ENGL 708D: Women, Rhetorical Theory, and Reading and Writing Practices in 17th Century Britain and 19th Century United States

Instructor: Dr. Jane Donawerth

Resources compiled and web page developed by Patricia Herron, UM Libraries

Contents

• Research Port: Off-Campus-Access to Library Resources
• Reference Sources
• Biographical Sources
• Library Catalog
• Databases
• Books
• Current Periodicals
• Historical Periodicals
• Online Collections of Womens' Writings
• Microform Collections of Womens' Writings
• Archival Collections
• Area Archival Collections
• Directories of Archival Collections
• Web Sites Related to Women's History
• Style Manuals
• Interlibrary Loan
• Questions?

Research Port: Off-Campus-Access to Library Resources

Research Port
This web-based interface allows for off-campus searching of
databases licensed for use by University of Maryland students and faculty.

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Reference Sources

American Women's History.
MCKREF STACKS HQ1115.W4 1994

A Bibliographical Guide to African-American Women Writers.

MCKREF STACKS PS153.N5J62 1993

Britannica Online

[Off-campus access]

Dictionary of American Temperance Biography.

MCKREF STACKS HV5292.8.L46 1984

Encyclopedia of Women's History in America.

MCKREF STACKS HQ1410.C85 2000

Famous American Women.

MCKREF STACKS HQ1412.F35 1983

Handbook of American Women's History.

MCKREF STACKS HQ1410.H36 2000

Historical Dictionary of Feminism.

MCKREF STACKS HQ1115.B65 1996

Index to Black American Literary Anthologies.

MCKREF STACKS PS153.N5K3

The Pen is Ours: A Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, With Secondary Bibliography to the Present.

MCKREF STACKS PS153.N5Y45 1991

Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History.

MCKREF STACKS HQ1410.F76 1998

Women and the Literature of the Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography Based on Wing's Short-title Catalogue

MCKREF STACKS PR113.S64 1990

Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925.

MCKREF STACKS HQ1412.W67 1993

Women's Progress in America.

MCKREF STACKS HQ1410.F76

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Biographical Sources

Library Catalog
To locate full biographies on your author use the NAME/WORD search option:
EX: //Naphra behn/biography. Also do a KEYWORD search on your author's
name.

African American Biographical Database

[Off-campus access]
Biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in
any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been
carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

[Off-campus access]
Indexes hundreds of biographical references sources.

Biography Index

[Off-campus access]
Information on articles and books that contain biographical material on
individuals. Includes all nationalities from antiquity to the present.

Literature Resource Center

[Off-campus access]
Full text biographies and criticism on literary authors.

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Library Catalog

To locate books and NONPRINT materials held in the UM libraries search the Libraries online Catalog. The following is an example of a search strategy making use of some of the important keywords below: women AND (17th century or renaissance) AND (speech* or orator* or politic* or rhetoric*).



abolitionists oratory orators politics political speeches addresses rhetoric rhetorical persuasion language intellectuals social reformers

afro-american(s) african american(s) women feminist(s)

17th century 19th century renaissance

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Databases

Books

WorldCat

[Off-campus access]
Combined catalog of books and other materials, including archival and
manuscriptcollections, in major research libraries. Books not owned
by University System ofMaryland libraries can be ordered through
interlibrary loan.

RLG Bibliographic File

[0ff-campus access]
Combined catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
Books not owned by University System of Maryland libraries can be
ordered through interlibrary loan.

Current Periodicals

Academic Search

[0ff-campus access]
Information on articles and book reviews from humanities, social science,
science, as well as popular periodicals. Includes some full text

America: History & Life

[Off-campus access]
Information on articles, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian
history published since 1964.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature - Full Text (ABELL-FT)

[Off-campus access]
Use this database to identify scholarly journal articles and essays on
literary topics.

Arts & Humanities Search

[Off-campus access]
Information about articles from 1300 arts and humanities periodicals. Includes
links to full text of selected journal articles.

ComAbstracts

[0ff-campus access]
Citations and abstracts for articles in communications journals.

GenderWatch

[Off-campus access]
Full text database comprised primarily of the many ongoing
periodicals that deal with gender issues, including academic and
scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers,
newsletters, booklets and reports..

Historical Abstracts

[Off-campus access]
Information on articles, books, and dissertations about non-U.S. and
Canadian history.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center via EBSCOHost)

[Off-campus access]
Information about journal articles and non-journal materials on all aspects
of education. For journal articles, check the title of the journal in the
Catalog to see if the Libraries own it. ERIC Documents are available
in the ERIC microform collection in the McKeldin Periodicals-Microforms
Room and, from 1993 to the present, online from E*Subscribe
[Off-campus access]

Humanities Abstracts

[Off-campus access]
Information about articles from 400 arts and humanities periodicals.
Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.

MLA International Bibliography

[Off-campus access]
Information about articles and other publications on literature and related
subjects. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.

Women's Resources International

[Off-campus access]
Compiled from ten women's studies databases, primarily an index of the
feminist press from 1972 to the present.

Historical Periodicals

African American Newspapers
[0ff-campus access]
Includes the full-text of the following 19th century African-American
newspapers:Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), Coloured American (1837-
1841 ), North Star (1847-1851), The National Era (1847-1860),
Provincial Freeman (1854-1857), Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1859)
The Christian Recorder (1861-1902).

American Periodical Series

[0ff-campus access]
Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and
journals published between 1741 and 1900. More than 1,000 titles
include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American
professional journals, and several popular magazines still in publication,
such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal.

The Making of America

"A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction. A Portion of the web site
includes the full-text of 22 19th century American periodicals
digitized from Cornell University's collection.

The Making of America

"A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction." Part of the web site
includes the full-text of 11 19th century American periodicals
digitized from the University of Michigan's collection.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile

Citations to newspapers and periodicals articles, books, and government
documents from the 19th century.

Periodicals Contents Index Full Text

[Off-campus access]
Information about articles published in more than 2,000 humanities and
social sciences periodicals, from as early as the eighteenth century to
the early 1990s.

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Online Collections of Women's Writings

19th Century American Women Writers Web (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Full text of works by 19th-century American women writers.

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library)

Full text of 19th-century fiction, essays, poetry, biography and
autobiography by African-American women writers.

Digital Scriptorium Projects: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library,

(Duke University)
Among the projects featured is: African-American Women On-line Archival
Collections.

Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Includes the following online collections: North American Slave Narratives
and The Church in the Southern Black Community, Beginnings to 1920

Early English Books Online EEBO)

[Off-campus access]
(EEBO contains most of the over 125,000 titles listed in
Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640),
Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and theThomason Tracts
(1640-1661). This collections is also available on microfilm: Early
English Books 1475-1640 M-Film PR1101.E5 and Early English Books
1640-1700 M-Film PR1101.E51.

Emory Women Writers Resource Project

Collection of poetry, prose and drama by women (from Britain and the
United States) writing in English from the 17th through the 19th centuries.


LION: Literature Online

[Off-campus access]
LION features an ever-growing collection of over 290,000 works of
poetry, drama and prose including English poetry from 600 to the present,
English fiction from the 16th to the 19th century, English drama from
1280 to 1915, American and African-American poetry from 1603
to the present, American drama from 1762 to 1830, and Early
American fiction from before 1850.

Primary Sources in U.S. History Universe

[Off-campus access]
Collection of prmary source material relating to American History
including autobiographies, contemporary accounts, government
publications, manuscripts, and speeches.

The Making of America

"A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly
strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history,
sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides
access to 267 books and over 100,000 journal articles from the
19th century."

Renaissance Women Online

[Off-campus access] A subset of the Women Writers Online database
(see below).

Women Writers Online

[Off-campus access]
A growing database of electronic texts by pre-Victorian women writer.

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Microform Collections of Womens' Writings

Anti-Slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library.

Child, Lydia Maria Francis. The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, 1817-1880.

History of Women. MCKPER MFILM HQ1121.H5 (1248 reels)
ELECTRONIC CATALOG TO THE COLLECTION: The Library Catalog and Worldcat can be used to identify items in this collection.
ELECTRONIC GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION: An Online Guide to the microfilm set has beem produced by the publisher, Primary Source Microfilm.
PRINT GUIDE:History of Women: guide to the Microfilm Collection (MCKREF HQ1121.H53).
SCOPE: This collection of printed books, pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts and photographs is a selection of holdings from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College; the Sophia Smith Collection (Women's History Archive) at Smith College; the Jane Addams Memorial Collection of the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Campus; the Galatea Collection of the Boston Public Library; the Miriam Y. Holden Collection, the Ida Rust Macpherson Collection at Scripps College; and materials from the New York Public Library, Widener Library at Harvard University, and the Yale University Libraries. The collection includes approximately 12,000 printed volumes, over 2,000 pamphlets, 1,000 photographs, approximately 117 periodicals, and 100,000 pages of manuscript material.

Hooker, Isabella Beecher. Isabella Beecher Hooker Project.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Papers 1815-1902.

Women Advising Women: Part 1: Early Women's Journals, c1700-1832, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Part 2: Advice books, Manuals, Almanacs, and Journals, c1625-1837 from the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Part 3: Lady's Magazine, 1770-1800; Part 4: Lady's Magazine, 1801-1832; Part 5: Women's Writing and Advice, 1450-1710. Marlborough, Wiltshire, England: Adam Mathew Publications, 1992 - 1997.
LOCATION: MCKPER MFILM
CALL NUMBER: PN5124.W6W65 (Part 1, 17 reels; Part 2, 20 reels; Part 3, 15 reels; Part 4, 17 reels; Part 5, 22 reels)
ELECTRONIC GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION: An Online Guide to part 5 of the microfilm set has beem produced by the publisher, Adam Matthew Publication.
PRINT GUIDE: Women Advising Women: A Listing and Guide to the Microform Collection (MCKREF PN5124.W6W66 guide Part 1, guide Parts 2 and 3-4, and guide Part 5).
SCOPE: This is a collection of English women's periodicals, essays, practical manuals, broadsides, ballads, and other materials published from the late 16th century to the start of the Victorian era, with particular emphasis on women's periodicals of the 18th century. The aim of the project is to provide source materials for the study of the social history of women, particularly in the 18th century, which is not so well-documented as the 19th century. Included are prescriptive literature giving the qualities of an ideal woman; practical manuals; advice literature; literary journals; tattlers, giving society news and gossip; fashion journals; general instructional journals; and political literature.

For a full list see the Microforms Collections page.

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Archival Collections

Area Archival Collections

Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
"The Moorland-Sprinarn Research Collection is recognized as one of the
world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation
of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa,
the Americas, and other parts of the world. As one of Howard University's
major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes
available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black
experience." The Howard University Library online catalog is searchable.

Library of Congress Manuscripts Division.

The Library of Congress Manuscripts Division has created numerous
bibliographies, guides and finding aids to their archival materials. These are
accessible from the Catalogs, Finding Aids, and Guides page,
which also provides a link to the Library of Congress catalog.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

The collections of NARA are searchable through
NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL)

University of Maryland Libraries Maryland Room

The Maryland Room at the University of Maryland Libraries is the
service point for Marylandia and Rare Books, National Trust for Historic
Manuscripts Department: Historical Manuscripts, Literary Manuscripts,
and University Archives. The Black History Resources and
Women's Studies guides provide a selected lists of materials available in the
Archives and Manuscripts Department

Directories of Archival Collections

Archival Sites for Women's Studies
Directory of archival repositories with significant women's studies
collections. Covers archives in the United States and overseas and
provides links to the repositories.

Archives USA
[Off-campus access]
Information about manuscript and archival collections in U.S. repositories;
also information about the repositories, with links to repository websites.

A Geographic Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections
Web guide to archives, libraries, and other repositories that have
primary source materials by or about women.

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Web Sites Related to Women's History

African American Writers: Online E-texts
Links to electronic texts of African-American writers.

American Authors on the Web
Major website devoted to American literature. Links to author websites,
texts and projects.

American Women's History: A Research Guide
Citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected
large digital collections of primary sources.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Biographies of distinguished women. International in scope.

Celebration of Women Writers
Texts, biographical information, and bibliographies on women writers.

Early Modern Literary Studies: Electronic Texts

Links to 15th, 16th, and 17th century texts available online.

Early Modern Women Database

This database provides annotated links to scholarly World Wide Web
resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the
Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800.

Gift of Speeches: Women's Speeches from around the World.
Texts of speeches of influential women from around the world. Includes
speeches from some 19th century women

Links to Websites on Women in the 19th Century
Links to Internet sites on all facets of the lives of 19th century women

National Women's History Project
Provides educational materials and programs related to significant historical
accomplishments of women.

Votes for Women: Selections from the North American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Collection of books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the
suffrage campaign which are held by the Rare Book and Special
Collections Division of the Library of Congress.

The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
Major website devoted to the Humanities. Subdivided by discipline. Links to
author websites, texts and projects, teaching resources, electronic
journals, listservs and information on scholarly conferences and other
related material.

Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color
"Web site focusing on the lives and works of North American women
writers of color."

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1830-1930
A collection of primary documents related to women and social movements
in the United States between 1820 and 1940. Includes collections such as:
Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1878-1917,
Southern Women and Antilynching, 1890-1942, and
African-American Women and the Chicago World's Fair, 1893

Women in America 1820-1842
Accounts of Irish, German, Scotch, English, and French travelers
on various aspects of the life of American Women from 1820-1842.

Women in American History
Biographies and primary source material of important women from American
history.

U.S. Women's History Workshop
"A collaborative effort of Massachusetts teachers (middle school through
college)which seeks to make available primary sources in pedagogically
imaginative formats for teachers who wish to use such materials in their
own classrooms."

Worcester Women's History Project
Primary source material and links to websites related to the first National
Woman's Rights Convention held in Worcester, Massachussetts.

WWW-VL: History: United States: Women's History
Links to Web sites related to American women's history.



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Style Manuals

Columbia Guide to Online Style

A Guide for Writing Research papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA)
Documentation

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Interlibrary Loan

Request materials the UM Libraries do not own through the Interlibrary Loan Office.

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Questions

If you have any questions about these or other library resources, contact
Patricia Herron or Susanna Van Sant.

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