Women Writers:
Starting Points for Internet Research

PENN STATE LIBRARY E-RESOURCES

The CAT - Penn State's online catalog.
WorldCat - Online catalog of many libraries, mostly U.S. Register with ILLiad before requesting books from other libraries.

Women's Issues
Contemporary Women's Issues
GenderWatch
North American Women's Letters and Diaries

Literature
MLA Bibliography
MUSE
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
JStor

Sociology
Sociological Abstracts
Social Science Abstracts
Women's Resources International

History
America: History and Life
Historical Abstracts
New York Times Historical (1851-2001)

INTERNET RESOURCES

Specialized Search Engines and Directories
FeMiNa - Specialized search engine indexing "female-friendly" sites.

General Sites
A Celebration of Women Writers - Lengthy listing of authors with links followed by sites of "women in history", "women's writing", "writing sites", and "bibliographies".

Specialized Sites
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - digital collection of 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers from the Schomburg Collection.
ARTFL French Women Writers Project - searchable database of works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.
Brown University's Women Writers Project - pre-1830 writings by women in all genres from medical texts, to texts of speeches by Elizabeth I, to literature and poetry.
Corvey Women Writers on the Web: An electronic guide to literature 1796–1834 - "...criticism and contextualisation, as well as biographies, bibliographies, images, synopses, contemporary reviews and keyword classifications of texts."
Emory Women Writers Resource Project - collection of texts by women writing in the 17th through 19th centuries.
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
The Orlando Project - the first full scholarly history of women’s writing in the British Isles.
Sawnet Bookshelf - books by and for South Asian Women
Victorian Women Writers Project

Sites by Author
A Celebration of Women Writers - Listing by Authors - Another comprehensive listing
American Verse Project - Electronic archive of American verse prior to 1920.

Articles, Essays and Reviews
19th Century American Women Writers Web/Online Journals
Literary Women of the Left Bank
Quarterly Black Review of Books
Women's Books Online - Reviews of women's books by women

Discussions
WWP-L - Women Writer's Project discussion list at Brown University
AMLIT-L - Academic discussions related to American literature.
Bookwoman - List for women devoted to ongoing discussion of writing by women.
AAWOMLIT -African-American Women Literature
WIG-L - Sponsored by WiG, an organization devoted to the feminist study of German literature, culture, and language.

Bibliographies
Hyperbibliography to American Poetry - University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative.
PSLV Library Bibliography of Reference Sources - Selected women writers resources available in the Penn State Lehigh Valley Library.

Women and Manners
A Father's Legacy to His Daughters by Dr. Gregory
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecroft
Emile, or On Education by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Conduct Manuals and Novels
The Female Tatler

Judy Lichtman
Reference Librarian
Penn State Lehigh Valley
jsandt@psu.edu
last updated October 5, 2004