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.

• American Women's Dime Novel Project from Felicia Carr (dimenovel @ hotmail.com) at George Mason University
• Autorinnen German-Language Women Writers
• The Bluestocking Archive by Elizabeth Fay (elizabeth.fay@umb.edu) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Blouse Roumaine: Romanian Women Writers by Constantin Roman
• The Women Writers Project (formerly The Brown University Women Writers Project, Subscription only) Julia Flanders, Director (j.flanders@northeastern.edu) at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Chawton House Library and Early Women's Writing Darren Bevin, Librarian (Darren.Bevin@chawtonhouselibrary.org )
• Collective Biographies of Women from Alison Booth (ab6j@virginia.edu)
• The Corvey Project at the University of Nebraska
• Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (at nypl.org)
• Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture from Special Collections Library, Duke University
• Domestic or Sentimental Fiction, 1820-1860 from Donna M. Campbell
• Electronic Literature: Women Writers Curriculum
• Epistolæ: Medieval Women's Letters translated by Professor Joan Ferrante of Columbia University
• FemBio Biographical Database from Luise F. Pusch (lfp@fembio.org)
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index from Margaret Schaus (mschaus@haverford.edu) at The University of Iowa Libraries
• 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 Lady's Book
  • 1855-1859: courtesy of Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont.
  • Selected fashion plates from 1863 to 1883.
  • Complete Run (Accessible Archives, Subscription only)
• Honno Welsh Women's Press
• The International Centre for Women Playwrights
• International Electronic Literature by Women Authors 1986-2021
• International Margaret Cavendish Society Online resources
• The International Women's Writing Guild
• Iranian Women Poets from Katy and Mahmud Kianush (katy@artarena.force9.co.uk)
• 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
• National Women and Media Collection at the University of Missouri
• Native American Women Playwrights Archive
• The Orange Prize for Contemporary Women's Writing in English
• 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)
• The Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700
• Portraits of American Women
• Scribbling Women, George Sutherland Archives, Utah Valley University
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers
• The Victorian Women Writers Project diglib@indiana.edu at Indiana University
• 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)
• Women Electronic Literature Writers Project on Wikipedia
• 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)
• At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction
• Bohemian Ink
• 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
• 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)
• Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
• Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren
• Documenting the American South
• The Eclectics
• English and American Literature Collection at Indiana University, Bloomington
• 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)
• Indigenous Peoples Literature by Glenn Welker (nativelit@earthlink.net)
• Italian American Press, from Ralph Ferraro
• January Magazine from Linda Richards (scribe@smartypants.net)
• The Literary Traveller On-line articles and real-world tours.
• The Luminarium [1350-1660] by Anniina Jokinen (anniina@alchemyweb.com)
• Manitoba Writer's Guild
• MATEO -- Frauen des Humanismus
• The Mississippi Writers Page
• Modern American Poetry
• Mystery Readers Journal
• Native American Authors from the Internet Public Library
• Poets on the Line [on-going Anthology] by Andrew Gettler & Linda Lerner (llerner@mindspring.com)
• 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
• The S.F. Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (editor@sfsite.com)
• 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)
• The Victorian Web by George Landau (George_Landow@brown.edu) at Brown University
• Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature from Alan Liu
• https://canadianwritersfoundation.org/links-to-organizations-of-interest/
• Writing Speculative Fiction by Mary Soon Lee [how to deal with the SF/Fantasy/Speculative Fiction market]

Women in History and Culture

• Jewish Women's Archive
• 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)
• National Women's History Alliance [United States of America]
• Sally Bingham Centre for Women's History and Culture
• Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History from Smith College
• Swarthmore College Peace Collection [about 50% by women] (wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu)
• The Valley of the Shadow [American Civil War site; includes letters and diaries by women]
• 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 Database (Sacred music)
• Music by Women
• Women composers by time period, Oxford Music Online
• Women in Red Project on Wikipedia

More Women in Science

• 4000 Years of Women in Science (crock@kudzu.astr.ua.edu)
• Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics: A Project of the American Physical Society
• Girl Up: STEM for Social Good
• IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine from IEEE Women in Engineering
• National Girls Collaborative Project
• Online Resources from Stem Like A Girl.
• Resources for Women in Computer Technology from Purdue University Global.
• Scholarships for Women in STEM
• The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology from The White House of President Barack Obama
• Women in Science from UNESCO
• Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM): Quick Take Aug 04, 2020 from Catalyst.
• Women Nobel Prize Laureates from The Nobel Prize Internet Archive