Specialty Collections:

Women's Writing

For links of interest to active writers, check out Writers Write -- The Writer Resource at http://writerswrite.com, and www.Writing.Com as well as other sites listed below. In addition, Victoria Strauss' site Writer Beware! at http://www.sfwa.org/beware/ is a must-read source of information about publishing scams of which every aspiring writer should be aware. Also, Writers Free Reference at http://www.writers-free-reference.com has useful listings of agents to contact, and to avoid!

• 17th Century Women Poets by Susanne Webel (susanne.webel@Uni-Koeln.DE)
• American Women's Dime Novel Project from Felicia Carr (fcarr1@gmu.edu) at George Mason University
• Autorinnen German-Language Women Writers
• Belle Assemblee: The Bluestocking Archive by Elizabeth Fay (efay@umbsky.cc.umb.edu) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Blouse Roumaine: Romanian Women Writers by Constantin Roman
• The Brown University Women Writers Project (Subscription only) Karen Murphy, Project Coordinator (Karen_Murphy@Brown.edu) at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
• Chawton House Library and Early Women's Writing from Jacqui Grainger (jacqui.grainger@chawton.net)
• Collective Biographies of Women from Alison Booth (ab6j@virginia.edu)
• The Corvey Project at the University of Nebraska
• DARIANA Literaria: Nicaraguan Women Poets from Yolanda M. Blanco (ymblanco@interport.net)
• Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (at nypl.org)
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An On-line Archival Collection from Special Collections Library, Duke University
• Domestic Goddesses from Kim Wells
• Domestic or Sentimental Fiction, 1820-1860 from Donna M. Campbell
• Epistolæ: Medieval Women's Letters translated by Professor Joan Ferrante of Columbia University
• Early Modern French Women Writers Miranda Beaven Remnek, Project Director (m-remn@tc.umn.edu)
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project Sheila Cavanagh, Director
• FemBio Biographical Database from Luise F. Pusch (lfp@fembio.org)
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index from Margaret Schaus (mschaus@haverford.edu) at Haverford College
• Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopia
• Feminist Theory Website from Kristin Switala (Kristin-Switala@utc.edu)
• Femmes Ecrivains et la litterature africaines [pages in both French and English] from (jvolet@cyllene.uwa.edu.au) at the University of Western Australia
• Franco-American Women's Institute
• Girls Write Now
• Godey's Ladies' Book
  • 1850: courtesy of Roger Corrie, University of Rochester.
  • 1855-1859: courtesy of Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont.
  • Selected fashion plates from 1863 to 1883.
• Honno Welsh Women's Press
• The International Centre for Women Playwrights
• International Women's Literature Webpage at Endicott College
• The International Women's Writing Guild
• Iranian Women Poets from Katy and Mahmud Kianush (katy@artarena.force9.co.uk)
• Isle of Lesbos: Lesbian Poetry (feedback@sappho.com)
• Italian Women Writers from the University of Chicago
• L'ÎLE, le sur la littérature québécoise
• Maine Women Writers Collection from University of New England Libraries
• Medieval Women Writers from Laurie Churchill at ljchurch@cc.owu.edu for The Five Colleges of Ohio Consortium
• Munster Women Writers Project from University College, Cork, Ireland. Contact Project Researcher, Tina O'Toole (tina.otoole@ucc.ie)
• National Association of Women Writers from Sheri L. McConnell (naww@onebox.com)
• National Women and Media Collection at the University of Missouri
• Native American Women Playwrights Archive
• The On-line Archive of Nineteenth Century U.S. Women's Writings from Glynis Carr (gcarr@bucknell.edu) at Bucknell University
• The Orange Prize for Contemporary Women's Writing in English (editor@prize.orange.co.uk)
• The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles from the University of Alberta and the University of Guelph (Orlando.Project@ualberta.ca)
• Other Women's Voices: women writers before 1600 from Dorothy Disse (voices@akron.infi.net)
• The Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700
• Portraits of Women Writers, 1775-1820 from Cathy Decker (cathy@cassandra.ucr.edu) at the Regency Fashion Page
• REBRA: Rede de Escritoras Brasileiras Brazilian Women Writers network [in Portuguese]
• The Romance Club
• Scribbling Women, a project of The Public Media Foundation.
• She Writes
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers
• Sunsite Women and Literature (cheryb@sunsite.unc.edu)
• The Victorian Women Writers Project from Perry Willett (pwillett@indiana.edu) at the University of Indiana
• Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color (voices@tc.umn.edu) from the University of Minnesota
• Wit: Women in Theatre from Sarah Young (sayruh@wwisp.com)
• "Woman in American Literature" by Helen Gray Cone. Century Magazine 1890, Volume 40, pp. 921-930
• Women Children's Book Illustrators from Denise Ortakales (denise@ortakales.com)
• Women Romantic-Era Writers by Adriana Craciun (a.craciun@bbk.ac.uk) at Birkbeck, University of London
• Women Writers' Networks: Internet and the gendered study of literary history directed by Suzan van Dijk (Suzan.vanDijk@let.uu.nl)
• WOW! Women On Writing Ezine by Angela Mackintosh (editors@wow-womenonwriting.com)

Writing (includes writing by women)

• 19th Century Girls' Series Books from Deidre Johnson (daj9999@yahoo.com)
• Alyson Publications Home Page: The Leading Publisher of Gay and Lesbian Books
• Anachron Library
• Ask About Writing: an Internet resource for writers in Ireland and Britain Edited by Brendan Nolan (news@askaboutwriting.net)
• Bohemian Ink
• British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions from Jerome McGann (jjm2f@lizzie.engl.virginia.edu) and David Seaman (etext@virginia.edu) at the University of Virginia
• Broadview Press (Canadian small press: Editions include many hard-to-find women's works)
• The Camelot Project from Alan Lupack (alupack@rcl.lib.rochester.edu) at the University of Rochester
• The Canadian Literature Archive from David Arnason (arnasn@cc.umanitoba.ca) and Dennis Cooley (dcooley@cc.umanitoba.ca)
• The Canadian Children's Book Centre
• Canadian Poetry Project from Ian Lancashire (ian@chass.utoronto.ca) Sophia Kaszuba (sophia@library.utoronto.ca) and Sian Meikle (sian@library.utoronto.ca)
• The Children's Literature Web Guide by David K. Brown (dkbrown@acs.ucalgary.ca) at the University of Calgary
• The ClueLass Home Page
• Contemporary Finnish Poetry
• Crime and Mystery Fiction from embden11@xs4all.nl
• Crime Writers of Canada
• DangerouslyCurvy Novels (Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines) from Jennifer Henderson (curvynovels@yahoo.com)
• Danish Writers Living in Aarhus [in Danish] from Sofie Fredborg (sf@akb.bib.dk) at Aarhus Library, Aarhus, Denmark
• Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
• Digital Freedom Network: Silenced Voices from Siobhan Dowd in cooperation with the Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International.
• Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren
• DIOTIMA: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World by Ross Scaife (scaife@pop.uky.edu) and Suzanne Bonefas (bonefas@hippokrene.colleges.org)
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present by Danuta Bois (dbois@distinguishedwomen.com)
• Documenting the American South
• The Eclectics
• English and American Literature Collection at Indiana University, Bloomington
• English Literature on the Web from Mitsuhara Matsuoka (matsuoka@lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp) in Japan
• The English Server from Geoffrey Sauer (webmaster@eserver.org) at Iowa State University
• Gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database at the University of Cologne (database.genderinn@uni-koeln.de)
• The Girls' Own Paper Index (1880-1941) by E. Honor Ward
• Go Publish Yourself: Empowering Writers through Self-Publishing edited by Christopher Willitts (christopher@go-publish-yourself.com)
• Hebrew Authors from The Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature.
• Indigenous Peoples Literature by Glenn Welker (nativelit@earthlink.net)
• Idaho Writer's League
• Italian American women writers at Italian American Press, from Ralph Ferraro
• January Magazine from Linda Richards (scribe@smartypants.net)
• KYLIT: A Site devoted to Kentucky Writers from the English Department at Eastern Kentucky University.
• The Literary Gothic from Jack Voller (jvoller@siue.edu)
• Literary Resources on the Net from Jack Lynch (jlynch@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
• The Literary Traveller On-line articles and real-world tours.
• The Luminarium [1350-1660] by Anniina Jokinen (anniina@alchemyweb.com)
• Manitoba Author Publication Index
• MATEO -- Frauen des Humanismus
• The Mississippi Writers Page
• Modern American Poetry
• Native American Authors from the Internet Public Library
• New Zealand Book Council
• Ngiyaw Ebooks (mostly in German)
• New Works Review A Quarterly on-line publication for unpublished writers, poets, artists (new-works@worldnet.att.net)
• The Orb: Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies from Kathryn Talarico (Editor@the-orb.net) at City University of New York
• Pegasos, A Literature Related Resource and its Index of Authors
• Poets on the Line [on-going Anthology] by Andrew Gettler & Linda Lerner (llerner@mindspring.com)
• Polish Writing
• The Romance Authors Page from Nettrends (info@nettrends.com)
• The Romance Club Home Page
• Romantic Circles [Byron, Keats, Percy and Mary Shelley, etc.] (rc155@umail.umd.edu)
• Saskatchewan Writers Guild
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SWFA)
• Senior Women Web: Culture and Arts from Tam Gray
• S. F. Canada (formerly Speculative Writers Association of Canada) c/o Karl Schroeder (sfc@helios.physics.utoronto.ca)
• The S.F. Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (editor@sfsite.com)
• SFFNet: Science Fiction and Fantasy Net
• Sophie: A Digital Library of Early German Women's Writing
• Spinifex Press (independent feminist press located in Australia)
• Storytellers: Native American Authors On-line from Karen Strom (kstrom@hanksville.phast.umass.edu)
• Twentieth-century Poetry in English (hishika@kobe-u.ac.jp)
• Undergraduate Victorian Studies Online Teaching Anthology from Laura Dale Bischof, at The University of Minnesota
• The Victorian Web by George Landau (George_Landow@brown.edu) at Brown University
• Villa Decius: Polish Literature - Literatura Polska
• Violet Books: Antiquarian Fantasy, Supernatural & Mysterious Literatures from Jessica Amanda Salmonson. (paghat@violetbooks.com)
• Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature from Alan Liu
• Wordwrights Canada: Canadian Links of Interest to Writers from Susan Ioannou (susanio@sympatico.ca)
• Writing Canada into the Millenium: Canadian Poets Online
• Writing Speculative Fiction by Mary Soon Lee [how to deal with the SF/Fantasy/Speculative Fiction market]

Women in History and Culture

• 4000 Years of Women in Science (crock@kudzu.astr.ua.edu)
• African-American Women On-line Archival Collections from the Special Collections Library at Duke University
• American Women's History: A Research Guide from Ken Middleton (kmiddlet@frank.mtsu.edu) at Middle Tennesse State University
• Chicana Studies by Romelia Salinas (salinas@clnet.ucr.edu) at the University of California
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics: A Project of the American Physical Society
• Genesis: Women's History Sources for the British Isles from Victoria Killick (killick@lgu.ac.uk)
• Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
• Internet Women's History Sourcebook from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Jewish Women's Archive
• Literary Women of the Left Bank (dback@20ruejacob.com)
• Making Face, Making Soul... a Chicana feminist homepage
• The National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 [includes books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the campaign for woman suffrage] from American Memory, Library of Congress (ndlpcoll@loc.gov)
• The National Organization for Women (NOW) Home Page
• National Women's History Project [United States of America]
• Notable Kansas Women from the Kansas Historical Society
• Robin's Nest for Writers and Web-surfers from Robin Nobles (smslady@netdoor.com)
• Sally Bingham Centre for Women's History and Culture
• Sophia Smith Collection Finding Aids from Smith College <1--
• Sunshine for Women [news, views, history, women's studies, and more] from Pat Cross (sunshine@pinn.net) -->
• Swarthmore College Peace Collection [about 50% by women] (wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu)
• UMD picture gallery
• The Valley of the Shadow [American Civil War site; includes letters and diaries by women]
• The Varo Registry of Women Artists
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Some documents freely accessible, some by subscription)
• Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters during WWII from the Library of Congress
• Women Composers
• Women in Polish History
• Women in Vietnam
• Women Nobel Prize Laureates from The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
• Women of Horror from Horror Masters HM@HorrorMasters.com
• Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society
• The Women's Review of Books [promotion of print journal] from Linda Gardiner (lgardiner@wellesley.edu) at Wellesley College.