Digital Humanities databases on the history of women’s writing and publishing, and digital editions of works by women

This list is based on an earlier survey published by Amelia Sanz, ‘Para imaginar una historia de las mujeres en digital’, in Tropelías, 36 (2021) https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2021365320. First modified in July 2024, the changes between those dates are in themselves significant: twelve new site versions, five with a new URL and/or hosting institution, and two no longer available, such as Les écrits féminins non-fictionnels du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle. Un inventaire raisonné (1999?) http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~margirou/accueil.htm. Projects that are no longer active due to technical and financial sustainability problems have been excluded, as evidenced by a URL that no longer works for six months or longer; some of these were presented by Georgianna Ziegler, ‘Women Writers Online: An Evaluation and Annotated Bibliography of Web Resources’, in Early Modern Literary Studies, 6.3 (2001) http://purl.oclc.org/emls/06-3/ziegbib.htm, and by Laura Mandell, ‘Gendering Digital Literary History: What counts for Digital Humanities’, in Susan Schreibman (ed.), A new companion to Digital Humanities (New Jersey, Wiley Backwell, 2017), pp. 511–523. See also, for France, the SIEFAR’s ‘Web Sites dedicated to women’ (https://siefar.org/en/la-recherche/sites-par-femmes).

We have done our best to provide information that is as accurate and up-to-date as possible, but should your database be missing from the list, or the information in the listing need to be corrected or updated, please contact either Amelia Sanz, amsanz@filol.ucm.es, or Alicia C. Montoya, Alicia.Montoya@ru.nl, so we can make the changes needed.

Databases on the history of women’s writing and publishing

Name of database	URL	Main editor or director	Institution	Date of public launch
A Database of Irish Women's Writing, 1800-2005	https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/irishwomenwriters/database/	Maria Luddy & Gerardine Meaney	University of Warwick	2018
Archives of the invisible. A base for digitization and research of sources in the field of women’s history in the Macedonian past	hhttps://nevidliviarhivi.mk/magazines/	Ivana Hadzievaka & Jana Kocevska	Center for Research on Nationalism and Culture. Skopje	2022
Archivo de Mujeres	https://archivodemujeres.omeka.net/collections/browse	Clara Inés Ramírez González	Universidad Autónoma de México	2020
BIESES: Bibliografía de escritoras españolas	http://62.204.211.38:8080/bieses/	Maria Martos & Nieves Baranda	Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia	2004
Catálogo de Santas Vivas base de datos	https://basededatos.visionarias.es/	Blanca Santos de la Morena	Universidad Complutense	2024
A Celebration of Women Writers	http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/	Mary Marck Ockerbloom	Library of Congress?	1994
Collective Biographies of Women	https://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/	Alisson Booth	University of Virginia	2013–2017
Corvey Women Writers on the Web (CB2): An electronic guide to literature 1796–1834	https://extra.shu.ac.uk/corvey/cw3/indexohp.htm	Philip Cox, Emma Clery & Julie Shaffer	Sheffield Hallam University	1996
Dictionnaire des Femmes de l’ancienne France	https://siefar.org/dictionnaire/fr/Accueil	Marie-Élisabeth Henneau	Société Internationale pour l’Etude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime (SIEFAR)	2010
Donne in Arcadia (1690–1800)	http://www.arcadia.uzh.ch (being moved)	Tatiana Crivelli	University of Zurich	2004
Elektronska Zbirka Pisma	https://pisma.org/pisma	Katja Mihurko	University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia)	2022
Emory Women Writers Research Project (texts by women writing from the 17th century through the early 20th century)	http://womenwriters.library.emory.edu/ewwrp/ (Site undergoing maintenance, temporarily unavailable; no alternative link)	Sheila Cavanagh	Emory University	2006
Epistolae: Medieval Women's Latin Letters	https://epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/letters/	Joan Ferrante	Columbia University Libraries	2022 (earlier version online since 2014)
Escritoras. Women Writers in Portuguese before 1900	https://escritoras-em-portugues.com/en/	Antonio Ramalho, Inês de Ornellas, Isabel Mourallao, et al.	University of Lisbon	2023
ExFemLiOn: Deutschsprachige Literatur von Frauen im Rahmen migrantischer Bewegungen (1900 bis heute)	https://usc-vitruvia.es/omeka/items/search?lang=en	Dolors Sabaté Planes et al.	Universidad de Santiago de Compostela	2016-2020?
Female Robinsonades – a bibliography	https://www2.hf.uio.no/tjenester/bibliografi/Robinsonades	Anne Birgitte Rønning	University of Oslo	2011
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index	http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/default.aspx	Margaret Schaus	University of Iowa Libraries	2014
Franciscan Web	https://franwomen.sbu.edu/default.aspx	Jean François Godet-Calogera, Bert Roest, Alison More and Matt Mackowski	St. Bonaventure University	2003?
Frauen des Humanismus	https://mateo.uni-mannheim.de/start6.html	Heinz Kredel, Wolfgang Schibel, Emir Zuljevic	Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim	1996
French Women Writers	https://artflsrv04.uchicago.edu/philologic4.7/fww/	Robert Morrissey	ARTFL Project. University of Chicago	2009
Fürstinnenbibliotheken und Wissenspraktiken im deutschsprachigen Raum des 18. Jahrhunderts	https://tcdh.uni-trier.de/de/projekt/fuerstinnenbibliotheken-und-wissenspraktiken-im-deutschsprachigen-raum-des-18-jahrhunderts	Joëlle Weiss	University of Trier	2024
Gosteli-Stiftung – Archiv zur Geschichte der schweizerischen Frauenbewegung	https://gosteli.anton.ch/	Lina Gafner & Simone Isler	Marthe Gosteli Foundation (Switzerland)	2010
Herstory Academic Database for Turkey	http://www.istanbulkadinmuzesi.org/en/herstory_academic_database_for_turkey/searching	Meral Akkent	Women's Museum Istanbul	2011
Knjiženstvo, Theory and History of Women's Writing in Serbian until 1915.	http://knjizenstvo.etf.bg.ac.rs/en	Biljana Dojčinović	University of Belgrade	2011
Mary Zirin's Bibliography of Pre-Revolutionary Writings by Women	https://zlist.omeka.net/items/browse?collection=4	Annabella Irvine, Sveta Stoytcheva & Mary Fleming Zirin	University of Illinois	2009
Ming Qing Women’s Writers	https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/search/index_eng.php	Grace S. Fong	McGill Library Digital Initiatives	2003 (last update)
Monastic Matrix. A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE.	https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/monasticmatrix/search	Alison Beach	School of History. University of St. Andrews	2021
The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing	https://stainforth.scu.edu/	Kirstyn Leuner & Deborah Hollis	Santa Clara University	2014
Studying Historical Early Women’s Reception: Oeuvres, Texts, Engagements (SHEWROTE)	https://shewrote.rich.ru.nl	Alicia Montoya, Amelia Sanz et al.	Radboud University	2023 (new iteration of WomenWriters database, started 1997, ed. Suzan van Dijk)
Théâtre de femmes 16–18	https://citedesdames.github.io/theatre1618/	Philippe Gambette	Université Gustave Eiffel	2023
The Reception & Circulation of Early Women's Writing, 1550–1700 (RECIRC)	https://recirc.universityofgalway.ie/explore	Marie-Louise Coolahan	University of Ireland Galway	2014-2020
Russian Culture and Gender Studies	https://www2.slavistik.uni-freiburg.de/slavlit/de/index.php	Elisabeth Cheauré	Slavischen Seminar der Universität Freiburg	1996?
Zolotaja ručka: Russian Women Writers and Women's Writing in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	https://zolotajarucka.squarespace.com/	Sara Dickinson	Università degli Studi di Genova	2015
The History of Nordic Women Writers (NWL)	https://nordicwomensliterature.net	Anne-Marie Mai	KVINFO. Copenhagen	2008?
Orlando. Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present	https://orlando.cambridge.org/	Susan Brown, Patricia Clements & Isobel Grundy	Cambridge University Press	2022 (initial publication in 2006)
Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700	https://www.perditamanuscripts.amdigital.co.uk/	Elizabeth Clarke	University of Warwick	2021 (earlier version online since 1997)
Texts on the move: Reception of Women’s Writing in Finland and Russia, 1840–2020	https://tekstitliikkeessa.com/ and https://puolukka.rd.tuni.fi/tekstitliikkeessa/#/search	Viola Parente- Čapková	Turku University	2022
Victorian Women Writers Project	https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/welcome.do;jsessionid=9D045A849D0E08D0BC6994381FCD18D4	Angela Courtney & Michelle Dalmau	Indiana University Digital Library	1995
Voices from the Gaps	https://hdl.handle.net/11299/164018	Toni McNaron & Carol Miller	University of Minnesota	1996-2014
WeChangEd. Women Editors in Europe, 1710–1920	https://www.wechanged.ugent.be/#stories	Marianne van Remoortel	Ghent University	2015
Women's Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO), integrated in Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) database	http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/forms/advanced?people_gend=female	Kim McLean-Fiander, James Daybell, Howard Hotson & Miranda Lewis	University of Oxford	2013
Women Writers in Turkey	http://en.writersofturkey.net (URL not functioning, database being moved)	Burcu Alkan & Çimen Günay-Erkol	?	2011
Women's Museum Istanbul	http://www.istanbulkadinmuzesi.org/en	Meral Akkent	Women's Museum Istanbul	2012
The Women’s Print History Project	https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/	Michelle Levy, Kate Moffatt & Kandice Sharren	Simon Fraser University	2015
Women Writers Project	http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/	Julia Flanders	Northeastern University	2013 (first version online in 1999)
Women Writers Routes	https://www.womenwriters.eu	Andreja Richter	Women Writers Route Association. Ljubljana	2017
Writing for Women – W4W	https://w4w.uv.es/CIRGEN/consulta	Mónica Bolufer	University of Valencia	2024

Digital editions of women’s writing (alphabetical by author name)

Name of site	URL	Main editor(s)	Institution	Date of launching
The Jane Addams Digital Edition	https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu	Cathy Moran	School of Humanities and Global Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey	2015
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century	https://libguides.nypl.org/african-american-women-writers-of-the-19th-Century	Serena Torres?	Shomburg Center for Research in Black Culture – New York Public Library	2020
Romantic Circles	https://romantic-circles.org/editions	Michele Speitz	University of Colorado	1996?
Hanna Arendt. Kritische Gesamtausgabe	https://hannah-arendt-edition.net/	Hannah Gerlach, Dr. Ingo Kieslich	Freie Universität	2020
Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition	https://janeausten.ac.uk/index.html	Kathryn Sutherland	English Faculty and St Anne’s College, Oxford	2010
Martha Ballard’s Diary Online	https://dohistory.org/diary/index.html	Robert R. McCausland & Cyntia MacAlman McCauland	George Mason University	2000
Elisabeth Barrett Browning Archive	https://ebbarchive.org/	Marjorie Stone & Keith Lawson	Dalhousie University	2009
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture. A Multimedia Archive.	https://utc.iath.virginia.edu/	Stephen Railton	University of Virginia	2009 (first version in 1998)
The Willa Cather Archive	https://cather.unl.edu/	Emily J. Rau	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	2017 (project originated in 1997)
La correspondance d’Isabelle de Charrière	https://charriere.huygens.knaw.nl/	Suzan van Dijk	IND-Huygens Institute. Amsterdam	2024
Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry	https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/edc/	Martha Nell Smith & Lara Vetter	University of Virginia Press	2008
Emily Dickinson Archive, an open-access website for the manuscripts of Emily Dickinson	https://www.edickinson.org/	Leslie A. Morris	Harvard University	?
Emily Dickinson Collection	https://archivesspace.amherst.edu/repositories/2/resources/167	Daria D'Arienzo	Amherst College Archives	2005
Louise Dumont an Gustav Lindemann – Eine digitale Briefedition	https://emuseum.duesseldorf.de/objects/534014/louise-dumont-an-gustaf-lindemann--eine-digitale-briefediti;jsessionid=6E099FFF08C63DA06B7F0FF00A0555AB	Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann	Theatermuseum der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf und Moderne im Rheinland	2012/2013
In Transition: Selected Poems by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.	http://digital.lib.umd.edu/transition/	Tanya Clement	University of Maryland	2008
The Firstling/Erstling/He Complex by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven	http://scholarlyediting.org/2012/editions/baroness/main.baroness.html	Tanya Clement & Gaby Divay	University of Maryland	2012
Maria Jane Jewsbury: The Oceanides	https://romantic-circles.org/editions/oceanides (URL no longer functioning)	Judith Pascoe	University of Maryland	2003
Selma Lagerlöf Archive	https://litteraturbanken.se/f%C3%B6rfattare/Lagerl%C3%B6fS	Louise Vinge	Litteraturbanken	2004
The Dolley Madison Digital Edition	https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/dmde/	Holly C. Shulman	The University of Virginia Press	2004
Madeleine et Georges de Scudéry: Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus	https://artamene.othone.org/index.php?partie=edition	Christophe Schuwey & Claude Bourqui	Le SITEL de l’Université de Neuchâtel	2002
The Book of Margery Kempe	https://english.selu.edu/humanitiesonline/kempe/showcase/webapp.php	Joel W. Fredell	Southeastern Louisiana University	2015
In oorlogsnood. Virginie Lovelings dagboek 1914-1918	https://edities.kantl.be/loveling/m_1914-07.htm	Bert Van Raemdonck	University of Ghent	2005
Elisabeth Montagu Correspondence Online	https://emco.swan.ac.uk/home/	Nicole Pohl	Swansea University	2020
The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition	http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/PinckneyHorry	Constance B. Schulz	University of Virginia Press	2012
Christine de Pizan. The making of the Queen’s manuscripts	http://www.pizan.lib.ed.ac.uk	James Laidlaw	University of Edinburgh – The British Library	Text 2010, all manuscript images 2005
Clara Katharina Pollaczek “Arthur Schnitzler und ich”. Digitale Ausgabe	https://pollaczek.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/	Martin Anton Müller & Laura Untner	Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage	2023
The Letters of Christina Rossetti. A digital edition	https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/crossetti/	Antony H. Harrison	University of Virginia Press	2006
The Margaret Sanger Papers: Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel	http://modeleditions.blackmesatech.com/mep/MS/docs/ms-table.html	Esther Katz, Cathy Maron Hajo & Peter C. Engelman	New York University	2000
The Speeches and Articles of Margaret Sanger, 1911–1959: A Digital Edition	https://sanger.hosting.nyu.edu/documents/electroniced/	Esther Katz	New York University	2015?
The Olive Schreiner Letters Online	https://www.oliveschreiner.org/	Liz Stanley	University of Edinburgh, University of Shefield & Leeds Beckett University	2012
Journal of Emily Shore	https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/EmilyShore/make-page.xqy	Barbara Timm Gates	University of Virginia	2006
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers	https://www.loc.gov/collections/elizabeth-cady-stanton-papers/about-this-collection/	Ann D. Gordon	Rutgers University	2000/2012
Woolf Online	http://www.woolfonline.com/?node=content	Pamela L Caughie, Nick Hayward, Mark Hussey, Peter Shillingsburg, George K. Thiruvathukal	Loyola University Chicago	2013
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The Pennsylvania Electronic Edition	https://knarf.english.upenn.edu/	Stuart Curran	University of Pennsylvania	?