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Digital Collections: European Women

Image of Mary Robinson from A Celebration of Women Writers A Celebration of Women Writers
The main strength of this online collection is its goal to provide "on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works." The works cover "a wide range of areas to indicate the variety of interests of women writers." Includes many browsing and searching features such as by author, century, country, and ethnicity. This site contains some non-English works in their orginal language as well as English.

British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (UC Davis)
This site includes E-texts of poetry written by British and Irish women between 1739 and 1832. Users can search by title, poet, header keyword, or date. Includes biographical entries for some authors from the Literary Encyclopedia.

Emory Women Writers Resource Project (Emory)
This project "is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century." Includes authors from Great Britain, France, and the United States. One can browse by ethnicity, genre, geography, or period.

Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women (Emory)
This site provides the full-text of works by German speaking female writers and artists. Subjects include Literature, Music, Journalism, Colonial/Travel, and Drama/Film. A resources section contains bibliographies, links, and ideas for teaching using Sophie. The Literature section includes some works translated into English.

Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University)
This site provides transcriptions of works by British women writers from the 19th century. All works are full-text, and include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.