LIBRARY AND EARLY WOMEN'S WRITING
FURTHER INFORMATION
Related links
Women's Writing
Corvey Women Writers on the Web
www2.shu.ac.uk/corvey/CW3/
Corvey Women Writers on the Web is a database containing material on 417 women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and 1,071 literary works published by them, based on the holdings of the Corvey Library.
Orlando: British women's writing in the British Isles from the beginnings to the present
http://orlando.cambridge.org/
The Orlando project, available by subscription, provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies.
British Women Writers Association
http://www.ipfw.edu/bwwa/
The Association promotes the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women's writing.
Brown University Women Writers Project
www.wwp.brown.edu
A research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding.
Perdita Project: early modern women's manuscript compilations
human.ntu.ac.uk/research/perdita/index.html
The Perdita Project has produced an online guide to over 500 manuscript compilations around the world.
Women Writers Networks
www.womenwriters.nl/
Information about the literary production of European women, and the ways in which contemporaries and literary critics of both sexes responded to these women's writings.
Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/wr-sites.html
A large collection of links to information on women writers.
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837
www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk
A small, informal, multi-disciplinary group formed to promote women's studies in the early modern period and the long eighteenth century.
'Long' Eighteenth Century Studies
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
www.bsecs.org.uk
The Society for promotes the study of all aspects of eighteenth-century cultural history.
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
http://asecs.press.jhu.edu
An interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period.
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
www.isecs.org
The Society promotes the growth, development and coordination of studies and research relating to the eighteenth century in all aspects of its cultural heritage.
Resources for Eighteenth-Century Research
www.soton.ac.uk/~sdb2/maresource.html
A guide to eighteenth-century research resources, published by Dr. Stephen Bending at the University of Southampton.
Eighteenth-Century Resources
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/
A guide to online resources on the long eighteenth century, produced by Prof. Jack Lynch of Rutgers University.
Book History & Bibliographic Studies
The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945
www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED
The Reading Experience Database (RED) was launched in 1996 at the UK Open University. Its mission is to accumulate as much data as possible about the reading experience of British subjects from 1450 to 1945.
Centre for Editorial & Intertextual Research
www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ceir/
Founded in 1997 by Prof. Peter Garside at Cardiff University's School of English, Communication and Philosophy, the aim of the Centre is to address various aspects of textual and bibliographic research in English literary studies.
British Fiction 1800-1829: a database of production, circulation & reception
www.british-fiction.cf.ac.uk
A project from the Centre for Editorial & Intertextual Research, this database allows users to examine bibliographical records of 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors, along with a large number of contemporary materials (including anecdotal records, circulating-library catalogues, newspaper advertisements, reviews, and subscription lists).
Cambridge Project for the Book Trust
www.cambridgebook.demon.co.uk
The Trust is committed to expand and develop both bibliographical scholarship and public interest in the history of the book.
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
www.sharpweb.org/
The Society was created in 1991 to provide a global network for book historians.
Individual Writers
Jane Austen Society of the United Kingdom
www.janeaustensociety.org.uk
The Society's aim is to foster the appreciation and study of the life, work, and times of Jane Austen and her family.
Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA)
www.jasna.org
The Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) is comprised of professional scholars and dedicated, well-read amateurs who have joined together on equal ground in their enthusiasm and admiration for the genius of Jane Austen.
Jane Austen Society of Australia
Jane Austen's House
www.janeaustenmuseum.org.uk
The house where Jane Austen spent the most productive and successful period of her writing career, now a museum about her life and work.
Republic of Pemberley
www.pemberley.com
Austen-related discussion groups and information.
Aphra Behn Society
http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/behn/
The Society is dedicated to encouraging and advancing research that focuses on issues of gender and/or women's role in the arts of early modern culture, circa 1660-1800.
The Burney Society
http://dc37.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/burney/
The Society commemorates and honours the life and work of Frances Burney.
Other Libraries
The Women's Library
www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary
Attached to the London Metropolitan University, the Women's Library houses the most extensive collection of women's history in the UK.
The British Library
COPAC
www.copac.ac.uk
A union catalogue providing free access to the merged online catalogues of 24 major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru.
