Women Writers Online
"Women Writers Online" is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English ranging from 1526 to 1850. Currently, the database contains over 320 individual works, with around fifteen new texts being added to the collection every year.
The focus of the corpus is currently on hard to find or generally inaccessible texts from both well known and more obscure writers. Authors included in the corpus include, among many others:
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Aphra Behn
- Margaret Cavendish
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Margaret Fell
- Felicia Hemans
- Catherine Parr
- Mary Sidney
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Access to "Women Writers Online" is available through a through a web-based interface with a paid subscription, available to both institutions and individuals. There is also a free one-month trial period for potential subscribers. The WWP usually makes their textbase available free of charge for the month of march, in honor of Women's History Month.
In March 2012, the WWP released a new interface for Women Writers Online.
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