise combining interdisciplinary research and humanities computing to produce the first full scholarly history of women's writing in the British Isles." (University of Alberta)
Victorian Women Writers Project producing "transcriptions of literary works by British writers of the late 19th century."
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (Alderman Library, University of Virginia)
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832: An Electronic Collection of Texts from the Shields Library (University of California, Davis)
British Women's Novels: A Reading List, 1777-1818 (with some abstracts) by Catherine Decker.
The Bluestocking Archive - "an archive of texts by or relating to the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle and the second generation Blues..."

the kassandra project "aims to be an introduction to German women writers, artists, and thinkers during the second half of the eighteenth century through the first decades of the nineteenth."
sawnet bookshelf: Books by and for South Asian women.
A Guide to Writings By and About Women in Pre-Independent India (Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota)

Last modified: August 25, 2008