Women's Studies Group

Internet Resources

This page will be updated on an ongoing basis and is currently under construction.  Please let us know if there are any websites that are not listed here that you believe would be of use to our members.

All sites are listed alphabetically within each sub category.

WSG Member Websites

• Julie Peakman ~ is an author and historian working on Sex in History

General Links

• The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies ~ promoting the study of all aspects of eighteenth century cultural history
• The Brown Women Writers Project ~ a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding
• A Celebration of Women Writers ~ provides links to a variety of online resources
• Chawton House Library & Study Centre  ~ promoting the study of women writing in English before 1830
• Corvey Women Writers on the Web  ~ a database containing material on 417 women writers of the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, based on the holdings of the Corvey Library
• Early Modern Resources ~ includes a wide range of online resources for the early modern period, with a good selection relating to women.
• The Women's Committee of the Economic History Society ~ aims to encourage women to participate in all areas of economic and social history.
• History of Feminism Network ~ This website is designed to be a meeting and debating space for everyone interested in celebrating, exploring and debating the history of feminism.
• Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies  ~ established to promote & facilitate the study of the cultures of German-speaking & Romance language countries across a range of disciplines in the humanities
• The Orlando Project ~ an integrated history of Women's Writing in the British Isles
• The Perdita Project ~ an online catalogue of Early Modern Women's manuscript compilations
• Society for the Study of Early Modern Women ~ Interdisciplinary society based in the US
• Women's History Network ~ a UK association concerned with promoting women's history
• The Women's Library ~ The library houses an extensive collection of women's history, combined with exhibitions and events

Specialist Links

• The Jane Austen Society ~ UK Society promoting interest in Austen's life and works.
• The Burney Centre ~ the website of the Burney Centre in Canada,  dedicated to the publication of scholarly editions of the journals and letters of Frances Burney
• The Susan Burney Letters Project ~ a University of Nottingham project focussing on the 330 letters and letter-journals penned by Susan Burney in the late 1700s