Literature & Writing
Anniina's Alice Walker Page
Includes short biography, many academic essays and articles, criticisms, and reviews. Links to in-depth Alice Walker biographies, two interviews with the author, and bibliographies. Site also features poems, short stories, and excerpts. Very useful site.
A Celebration of Women Writers
Provides biographical and bibliographical information on many women authors, also includes complete electronic text of books. Can browse by author, century, country, and/or ethnicity. Also has links for writers and other literature oriented sites that may be useful.
Gender--Introductory & General Writing (The Men's Bibliography, 2003)
Assorted bibliography about feminism and women's issues.
Lesbian Pulps Bibliography
"Bibliography of texts about lesbian pulp novels of the 50s and 60's." Compiled by Laure Neuville (May 1996).
The Lewis H. Beck Center For Electronic Collections & Services: Women Writers Resource Project
“The Emory Women Writers Resource Project is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. The Project is a pedagogical tool, designed to offer graduate and undergraduate students in various disciplines the opportunity to edit their own texts.” The list of texts consists of 75 (currently) works reproduced in full, in html-text-file.
Post-colonial and Post-Imperial Literature: An Overview
Site organized around countries and regions that were formerly British colonies, including Africa, Australia, India, and Singapore. Features much information such as authors, there works, and biographies, economics, geography, history, politics, science and technology, visual arts, religion, post-colonial theory, bibliographies, gender matters, literature, etc.
The Republic of Pemberly
Discussion group and Information site, primarily on the work of Jane Austen, some of it somewhat quirky, some possibly very useful. Includes electronic texts of Austen's six novels and various letters.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture--The Digital Schomburg collection of the New York Public Library: African American Women Writers of the 19th century
A collection of digitized online archived texts of literary works by 19th Century African American women writers. User can easily search by browsing the author list, title list, or types of works.
Victorian Women's Project
Indiana University provides a compilation of works composed by British women. Site includes anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Can search by word/phrase or simply by scanning the authors of the Victorian Women Writers Collection.
Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
This site lives up to its stated intent which is to provide a place “to learn about the lives and works of North American women writers of color”. One aspect of the site is simply that it identifies a very extensive list of women writers of color. A fair amount of biographical information is available as well as discourse about the writers and the writing scene.
Women Romantic-Era Writers
University of Nottingham out of the UK; features electronic texts including entire books, poems, etc. Many of the more prominent authors have links to critiques and reviews of the works as well as additional web pages and other resources. |
