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Women Writers Online
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- Description
- Women Writers Online provides access to more than two hundred and fifty texts of
pre-Victorian
women's writing in English from 1450-1850. Women Writers Online challenges the misconceptions
about
early women's writing-that women wrote only private texts, wrote only in the genres of lyric
poetry
and fiction, and did not engage in political debate. In addition to verse, fiction, and drama,
the
textbase includes philosophy, religion, medical texts, letters, history, autobiography
and
biography, domestic manuals, education, natural history, and politics. It covers a broad range
of
genres, social classes, and religious or political stances, while maintaining a balance between
the
now "canonical" women writers such as Anne Askew and Katherine Philips, and less
well-known authors
such as Elizabeth Lilburne and Susanna Parr.
Women Writers Online is published by the Brown University Women Writers Project, a
long-term
research project devoted to early modern women's writing, electronic text encoding, and the role
of
electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.
- Help
- Women Writers Online has an Information and Help button on its home
page. The main help page contains information on Getting Technical Support, Citing this Resource,
Help for Women Writers Online, and other information. Once you are in the text base,
there is
another help button that provides more in-depth assistance with searching.
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- Dates covered
- 1400-1850.
- Updating frequency
- Fairly static collection. About 20 texts are added every other year.
- Sources
- Original rare sources from a variety of rare book libraries.
- Type of coverage
- Full text.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Original rare sources from a variety of rare book libraries.
- Producer/content provider
- Brown University Women Writers Project
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Brown University Women Writers Project
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