Primary Sources: American Women: Literature

"The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing."

"... is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A 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 to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader."

A collection of writings on a variety of topics, genres, and formats including novels, poetry, diaries, essays, etc.
These items are provided full-text through the Hathi Digital Library.

"Presents a poem written by early American poet Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672), a resident of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to her husband, Simon Bradstreet."

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