The Nineteenth Century: Women Writers: Specialist Collection.

Location: McKeldin Library
Location Code & Call Number: MCK-PER M-FICHE PR1143.W65 1988

McKeldin Library owns only the earlier reels of this microfiche set. Titles filmed on later reels may be borrowed from Johns Hopkins University Library through Interlibrary Loan.

Description

This collection is part of a series which reproduces a broad range of nineteenth century British books. Titles have been obtained primarily from the holdings of the British Library.

Titles in this series are arranged in numerical order, according to a three part numbering scheme. The first number indicates which of the subsidiary Nineteenth Century series a title belongs to. For Women Writers titles this number is always a 5. The next number follows a decimal point and is a numerical designation for the originating library. The last number is a number unique to the individual title. Thus, for example, Maria Benson's novel The Carriage is given the numerical designation, 5.1.815.

The Nineteenth Century: Women Writers: Specialist Collection is one series of a multipart microfilming project which is expected to take thirty years to complete. In addition to Women Writers, McKeldin also has obtained the initial releases of another Nineteenth Century series, the General Collection and the Art Library has obtained the initial releases of a specialist collection called The Visual Arts and Architecture. Titles included in The Nineteenth Century project are selected primarily, but not exclusively, from the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog.

It is not the intention of The Nineteenth Century's editors to reproduce every single title published in Britain and its colonies during the 19th century. Rather, their goal is to make available a comprehensive selection of British works published during that period. The result, it is hoped, will be a collection which will illustrate the institutional, intellectual and social evolution of Britain in the years between 1800 and 1900.

For the most part, Women Writers is a collection of works of fiction, including novels, poems, short stories, songs and plays. Many of the works included are not otherwise widely available, though this is not true in all cases.

As initial batches of microfiches are released they are accompanied by a contents list which is in order by author's name. Periodically these lists are consolidated into a cumulative index.

The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog can be used to broaden the number of access points to this collection but using it for this purpose is a cumbersome process. The procedure for doing so is more fully explained in the section of this notebook which explains The Nineteenth Century: General Collection.

Finally, it should be noted MARC records for each title in this collection have been loaded into OCLC. At the top of each Nineteenth Century OCLC record, you will get a "NO HOLDINGS IN UMC" notification, but if the bottom of the record says The Nineteenth Century: Women Writers Collection, we may have a fiche copy of the book.

Index/Guide

MCK REF PR1143.W651 1988

The Nineteenth Century: Women Writers: Specialist Collection: Guide to Contents.

MCK FOLIO Z2001.N65 & .N66

The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog. (in progress)

Online Catalog to Nineteenth Century Women Writers

REF AUTOM D351.N57

The Nineteenth Century: General Collection: Society and Culture in theNinettenth Century, is a CDRom index to all items published so far in the six collections that comprise The Nineteenth Century microfiche.

The Worldcat, a FirstSearch file available through the Libraries' homepage, contains the records of Nineteenth Century: Women Writers titles. To limit a search to these titles, type Nineteenth Century Women Writers in the search space and click on Notes (Comments) in the Index box; and limit to microform.