Resource Guide:
American Women in Literature
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- The Edith Wharton Society
- Edith Wharton Collection at Yale University
- Louisa May Alcott
- The Kate Chopin International Society
- Emily Dickinson: Dickinson Electronic Archives
- Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence Documents at Yale University
- The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society
- The Toni Morrison Society
- Pearl S. Buck
- The Willa Cather Foundation
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Women and literature
- Women and literature - 20th century
- Women and literature - America
- Women and literature - Appalachian Region, Southern
- Women and literature - California
- Women and literature - History
- Feminism and literature
- Feminism and literature - America
- Feminism and literature - West
- Literaure - women authors
- Literature - women authors - adaptations
- Women - poetry
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- American Literature
- American Poet
- Cather Studies
- Edith Wharton Review
- The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
- The North American Review
- Review Americana: A Literary Journal
- The Southern Quarterly
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| The lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography | PS 2502 .M38 2012 |
| American women writers: An Annotated bibliography of criticism | Z 1229 .W8 W45 |
| Harlem Renaissance: Five novels of the 1920s | PS 508 .N3 H365 2011 |
| Poems from the women's movement | PS 595 .F45 P645 2009 |
| A Historical guide to Emily Dickinson | eBook |
| Women Pulitzer playwrights: Biographical profiles and analyses of the plays | PS 338 .W6 C73 2004 |
| Masterpieces of women's literature | PS 147 .M37 1996 |
| "The changing same:" Black women's literature, criticism, and theory | PS 374 .N4 M37 1995 |
| The Culture of sentiment: Race, gender, and the sentimentality in nineteenth-century America | PS 217 .S55 C85 1992 |