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A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. Part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior ro 1920. A selection of published works of fiction, poetry, biography and autobiography, and essays. Keyword searching within each work or throughout the collection. Works featured include Phillis Weatly, Poems the Narrative of Sojourner Truth and Harriet A. Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

General introduction to Grecian history and culture from the archaic period into the Hellenistic.

Site dedicated to the study of ancient Greek poetry from the Epics to Anacreontics.

An annotated bibliography of books written for girls which reflect the roles considered proper at the time. Titles are drawn from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. With few exceptions, titles are listed chronologically within the various subject headings. at Duke University.

Timely reviews of scholarly work in the field of classical studies (including archaeology). Archived from 1990 to the present.

Works by women writers and an extensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information. Browse by author, century, country, or ethnicity.

"The Great House and landscape at Chawton which Jane Austen knew well are being restored by a British educational charity, Chawton House Library, to be the future home of the Centre for the Study of Early English Womens Writing (1600-1830) and a unique collection of rare books currently housed in the USA. . . the Collection comprises several literary manuscripts and over 6,200 printed books, published between 1600 and 1830. . . . The Collection is particularly strong in fiction by women from around 1740, an area which attracts considerable international scholarly interest. As the major eighteenth century libraries tended not to collect womens fiction, some of the books in the Collection are very rare, even unique copies."

Homepage of the sub-faculties of Classical Languages and Literature and Ancient History at the University of Oxford.

This site provides "over 900 pages of news,information, games and controversy about the life, literature, art and archaeology of the ancient world of Greece & Rome."

"The Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum (CSL) is a collaborative project among scholars from a variety of disciplines with the main purpose of creating a digital library of Latin literature, spanning from the earliest epigraphic remains to the Neo-Latinists of the eighteenth century. Toward this end, we maintain an up-to-date catalogue of all Latin texts that are currently available online, making CSL a single, centralized resource for locating Latin literature on the internet."

A well-designed website and electronic journal on Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music. The website provides historical background (including descriptions of staging and plans of Greek & Roman theatres), while the journal explores contemporary performance of classical works.

Focus is on women and issues of gender among the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and other ancient cultures.

Sponsored by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, this magazine is accessible from volume 1, June 1993. There are tables of contents to the various issues, but no search mechanism. Each issue contains 1 to 3 articles, book reviews and a forum for scholars in the field.

A collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth to the ninteenth century. Prose, poetry, and drama are represented. Many texts deal with women, feminist issues, and the question of women's rights.

This website provides "a completely interactive digital library book".

Select from a list of over 400 works of classical literature, mainly Greco-Roman (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.Search by work and author, as well as from the entire archive.

A valuable resource for texts, bibliographies, pedagogical resources, organizations and databases devoted to medievalia.

Offers access to the Library's resources in the field [holdings, exhibits, etc.] as well as links to other useful sites.

Online catalog of the Loeb Classical Library, which publishes the work of classical Greek and Latin authors. Browse the listings by author, subject, or series number.

This site provides "links that will take you to passages from over 125 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. Each entry will tell you about the print sources from which the translated passages are taken it will also tell you of useful secondary sources and Internet sites, when those are available."

"The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics is a collaborative project of the Classics Department of Princeton University and the Classics Department of Stanford University. Its purpose is to make the results of current research undertaken by members of Princeton and Stanford Universities in the field of classics available in advance of final publication."

Links to texts, commentaries, and other resources.

Articles and videos from BBC News on the idea of happiness.

Provides links to Vergil scholarship on the web.

An annual sponsered by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and The National Council of Teachers of English, accessible from volume 1, Fall 1992.

Chronicles classic lesbian pulp fiction of the 1950s and early 1960s. From the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University.

"The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our 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."