Women writing

This collection of links focuses on women in literary culture with an emphasis on the early-modern period/long eighteenth century. It is by no means complete; please feel free to suggest further links in the comments.

UNB students: start with the very useful UNB Libraries: English Guides

This page:
Collections and projects
Individual authors
Journals
Organizations

Collections and projects:

• The Bluestocking Archive (public access)
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 
• Chawton House Library 
• A Celebration of Women Writers: excellent resource since 1994
• Collective Biographies of Women: Alison Booth
• Corvey Women Writers on the Web
• Defining Gender: “original British source material” 1450–1910 (proprietary, UNB login)
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project, including Genre Fiction, Early Modern through the 18th Century, Abolition, Freedom, and Rights, and Women’s Advocacy
• Epistolae: medieval women’s letters
• The Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs: “cross-cultural resource for information on women’s history [that] spans more than four centuries” (UNB login)
• Grub Street: An Experiment in Visualizing the Marketplace for Publications on Feminism and Women’s Rights
• Leverhulme International Network on ‘Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe’
• Ellen Moody: From the Women’s Canon: Foremother Poets
• Orlando: women’s writing in the British Isles (UNB login)
• The Perdita Project: : “early modern women’s manuscript compilations”
• The Poetess Archive: “late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular poetry” (open access)
• Recent Studies and Editions of 18th-Century Women Writers, Readers, and Publishers (James May, 1999; 2000)
• Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
• Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing: “a digital humanities project that studies the largest private library of Anglophone women’s writing collected in the nineteenth century”
• Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders and Book Designers
• Victorian Women Letters Project: Anna Brownell Murphy Jameson; Harriet Martineau
• Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana U)
• Women in Book History: a bibliography (Cait Coker and Kate Ozment)
• Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840: A Bio-Bibliographical Database 
• Women Writers: An Exhibition of Works from the 17th Century to the Present: Rare book exhibit, UNT Libraries
• Women Writers’ Network
• Women Writers Online: “a long-term research project devoted to early modern women’s writing and electronic text encoding”
• Women Writers Online: An Evaluation and Annotated Bibliography of Web Resources (Georgianna Ziegler)
• Women Writers Project: “a long-term research project devoted to early modern women’s writing and electronic text encoding” (supplementary materials publicly accessible)
• Women’s Literary Culture before the Conquest

Individual authors:

• Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition 
• The Jane Austen Information Page 
• Calendars for Jane Austen’s Novels 
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld Website: a collaborative hypertext project
• The Aphra Behn Society: “celebrating women and the arts, 1660–1830”
• The Sign of Angelica: an Aphra Behn website
• International Margaret Cavendish Society
• The Sarah Fielding Project
• Anne Finch Digital Archive (open-access)
• The Gaskell Society
• Bibliography of Felicia Hemans 
• Chronology for Felicia Hemans and her Circle
• Digital Mitford: the Mary Russell Mitford Archive 
• The Amelia Alderson Opie Archive 
• Mary Darby Robinson Bibliography 
• Shelley-Godwin Archive 
• Women’s Travel Diaries, Duke U
• Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship 

Journals:

• Early Modern Women Journal
• Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies: “a peer-reviewed, online journal”

Organizations:
[See also Individual authors]

• British Women Writers Association: “for scholars of 18th-19th century British women writers” including excellent links
• Broad Universe: “an international, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, encouraging, honoring, and celebrating women writers and editors in science fiction, fantasy, horror and other speculative genres”
• FeministSF.org: “a bibliography [of] sf & critical works from a feminist perspective”
• The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
• James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award: “an award encouraging the exploration & expansion of gender”

[Linked image on Library page: Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo, Richard Samuel, 1778.]