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Comments on MetaFilter post Women WritersSun, 30 Mar 2003 13:08:35 -0800Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:08:35 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Women Writers
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<a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html">A Celebration of Women Writers.</a> 'Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works... '<br>
'All too often, works by women, and resources about women writers, are hard to find. We attempt to provide easy access to available on-line information. '
Categorised by country, century and ethnicity; with <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/wr-sites.html">links</a> to some interesting specialty collections :- <a href="http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html">19th century African-American writers</a> (including <a href="http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs-b/@Generic__CollectionView;hf=0">slave narratives</a>); <a href="http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/usrpages/collect/girls.htm">school stories</a> (covers and links); <a href="http://www.ortakales.com/illustrators/">children's book illustrators</a>; <a href="http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/womtrav.htm">travel writers</a>; <a href="http://womensearlyart.net/reference/poets.html">early Japanese poets and poet-painters</a>; <a href="http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/index.html">sci fi</a>, and more.post:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.24715Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:07:14 -0800plepWritersWomenDirectoryBy: askheaves
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Who told them they were allowed to write?
Back in the kitchen, or I'll walk around the bed 3 times.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.24715-463780Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:08:35 -0800askheavesBy: thomas j wise
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There are a number of more specialized etext collections devoted to women writers, including the <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp">Victorian Women Writers Project</a> at Indiana University (center of all things Victorian in the US); the <a href="http://omega.cc.umb.edu/~fayeng/archive2.html">Bluestocking Archive</a> (eighteenth-century and Romantic), hosted by Prof. Elizabeth Fay of the University of Massachusetts--Boston; and <a href="http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/">British Women Romantic Poets</a>, based on the holdings at the University of California, Davis.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.24715-463782Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:14:52 -0800thomas j wiseBy: four panels
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The first novel was written by a Japanese woman named <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Murasaki+Shikibu&btnG=Google+Search">Murasaki Shikibu</a> (Don Quixote be damned!)comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.24715-463798Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:55:03 -0800four panelsBy: jessamyn
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And don't forget <a href="http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/begin-ab.htm">Aphra Behn</a> who was the first professional writer in the English language and one of the earliest writers who used an <a href="http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/voice.htm">omniscient narrative voice</a>, another early novelist.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.24715-463799Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:56:59 -0800jessamynBy: holloway
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I think it's great that women have put their violent past behind them and are now accepted in wider society.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.24715-463807Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:20:32 -0800hollowayBy: iconomy
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The children's book illustrator's link is wonderful! Hell, the whole post is wonderful.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.24715-463888Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:18:45 -0800iconomyBy: Lynsey
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*applauds plep, gets ready to read each lovely link...*comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.24715-464076Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:37:06 -0800LynseyBy: madamjujujive
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Wowie - great and very rich post, plep - what a mother lode! The specialty collections you pointed out are great and there are so many more - <a href="http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/">Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement</a> including the infamous Scum Manifest by Valerie Solanis, most noteworthy for having shot Andy Warhol; <a href="http://www.illyria.com/vnwomen.html">Women in Viet Nam</a> and <a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/">Women Come to the Front</a> about women journalists in WWII; <a href="http://home.sprynet.com/~ditallop/homepage.htm">Literary Women of the Left Bank</a> ...good lord, I could go on, there are so many great resources. Thanks, plep - seems I am always in your debt for my best links.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.24715-464100Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:40:45 -0800madamjujujiveBy: Sidhedevil
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I, for one, welcome our female overladies.comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.24715-464109Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:57:41 -0800Sidhedevil
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