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Digital Library Collections By Subject: Women

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• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library Digital Library Collection).
• The Bluestocking Archive (Maintained by Elizabeth Fay, English Department University of Massachusetts, Boston). Site features a selected " archive of texts by or relating to the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle and the second generation Blues...." The start page screen illustrates the title page of the first issue of La Bella assemblée (1806), published on behalf of this group of British women writers.
• British Women Playwrights Around 1800 (Edited by Thomas C. Crochunis and Michael Eberle-Sinatra hosted by Stanford University). Full-text versions with supporting research materials of plays by British women authors.
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832: An Electronic Collection of Texts from the Shields Library, University of California, Davis. Searchable/browsable collection in HTML and SGML formats. Date updated: 2003-12-20.
• A Celebration of Women Writers (Edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania) includes original transcriptions and links to existing digital books in various formats on the Internet.
• Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet (Compiled by Ginny Daley, Special Collections, Duke University Library). Direct links to digital facsimiles or text-markup of primary archival records, photographs and prints by and about women of the United States Civil War.
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World (Hosted by the Stoa Consortium).
• Discovering American Women's History Online. Murfreesboro, TN: Middle Tennessee State University, 2008-. Summary: Developed and maintained by librarian Ken Middleton, " This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century." Date accessed: 2009-02-16. Date added: 2009-02-16.
• DoHistory. Harvard University. " A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard." Martha Ballard (1735-1812) was an American  midwife and the centerpiece of this site is a digital facsimile and transcription of the diary she kept for 27 years (1785-1812). Supporting documents in the form and archival records and publications are also available for study. Date accessed: 2002-09-17. Date added: 2002-09-17.
• The Dolly Madison Project: The Life, Letters and Legacy of Dolly Payne Madison (Virginia Center for Digital History). Digital facsimiles and transcriptions of letters by Dolly Madison, wife of U.S. President James Madison.
• Early Modern French Women Writers: A Women's Studies Digitization Project Initiative (Electronic Text Research Center, University of Minnesota). Free and restricted access to SGML-encoded works by female writers principally from the 15th to 17th centuries.
• Early Modern Women Database. College Park, MD: University of Maryland Libraries, 2000?-. Summary: " ...provides links to Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period from ca. 1500 to ca. 1800 and includes links to Web sites about the Medieval period and 19th Century as well. Resources have been selected for their scholarly value by librarians of the University of Maryland Libraries. Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources linked here are free. Some require a license for access." (Quoted from the About the Database page). Date accessed: 2006-01-23. Date added: 2006-01-23.
• Early Modern Women Writers (Montana State University). As of October 2001, contains Sweet Nosegay (1573) by Isabella Whitney and Female Poems on Several Occasions (1679) by Ephelia.
• Emma Crosby Letters. Vancouver, BC: Rare Books and Special Collections, University of BC Library, 2007?. Summary: " Emma Crosby (1849-1926) was the wife of Thomas Crosby, a prominent Methodist missionary on the north coast of British Columbia. UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections holds 87 letters written by Emma Crosby between 1874 and 1926. The majority of these letters were written from Fort Simpson B.C., to her family in Ontario between 1874 and 1892. Thanks to Drs. Jan Hare and Jean Barman for their transcriptions of the 1874-1892 letters.  . Date accessed: 2007-12-30. Date added: 2007-12-30.
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project (Directed by Professor Sheila Cavanagh, Emory University, Georgia). Full-text electronic editions of various works by women writers.
• Five College Archives Digital Access Project. Amherst, MA: Five Colleges, Inc. Summary: " This Web site provides access to digitized versions of archival records and manuscript collections relating primarily to women's history -- particularly women's education at the Five Colleges. Included among the collections are official college publications, letters, photographs, articles, oral histories, diaries, and more." The five colleges are Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
• George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers. West Lafayette, IN: Archives & Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries. Summary: Multimedia, partially digitized collection of archival records and artifacts that document " the personal life, aviation career, and business activities of pilot Amelia Earhart" (1897-1937). A finding aid/collection inventory is available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. The collection can also be searched or browsed through a database interface. Date accessed: 2005-08-27. Date added: 2005-08-27.
• Godey's Lady's Book (Written by Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont). Selections presented in SGML/HTML from 1852 and 1855 of this popular 19th century American periodical.
• Godey's Lady's Book Online (History Department, University of Rochester). Several issues from 1850 in HTML format of Godey's Lady's Book, a popular American periodical.
• Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH). Ithaca, NY: Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. Search or browse full-text books and journals on home economics (housekeeping) published in the United States before 1950. Date accessed: 2005-02-12. Date added: 2005-02-12.
• Jane Austen Information Page (Maintained by Henry Churchyard hosted by the Republic of Pemberley). Guide to Internet/Web resources, including full-text electronic editions of her works, about this Romantic era British author.
• The Letters of Dorothea Allison 1913-1922 (Edited by Duane Thomson and Carolyn Webb hosted by Living Landscapes: Thompson-Okanagan). Digital facsimiles and transcripts, along with supporting research material, by this resident of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia.
• Novels On-line (Chawton House Library, Chawton, Hants, United Kingdom). Unedited novels by women writers, representing part of the collection of books and manuscripts dating from 1600 to 1830, viewable or downloadable as HTML pages, Microsoft Word documents, or Adobe Portable Document Format files. The physical collection of books is temporarily housed in the United States while the house is undergoing restoration.
• Reception History of 19th Century Women Poets (Electronic Document Centre, Simon Fraser University Library). This site documents through digital facsimiles and other electronic formats the lives, works and public reception of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), and Christina Rossetti (1830-94). A database permits a variety of searches.
• The Suffragists Oral History Project (Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley). Transcripts encoded in SGML of audio interviews with over a half dozen women's rights advocates who worked in the United States.
• Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill Ottawa, ON: Library and Archives Canada Virtual Exhibit). Includes digital facsimiles and transcripts of selected letters between these two 19th-century writers. Date updated: 2004-04-21.
• The Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project (Katharine Bassett Patterson, Department of English, Simon Fraser University hosted by the Electronic Document Centre, Simon Fraser University Library). As of February 2001, two British women letter writers, Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) and Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), are represented through a searchable database and (in future) transcriptions.
• Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University). Large collection of SGML-encoded texts by British women writers. The texts often include illustrations from the original work and can be displayed in HTML, SGML or downloaded.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940 (Copyright by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar hosted by State University of New York, Binghamton). Collection of full-text published and archival documents in HTML format. A site-search engine is available, along with supporting research materials for integrating the site into the school curriculum.
• Women in America, 1820-1842 (Created by Mary Halnon hosted by University of Virginia). Extracts from published and archival sources in HTML format by various writers about the social conditions of women in the United States. This site is a subset of Democracy in America: Alexis DeTocqueville.
• Women Romantic-Era Writers. Created and maintained by Adriana Craciun, University of Nottingham. A guide to electronic texts of Romantic-era women writers and links to related resources. Date accessed: 2002-10-18. Date added: 2002-10-18.
• Women Working, 1870-1930. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 2002-. Part of: Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library. Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections that explore women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. The collection can be browsed or searched. Date accessed: 2005-02-12. Date added: 2005-02-12.
• Women Writers Electronic Texts (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library). Searchable/browsable collection of electronic versions of works by and about women, chiefly by Americans, dating from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Canada is represented by Lucy Maud Montgomery. British women writers include Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Gaskell, Beatrix Potter, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
• Women Writers of Early Canada (Electronic Text Centre, University of New Brunswick Libraries). Full-text SGML-encoded poetry and prose by several women authors.
• Women Writers of the Middle Ages (Bonnie Duncan, English Department, Millersville University). Guide to and about female writers of the medieval era with links to electronic texts in a variety of formats.
• Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930: A Women's Studies Digitization Project Initiative (Electronic Text Research Center, University of Minnesota). Free and restricted access to SGML-encoded whole books and excerpts documenting the life of female travelers.
• The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress. Washington, DC: American Memory, Library of Congress, 2004. Digital facsimiles  of 10 plays by Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), an African-American author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Date accessed: 2004-03-22. Date added: 2004-03-22.

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