Celebrate Women's History Month

Find events and related resources from the National Women's History Project website.

Read biographies about this year's honorees.

by Joyce Stevens.

recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing.

an electronic collection of women's literature from the Indiana University Library collection.

was established to promote the study of American women writers through research, teaching and publication.

is a searchable database containing works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.

an Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles.

is a digital initiative of the UC, Davis General Library.

an Electronic Guide to Literature, 1796-1834 - is a database containing material on 417 women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and 1,071 literary works published by them, based on the holdings of the Corvey Library.

is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century.

Deals with women who were journalists and photographers during the 2nd War. (from the Library of Congress).

University of Wisconsin - Madison, Memorial Library.

Browse the Modern English Collection -- Electronic Text Center.

is a World Wide Web project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in North America.

Compiled by Irene Joshi University of Washington Libraries, Seattle.

Essays on Contemporary Spanish-American Women Writers.

a detailed scholarly bibliography of writings by women from Munster, Ireland from 1800 to the present.

African American Women Writers the 19th Century.

links that will take you to passages from over 120 women writers. The entries are on women who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700, some or all of which has been translated into modern English.

a project of The Public Media Foundation, dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present.

Their mission is to to value the lives of women around the world.

This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women’s history in a global, non- U.S., context.

A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary.

Excellent website from Encyclopedia Britannica.

Extensive collection of links to women's history sites, bibliographies, full-text historical and contemporary essays, and other resources relevant to women's history.