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• A Celebration of Women Writers

  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
  Comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women. Searchable by time period, country, and author's last name.

• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

  http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
  Digital collection of 52 works by 19th-century black women writers in the United States. Includes a keyword-searchable full text database.

• Domestic Goddesses

  http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/
  A moderated online journal devoted to writers of domestic fiction. Focuses on American women writers from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

• Dorothy Dix Collection

  http://library.apsu.edu/dix/dix.htm
  Information on a collection at Austin Peay State University dedicated to Elizabeth Meriweather Gilmer, an American journalist who wrote as Dorothy Dix during the 19th and 20th centuries.

• International Centre for Women Playwrights

  http://www.womenplaywrights.org/
  Dedicated to the support of women playwrights around the world.

• International Women's Writing Guild

  https://iwwg.wildapricot.org/
  Non-profit organization for the empowerment of women through writing. Provides details of regional workshops and information about services and benefits available to IWWG members. No portfolio is required.

• Journalism and Women Symposium

  http://www.jaws.org/
  An organization for women journalists which combats gender bias and fosters education.

• Mary Shelley and Frankenstein

  http://www.marywshelley.com/
  Resources for the study of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• National League of American Pen Women

  http://www.nlapw.org/
  Promotes development of the creative talents of professional women in the arts. Includes information about branches, officers, events, and organization history.

• The Victorian Women Writers Project

  http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/
  Created to provide " highly accurate transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late nineteenth century." Helpful for students interested in rare texts of Victorian women's writing, including poems.

• Wicked Alice

  http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/wickedalicemag/
  Women-centered literary e-zine including poetry, essays, fictions, articles, and book reviews.

• Women Related Arts and Humanities Sites

  http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_arts.html#lit
  Annotated, frequently updated list of content-rich sites relating to women's literature, maintained by Joan Korenman.

• Women Writers

  http://www.womenwriters.net/
  Literary magazine that features original fiction, poetry, scholarship, book reviews, links, and author interviews. Includes extensive information about individual authors.

• Women Writers Project

  http://www.wwp.brown.edu/
  The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Their goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.

• Zine Lovers Etc

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zineloversetc/
  Club for girls that run and enjoy e-zines.

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