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.]
