North American Women's Letters and Diaries 
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Description: Full-text of diaries, journals, and letters written by 632 women visiting or living in North America. Drawn from several hundred sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. Numerous biographies are also contained in the database, which is scheduled to include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 7,000 pages of previously unpublished materials, when completed. Updated quarterly.
Coverage: Colonial times to 1950
Subject(s)
Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology
History, Genealogy & Archives
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