African-American Poetry[Full Record] Full text searchable database of poetry by African-Americans
of the 18th and 19th centuries Subscription only - contact your library.
American Drama[Full Record] Full text searchable database of American drama from the
colonial period to the present. Subscription only - contact your library.
American Folk Art Museum[Full Record] Information about works in the permanent collection
including 18th and 19th century paintings, drawings,
textiles, and sculpture.
American Poetry[Full Record] Full text searchable database of American poetry from the
colonial period to the early 20th century. Subscription only - contact your library.
American Verse Project[Full Record] Electronic archive of American poetry. Primarily 19th
century poetry, but includes some 18th century and early
20th century texts as well.
Archive of Early American Images[Full Record] Digitized images relating to the Americas which appeared in
books printed in Europe before 1825, many reproduced here
for the first time. From the collections of the John Carter
Brown Library, Brown University.
ARTFL Project[Full Record] A corpus of texts ranging from classic works of French
literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose
and technical writing. Genres include novels, verse,
theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises.
Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history,
economics, and philosophy. Subscription only - contact your library.
ARTstor[Full Record] Searchable database of digital images from most periods,
cultures, and media. Subscription only - contact your library.
As One Phoenix[Full Record] Collection of selected poems by four 17th century poets,
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle; Aemilia Lanyer;
Katherine Philips; and Lady Mary Wroth. Also includes
biographical information and bibliographies of editions and
critical studies of these authors.
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Inc.[Full Record] Web site devoted to Spain’s Golden Age drama. Texts of
plays by major playwrights of the period, including Ana Caro
de Mallén, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and María de Zayas y
Sotomayor.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes[Full Record] Digital library of Spanish and Latin American texts from the 16th
century to the present. Includes links to other online resources
such as bibliographies, criticism, electronic journals, and other
digital projects.
Bluestocking Archive[Full Record] Texts by or about the eighteenth-century British
Bluestocking Circle and the second generation
Blues, including predecessor texts, and literature of
sensibility derived from the Bluestockings'
concerns aesthetics with women's aesthetic achievements.
Bologna Science Classics Online[Full Record] Series of full-text online books with an international
reputation and related to scientific knowledge linked to
the University of Bologna.
British Academy John Foxe Project[Full Record] Information about project to publish Foxe's Acts and
Monuments ("Book of Martyrs") on cd-rom, with
presentation of portion of the text as demonstration.
British Fiction 1800-1829 : A Database of Production, Circulation, & Reception.[Full Record] A bibliographic database of works of fiction published in
the British Isles between 1800 and 1829. Includes some
contemporary material about the publications such as
subscription lists, reviews, newspaper announcements and
advertisements, and entries in circulating library
catalogues.
Camelot Project[Full Record] Database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic
information. Includes a section on "Women of the Arthurian
Legend".
Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925[Full Record] The text with images of some 141 books about the Chesapeake
region, including Mary Clemmer Ames's Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a
woman sees them (1873)
Ames, John Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia (1624), Robert Beverley’s History of Virginia
(1722), and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia.
Chawton House Library: Novels-on-line[Full Record] An ongoing project offering full-text transcripts of women's
novels published in the period 1600 to 1830. The project
will include critical introductions to the novels along with
biographies and secondary bibliographies on the authors.
CHILDE: Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe[Full Record] 1,000 digitised images from collections of early children's
books published prior to 1891. Includes a bibliography of
secondary sources on the history of children's literature
and information on best practices for the physical
preservation, cataloguing, and promotion of historical
children’s books.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library[Full Record] Classic Christian books in electronic format, including
Reformation texts, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux
(Poems), and Hannah Whitall Smith.
Cotsen Children's Library[Full Record] A major historical collection of rare illustrated children's
books, manuscripts, original artwork, prints, and
educational toys from the 15th century to the present day in
over thirty languages.
Defining her Life: Advice Books for Women[Full Record] Online exhibit of advice books for women. Includes sections
on: conduct and courtesy; cooking and gardening; etiquette;
health and recreation; household management; and working
women. Includes an essay and bibliography.
Documenting the American South[Full Record] A collection of primary source material on Southern history,
literature and culture from the colonial period through the
first decades of the 20th century.
Early American Fiction 1789-1875[Full Record] When complete, this full text searchable database will
include over 750 works of fiction by more than 130 American
authors. Subscription only - contact your library.
Early American Imprints[Full Record] Digital collection, based on Charles Evans' American
Bibliography, containig full text of books, pamphlets, and
broadsides printed in Colonial America and the United States
from 1639 through 1800.
Subscription only - contact your library.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)[Full Record] Full text of books, broadsides, pamphlets, prayer books,
proclamations, music, almanacs, etc., printed between 1475
and 1700. Search citations and view full page images. Subscription only - contact your library.
Early English Prose Fiction[Full Record] A full text searchable database of works in English prose by
writers from the British Isles from 1500 through 1700. Subscription only - contact your library.
Early Modern Women's Poetry / Ellen Moody, ed.[Full Record] Scholarly essays and bibliographies on the following authors
Veronica Gambara, Vittoria Colonna, Anne Kingsmill Finch,
Countess of Winchilsea, Anne Cecil de Vere, Countess of
Oxford, Katherine Fowler Philips and Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu.
Early Virginia Religious Petitions[Full Record] Petitions regarding religious matters (relationship between church and state, rights
of dissenters, etc.) presented to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)[Full Record] A digital archive, which when completed will
comprise most works published in the United Kingdom and the
Americas between 1701 and 1800. Subscription only - contact your library.
Eighteenth Century Fiction[Full Record] Full text searchable database of works in English prose by
writers from the British Isles from the period 1700 to 1780.
Subscription only - contact your library.
Electronic Text Center -- Subject: Women Writers[Full Record] Part of the University of Virginia's Modern English
Collection (AD 1500 � present). Contains full text of
women�s works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, and
other materials.
Emory Women Writers Resource Project[Full Record] Collection of poetry, prose and drama by women writing in
English from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Includes
edited as well as unedited texts.
English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800[Full Record] Searchable, online archive of ballads from the Samuel
Pepys collection held by Cambridge University. Includes
facsimile images of the ballads along with transcriptions
and backgropund essays.
English Drama[Full Record] Full text searchable database of plays by authors from the
late 13th century to the early 20th century. Subscription only - contact your library.
English Emblem Book Project[Full Record] Images of scanned pages of emblem books printed in Early
Modern England. Includes a chronology, bibliography, and
links to other emblem book Web sites.
English Poetry, Second Edition[Full Record] Full text searchable database of English language poems
from the 8th century to the early 20th century.
Subscription only - contact your library.
Epistolae: Medieval Women's Latin Letters[Full Record] Epistolae is a collection of letters to and from women in
the Middle Ages, from the 4th to the 13th century. The
letters, written in Latin, appear under the names of the
women involved, with English translations and, where
possible, biographical sketches of the women and some
description of the subject matter or the historic context of
the letter.
First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820[Full Record] This collection of "original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century" is drawn from the collections of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. It includes a number of documents by and about women.
Galileo Project[Full Record] Contains information about the life and work of Galileo
Galilei (1564-1642), as well as the science and religion of
the period. This site also features the letters and essays
of Galileo's daughter, Maria Celeste.
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799[Full Record] Collection of searchable text and page images including correspondence, letter books, commonplace
books, journals, and diaries documenting eighteenth-century American life, includes correspondence with Martha
Washington among other women.
German Emblem Books[Full Record] Searchable digital images of 12 seventeenth and eighteenth-
century German emblem books; includes images of
women.
gwefan Ann Griffiths website[Full Record] Welsh and English Web site devoted to the author, including
digital versions of her early hymns and letters, as well as
critical and biographical studies of the author's life and
works.
Hockliffe Project[Full Record] When complete, this project will include digitized images
of the entire Hockliffe Collection of children's books
owned by the De Montfort University. The books in the
collection, which number over 1,000, range in date from
1685 to the mid-twentieth century, with the majority
printed between 1760 and 1840.
Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipies, & Helpful Hints[Full Record] Exhibit exploring the cabinet contents of the 16th,
17th, and 18th century housewife, including her medicines,
perfumes, cosmetics, cleaning solutions, pest controls, and
preserving hints, as recorded in books and
manuscripts.
Instruction of a Christen Woman[Full Record] A Google books electronic edition of Richard Hynde's 1529
English
translation of De Institutione Foeminae Christianae, written
by the Spanish humanist, Juan Luis Vives and
published in 1524, "has been recognized as the most
important voice in sixteenth-century Europe in defining the
roles and educational principles pertaining to women."
Issuing Her Own: The Female Tatler[Full Record] An historical and literary analysis of the Female Tatler, a
women's periodical published in London between 1709 and
1710. Includes information on the magazine's publication
history, readership, and major themes.
Lady Mary Wroth / Nandini Das, ed.[Full Record] Web site devoted to the author. Includes biographical
information, bibliography of primary and secondary works,
links to author�s works, and other related material.
Leeds Verse Database (BCMSV)[Full Record] Information about individual items of English poetry
contained in the 17th and 18th-century manuscripts from the
Brotherton Collection at the Leeds University Library. The
searchable database indexes over 6600 poems from more than
160 manuscripts.
LION: Literature Online[Full Record] Full text searchable database of selected British and
American poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th century to
the present. Subscription only - contact your library.
Literature for Children[Full Record] A collection of digitized children's books published,
predominantly in the United States and Great Britain, from
the 17th through the 20th centuries.
London Provisioner's Day Book, 1550-1563[Full Record] Online demonstration of planned electronic edition of the
diary of Henry Machyn, a rich source for the
history of mid-16th century London (and England generally).
Manuscript Miscellany[Full Record] A collaborative production of the college
teacher-participants in a 2005 NEH summer humanities
institute. “The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England“
sought to compare the states of scholarship and consolidate
research on the role of manuscripts in a variety of
discourses for a variety of audiences in a period extending
from the late middle ages into the eighteenth century.
Mapping Margery Kempe: A Guide to Late Medieval Material and Spiritual Life[Full Record] Resources on the cultural and social context of The Book of
Margery Kempe. Includes the text of the work as well as
primary source material such as images, maps, and documents
which relate to the author�s 15th century world and the
world of the parish. Also includes a bibliography and guides
for teaching.
Maryland State Archives[Full Record] Complete texts of early Maryland records, including
seventeenth and eighteenth-century court and legislative
records.
Nineteenth Century Fiction[Full Record] Full text searchable database of British and Irish novels
from the period 1782 to 1903. Subscription only - contact your library.
Oxford Text Archive[Full Record] Provides high-quality scholarly electronic texts and
linguistic corpora (and any related resources) of long-term
interest and use across the range of humanities disciplines
including history and law.
Pocahontas Archive[Full Record] Collection of materials relating to the study of Pocahontas
(and, by association, John Smith, Jamestown, and early
Virginia) from early America into 2007. Includes histories,
biographies, poems, plays, fiction, textbooks, movies,
essays, dissertations, newspaper articles, children\'s books,
paintings, sculpture, recordings, genealogies. Also
includes an image gallery with over 150 images of Pocahontas.
Poetess Archive[Full Record] Bibliography of works by and about writers working in and
against the "poetess tradition," the extraordinarily
popular, but much criticized, flowery poetry written in
Britain and America between 1750 and 1900. There is also a
growing collection of full-text images.
Proyecto Ensayo Hispanico / José Luis Gómez-Martínez[Full Record] Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico is a collaborative effort to
disseminate Hispanic thought and essay. José Luis
Gómez-Martínez started the project in 1997. Scholars of
Hispanic culture have participate in the preparation of the
material of these pages, text selections are incorporated
into the Anthology of Hispanic Essay. This web site,
devoted to the teaching of the Hispanic Essay, is
constructed in its entirety in Spanish.