Bibliography of Collective Biographies of Women
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: An annotated bibliography of the more than 930 books published in English between 1830 and 1940 that collect three or more women's biographies in narrative form. Based on the book - How to make it as a woman : collective biographical history from Victoria to the present , by Alison Booth.
The Collective Biographies of Women is produced in collaboration with NINES , which is working to bring together peer-reviewed online scholarship centered in nineteenth-century studies, British and American. Other projects include: Rossetti Archive; the Poetess Archive; the Swinburne Project; the Romantic Circles Praxis Series; Romanticism on the Net; the Walt Whitman Archive; the Emily Dickinson Project; the Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive; the Blake Archive; Victorian Studies Bibliography; the Ambrose Bierce Project and Journal; British Women Romantic Poets; the Whistler Correspondence; and more material from Romantic Circles.
Coverage: 19th and 20th Centuries
Subject(s):
Almanacs, Biographies & Encyclopedias
Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology
Literature & Language
Publicly Available Resources
Related Databases
Gerritsen's Women's History
Historical Abstracts
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Women and Social Movements in the U.S.
Other Related Links:
Women in America, 1820 to 1842
