Subject
Research Guides
English Literature:
Women Authors in the U.S.
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of topics dealing with American women authors.
Background Information Sources
Available in the Library's reference area:
| Encyclopedia of American Social History (3 volumes) | REF HN57 .E58 1993 |
| Handbook of American Women’s History | REF HQ1410 .H36 2000 |
| Great Lives from History/American Women Series (5 vols.) | REF HQ1412 .G74 1995 |
| Contemporary Authors (multiple volumes) | REF PN 451 .C66 |
| Feminist Writers | REF PN451 .F465 1996 |
| Great Women Writers | REF PN471 .G74 1994 |
| Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (multiple volumes) | REF PN771 .G27 |
| American Women Writers: a Critical Ref. Guide (4 vols.) | REF PS147 .A42 2000 |
| Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the U.S. | REF PS147 .O94 1995 |
| Modern American Women Writers | REF PS151 .M54 1990 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse the HQ1100-1900 (Feminism), PN451-481 (Lit. Criticism: Women), and PS145-152 (American Lit.: Women Authors) call number ranges.
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
- American National Biography: full-text articles and biographies about deceased Americans
- Biography Resource Center/InfoTrac: extensive full-text, in-depth biographies
- Contemporary Literary Criticism/InfoTrac: critical essays about contemporary authors
- LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.
Internet Resources
Several Internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available on Web Resources page; follow link for Literature.
- Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/USA.html
alphabetical list of links to websites for American women writers and some works. - Lit Links
http://www.smpcollege.com/litlinks/home.htm
St. Martin's College site organized alphabetically by author within five genres - Literary Resources on the Web
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
online literary resources organized by category - Perspectives in American Literature
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML
a guide to literary criticism about American authors organized by time period