Women authors and literature
This guide lists databases that provide information on women authors and literature about women. Contents will include literary criticisms, biographies, bibliographies, and full-text books, poems, short stories, and other works.
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Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500-1640 from Iter
Bibliography of English Women Writers, 1500-1640 from Iter
Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500-1640 provides a browsable and searchable bibliography that includes catalogs, contextual studies (i.e., studies providing extended narrative or analysis), reference works (i.e., compendia of entries), anthologies of essays, special issues of journals, genre studies, handbooks and pedagogical tools, compilations containing primary sources, and dissertations. No full text documents are provided, nor links to sources for these documents. 1500-present.
French Women Writers from ARTFL
French Women Writers from ARTFL
The ARTFL French Women Writers Project is a searchable database containing full-text works in HTML by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century. The Women Writers Project currently contains texts by 40 authors.
Literature encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Literature encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across 18 subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 42,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
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