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Women Writers Online |
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Off-campus users will be asked to log in for access to the Horrmann Library's subscription databases. |
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Women Writers Online provides access to more than two hundred and fifty texts of pre-Victorian women's writing in English from 1450-1850. Women Writers Online challenges the misconceptions about early women's writing-that women wrote only private texts, wrote only in the genres of lyric poetry and fiction, and did not engage in political debate. In addition to verse, fiction, and drama, the textbase includes philosophy, religion, medical texts, letters, history, autobiography and biography, domestic manuals, education, natural history, and politics. It covers a broad range of genres, social classes, and religious or political stances, while maintaining a balance between the now "canonical" women writers such as Anne Askew and Katherine Philips, and less well-known authors such as Elizabeth Lilburne and Susanna Parr.
Women Writers Online is published by the Brown University Women Writers Project, a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing, electronic text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship. |
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| Dates covered |
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1400-1850. |
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Fairly static collection. About 20 texts are added every other year. |
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Original rare sources from a variety of rare book libraries. |
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Full text. |
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