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Links Database: Women writers

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• Bradstreet, Anne (1)
• Cary, Elizabeth (1)
• Elizabeth I, of England (2)
• Lanyer, Aemilia (2)
• Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (3)
• Sidney, Mary (see also Wroth, Lady Mary) (1)
• Winchilsea, Countess of, Anne Finch (1)
• Wroth, Lady Mary (1)

• A Celebration of Women Writers: 1501 - 1600

  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/1501-1600.html

  A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, maintains a collection of e-texts of Renaissance women writers:

  keywords: writers, female, women

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• MATEO - editio theodoro-palatina online

  http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/start6.html

  The University of Mannheim, Germany, provides electronic facsimiles of Latin and German texts by Renaissance women. This site is in German:

  keywords: german, facsimiles, latin, women

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Renaissance Forum

  http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v1no1/clare.htm

  Clare, Janet.Transgressing Boundaries: Women's Writing in the Renaisscance and Reformation. (University College Dublin). Exerpt:"The writings of women, whether religious, popular, humanist or courtly, had in the mid sixteenth to early seventeenth century at least one common aspect: women writers represented in their work an alternative culture which ran alongside the dominant culture and in writing as some did with a view to publication, they were transgressing boundaries." View the full-text version of this document at:

  keywords: culture, female, forum, reformation, seventeenth, sixteenth, women

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• The Perdita Project

  http://human.ntu.ac.uk/perdita/

  The Perdita Project: Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations, maintained by Jill Seal Millman of the University of Warwick, is located at:

  keywords: early, modern, women

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Women Writers Resource Project

  http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html

  TheEmory Women Writers Research Projectis home to a collection of texts by women "writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century." Access this collection at:

  keywords: collection, english, seventeenth, women

  valid as of 2005-09-14