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North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial Times to 1950
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- Description
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) provides full text access to the
personal
writings of American women from all classes and walks of life, from colonial times to 1950.
The
collection includes approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries, plus more than
7,000
pages of previously unpublished materials, drawn from 605 sources, including journal articles,
pamphlets,
newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings. Represented are all age groups and life stages,
all
ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. It also contains
biographical
information on authors when available. This resource provides unique insights into the personal
and
public lives of women for more than three centuries.
NAWLD provides keyword, full-text searching. It can also be searched and browsed in
fifty
fields, many of which are not normally available in the other bibliographic databases. For
example,
students can search a "life events" index for references to childbirth, marriage, or
first employment.
The search engine is very intuitive and allows even novice users to construct complex and
specific
searches.
The product also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in
the
database.
- Help
- Extensive online help is available.
- Dates covered
- Colonial Times to 1950.
- Updating frequency
- The collection is complete.
- Sources
- Includes published and unpublished letters and diaries, journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters,
monographs, and conference proceedings.
- Type of coverage
- Full text.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- None.
- Producer/content provider
- Alexander Street Press
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Alexander Street Press
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