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  WWP
As the publisher of Women Writers Online, the WWP now supports the work of innumerable faculty, students, and readers at hundreds of institutions from around the world, by providing access to rare materials by women that otherwise would go unread and untaught.
The Brown University Women Writers Project has its intellectual roots in two communities whose synergy began to be evident at the end of the 1980s.
The first of these was the growing field of early modern women's studies, whose project was to reclaim the cultural importance of early women's writing and bring it back into our modern field of vision.
www.wwp.brown.edu /project/index.html   (1209 words)

  
 WSSLinks: Literature and culture
Canada's Early Women Writers, a Biographical Database - this database presents biographical and publication information for more than 470 women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language book or pamphlet of fiction or poetry that was published before 1940.
Victorian Women Writers Project - "The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
British Women Playwrights around 1800 - a project begun in 1997 with a session at the Modern Language Association conference devoted to rethinking the paradigms for British women playwrights.
libraries.mit.edu /humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html   (2353 words)

  
 WOMEN WRITERS
A Celebration of Women Writers is browsable by author, century, and country.
Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color, developed at the University of Minnesota by professors Toni McNaron (English), Carol Miller (American Studies), and Laurie Dickinson (graduate student in English).
Women's Literary Salons Archive, 1975-1985, New York, Cerridwen, Paris, Los Angeles; Ephemera from the Collection of Professor Gloria Orenstein, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California.
www.library.wisc.edu /libraries/WomensStudies/writers.htm   (829 words)

  
 Princeton University Library | Women's Studies
The Orlando Project, which is a history of women's writing in the British Isles.
The Perdita Project: Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations, "will produce an online guide to over 400 manuscript compilations around the world." The majority of manuscripts were compiled during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and contain poetry, cookery, and autobiographical works.
Women Writers Resource Project at Emory University is a pedagogical tool for text editing by undergraduates and graduate students.
firestone.princeton.edu /womenstu   (866 words)

  
 Women
Emory 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.
National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by educating the public concerning their accomplishments.
Victorian Women Writers Project The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
www.iup.edu /womens/womenhistorylinks.htm   (845 words)

  
 Victorian Women Letters Project
These three sites—Victorian Women Letters Project, Letters of a Victorian Lady, and the Victorian Women Writers Project—all concern women writers of the 19th century.
The first phase of the project concerns the correspondence of Anna Brownell Murphy Jameson (1794-1860) and Harriet Martineau (1802-1876).
Women writers had both to observe their surroundings and keep their eyes and ears closed to that which a respectable woman should not see or hear.
chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/r/12/wwh.html   (590 words)

  
 iEMLS (May, 2000) Hagglund, Elizabeth, Review of the Brown University Women Writers Project and the Perdita Project
This is a collection of 100 Renaissance texts from the Women Writers Project database supplemented by contextualizing introductions to each work and topical essays on women's life and writing in the period.
The project is currently in the process of purchasing microfilms of approximately 400 manuscripts which will form the basis of the information provided on the database.
The project team are involved in developing appropriate standards for the description of manuscripts and in the application of SGML encoding to the task, and clearly wish to engage with others working in this relatively new field.
extra.shu.ac.uk /emls/iemls/reviews/hagglund.htm   (1301 words)

  
 Research Guide: Irish Women Writers - Boston College
A list of women writers by date is included as well as a list of cross-references for other names, such as married names or pseudonyms.
Introduction states "This first anthology of Irish women's poetry should enable the reader to follow chronologically the development of such poetry during the past two hundred and fifty years, and to look at ways in which women's poetry reflects Irish social and political history." Many other anthologies are discussed in the introduction.
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.
www.bc.edu /libraries/research/guides/s-irishwomen   (5031 words)

  
 Women Writers Online
is the database of the Women Writers Project (WWP), Brown University.
The Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding.
Its goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.
www2.lib.udel.edu /database/wwo.html   (240 words)

  
 Women Writers Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Women Writers Project is an initiative based at Brown University, with the aim of making texts by pre-Victorian women writers more accessible.
The eventual goal of the project is to make available all English language works written or co-authored by women up to 1850.
In the mid-1990s the project engaged in research concerning systems for encoding texts in electronic form, based on the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Women_Writers_Project   (223 words)

  
 Women Writers Project
However, since the mid 1980's the Women Writers Project (http://www.wwp.brown.edu/) at Brown University has extensively used markup languages and has seen and participated in the evolution of markup language from SGML to HTML to XML.
Accordingly, the Women Writers Project's text encoding strategy [6] is to record as much of the information about a text as possible.
Just as the Women Writers Project uses SGML to encode their scholarly texts so that information about the texts can be easily used, XML allows other people to encode their own text documents and to make the data contained within more useful.
www.acm.org /crossroads/xrds6-2/women.html   (2467 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Women writers
Collection of poetry by British and Irish women written between 1789, the onset of the French Revolution, and 1832, the passage of the Reform Act, a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period.
Includes biographies of 35 women who played a prominent part in the struggle for equality, a database of written primary sources produced by, or about, these thirty-five women and a collection of visual images that reflect the different views on the emancipation of women.
Project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of colour in North America.
bubl.ac.uk /link/w/womenwriters.htm   (745 words)

  
 Women writers, women's writing
A searchable database of French women writers from the 16th to the 19th century.
Women Writers Project, Brown University.The Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding.
A collection of edited and unedited texts by English-speaking women writers of the 17th and 19th centuries.
www.zeroland.co.nz /literature_women.html   (245 words)

  
 The Orlando Project: Related Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The Orlando Project differs from these initiatives in that we are structuring and electronically encoding scholarly work which is in the process of being written, rather than texts that are already written.
The Brown Women Writers Project is developing an electronic textbase of women's writing in English before 1830, currently available by subscription.
The Emory Women Writers Resource Project is a pedagogical tool designed to allow graduate and undergraduate students to edit texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
www.humanities.ualberta.ca /Orlando/low-g/p-relate.htm   (229 words)

  
 97-001 (Women Writers Project)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The Women Writers Project has received a $190,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to collect, encode and disseminate via the Internet printed books written in English by women before 1830.
Over the coming two years, the WWP will add 50 new texts to its textbase of early women's writing to bring the total of encoded texts to 300.
Created in 1986 as a project and funded by NEH as an electronic archive in 1988, the Women Writers Project pioneered the use of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to create a versatile and long-lived scholarly resource.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/1997-98/97-001.html   (305 words)

  
 Women Writers Project
The Women Writers Project is a research organization devoted to making early women¼s writing available for teaching and research.
The WWP was founded in the mid-1980s as a reclamation project to bring early women's writings out of obscurity and into classroom use.
The WWP began as an effort to create an archive of pre-Victorian women¼s texts on computer that could be printed out and distributed in hard copy and sold at cost.
www.acrlnec.org /sigs/wsig/brown.html   (1450 words)

  
 Southern Women Writers
his is a proposed outline of the writing assignments for the southern women writers project.
Select a writer from those collected in the Weaks and Perry anthology or one whose works we are reading in this class and post a short explanation on the Discussion Board about why you'd like to know more about her.
Identify at least three sources on the life of your writer--at least one of which should be a book or non-reference source; write a brief (500-1000 words) biographical sketch of your writer including the major events of her life and writing career.
www.loyno.edu /~bewell/465lit/sww3project.html   (268 words)

  
 WWP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding.
Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.
We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.
www.wwp.brown.edu   (69 words)

  
 Literary Resources -- Feminism and Women's Literature (Lynch)
Women authors appear throughout these pages, and "women authors" is a subhead under most of the period-specific pages.
A fledgling project "designed to provide students with unfamiliar texts written by women and to supply essential background and ancillary materials for the writers and their works." Not much there yet.
An archive of women writers from 1350 to 1830.
andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Lit/women.html   (367 words)

  
 For Writers
The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
The IWWG, founded in 1976, is a network for the personal and professional empowerment of women through writing and open to all regardless of portfolio.
As such, it has established a remarkable record of achievement in the publishing world, as well as in circles where lifelong learning and personal transformation are valued for their own sake.
www.womenstudiocenter.org /id100.html   (857 words)

  
 Victorian Women Writers Project
The condition of women of the lower orders is beset with hardships; and it is for the very reason that a lady is freed from those heavy trials, that she should exert every power she possesses or can acquire, first to understand, and then, if possible, to remedy them.
But it is quite certain that if women had heretofore been represented in Parliament, such evils and wrongs would never have reached, unchecked, their present height, and that whenever women are at last represented, some more earnest efforts will be made to arrest them.
Because the denial of the franchise to qualified women entails on the community a serious loss; namely, that of the legislative influence of a numerous class, whose moral sense is commonly highly developed, and whose physical defencelessness attaches them peculiarly to the cause of justice and public order.
www.indiana.edu /~letrs/vwwp/cobbe/cobbewhy.html   (1195 words)

  
 The Victorian Women Writers Project: The Library as a Creator and Publisher of Electronic Texts
Nevertheless, using my experience as the general editor of the Victorian Women Writers Project (VWW Project), [1] I would like to outline a number of reasons why librarians need to be knowledgeable about and involved with the creation and publication of electronic texts.
However, it soon became apparent that women in this period wrote in a wide variety of genres, and, in recognition of the importance of these other genres, the VWW Project was expanded to include novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, and other forms of expression.
Even though many of these writers were very popular and critically well received in their own times, most of the writers included in the VWW Project are somewhat lesser known today than such contemporaries as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Christina Rossetti.
epress.lib.uh.edu /pr/v7/n6/will7n6.html   (3082 words)

  
 Victorian Women Writers Project
Not to speak of the bitter hardships, the violence and slavery to which the miserable women under this State control are subjected, the young men who come in contact with them lose all generous feeling, and, corrupted before they are full grown, they acquire the skepticism which withers the hearts and falsifies the conscience.
A quarter of each cantonment should be reserved for such women as are permitted to remain in camp; and all such women should be compelled to remain in houses or rooms specifically reserved to each by a registered number.
On any women being found to be diseased in this quarter, or on any soldier found to be suffering in like manner, all such persons that the registered visits show to have rendered themselves liable to contagion should be put in quarantine until such time as their immunity can be verified.
www.letrs.indiana.edu /cgi-bin/vwwp-query.pl?type=HTML&rgn=DIV1&idno=InU-AHF7258&byte=7013345&q1=   (7911 words)

  
 Web Inquiry Project - Women Writers in History
Throughout history, women writers have been ridiculed and ignored for sharing their thoughts and opinions through writing.
Throughout the past couple decades, many literary historians, critics, and women themselves have worked very hard to overturn this general feeling of resentment toward women writers.
The final project will be a combination of the information they have found that they have kept track of through Inspiration, Microsoft Word, and through pictures.
edweb.sdsu.edu /wip/examples/womanauthors   (1476 words)

  
 Brown University Women Writers Project
"The Women Writers Project textbase is a collection of over 200 English texts by women from the period 1450-1850.
"The Women Writers Project is primarily supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and Brown University.
The WWP is a non-profit enterprise, headquartered at Brown University."
www.tei-c.org /Applications/br04.xml   (161 words)

  
 Feminist Studies Collections: Women Writers
Women Advising Women -microfilm of respresentative women's journals, almanacs, and advice books dating from 1625-1837, drawn from the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Women, Education and Literature: the Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849 - microfilm copies of literary manuscripts, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers of the author.
the kassandra project "aims to be an introduction to German women writers, artists, and thinkers during the second half of the eighteenth century through the first decades of the nineteenth."
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/kkerns/womwritlg.html   (622 words)

  
 96-014 (Women Writers Project)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The project will compare the economics of online delivery of a key group of important texts by women to the costs of delivering them by traditional means.
As part of the initiative, the WWP will add 55 important texts by Renaissance women in English to its textbase of pre-Victorian women's writing, thus preparing for electronic delivery a coherent set of approximately 100 texts by Renaissance women.
Created in 1986 as a project and funded as an electronic archive in 1988, the Women Writers Project pioneered the use of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to create a versatile and long-lived scholarly resource.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/1996-97/96-014.html   (599 words)

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