Women
Economics
- Victorian Women - Social and Economic Status: Class and Occupation (Victorian Web)
- Winning Equal Pay: The Value of Women's Work - "Images & Documents section" includes primary material from as early as 1832 (Trades Union Congress Collection, London Metropolitan University Library)
- Historical Introduction to the Campaign for Equal Pay by Mary Davis (Trades Union Congress Collection, London Metropolitan University Library)
- Match Girls' Strike of 1888 - overview, archival photographs, and primary documents. (Trades Union Congress Collection, London Metropolitan University Library)
- Women Working, 1800-1930 - digital archive of photographs and documents, with resources and subject guides for educators (Harvard University Library)
Literature
General
- Victorian Authors: Female - (Victorian Web)
- Victorian Literature by Women: An Overview (Victorian Web)
- Victorian Women Writers Project - ebooks and texts of 19th Century women writers (Indiana University)
- 19th Century U.S. Women's Writings - (Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA)
- Women Writers 1800-1899 - a collection of electronic texts listed alphabetically by author (Emory Women Writers Resource Project)
- Gender in 19th Century Literature: A Bibliography (1996) (Victorian Web)
- Women in the Literary Marketplace 1800-1900 - overviews and primary materials (Cornell University Library)
- British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 - electronic texts (Univ. of California Davis General Library)
- British Women Playwrights around 1800 - electronic texts, essays, and a timeline of plays published by women from 1770-1854 (University of Montreal)
- The Orlando Project - A History of Women's Writing in the British Isles - timelines, histories, and original texts (University of Alberta)
- Society for the Study of American Women Writers - includes modest collection of etexts
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - overview, electronic texts, and biographies (New York Public Library Digital Library Collections)
- 19th Century Women Writers - alphabetical listing with hyperlinks to etexts and biographical information (University of Pennsylvania Digital Library Project)
Science & Medicine
- Science, Technology, and Gender Matters (Victorian Web)
- Women Physicians 1850s-1970s digital archive of documents and photographs searchable by date and type (Drexel University)
Social and Political History
General
- Victorian Women - Social and Political Contexts (Victorian Web)
- Victorian Women - Social History (Victorian Web)
- British History Online - 19th Century - digital library of primary documents including maps, clerical records, Survey of London, and other civic records. These records (in total, or a particular record of your choice) can be searched using keywords such as women, woman, female, mother, etc. (Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust)
- Education for Women: 1850-1901 - online exhibition (Women at Queen Mary Online, University of London)
- Women as Warriors in the 19th Century (Lothene Experimental Archaeology - a Scottish history research and re-enactment organization)
- The Woman's Building at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893 - photographs and documents including the talks given as part of the Women's Congress, and and the complete collection of essays edited by Ida B. Wells The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition (University of Pennsylvania Digital Library Project)
- The Woman Question - overview of the suffrage issue and overall context of women's experiences in Victorian England (Norton Anthology of English Literature)
- The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, 1852-1861 - Early writers of these 19th Century leaders of the women's rights movement in the U.S. (University of South Carolina)
- The Susan B. Anthony House
- Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 - timeline, images, and primary documents (Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress)
- The National Women's History Project - U.S. organization and web site to promote the study of women's history
- Swedish Women's Struggle for Suffrage (1884-1919) - includes overviews, photographs, and primary materials (in Swedish) - (Landsföreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt/The National Association for Women's Franchise)
Visual Arts
- Gender, Sexuality, and the Visual Arts in the Age of Victoria (Victorian Web)
- Women as Subjects in Victorian Art (Victorian Web)
- 19th Century Women Artists - timeline of artists in order of birth with links to biography and images (ArtCyclopedia)
Other Topics
- Victorian Women and Religion (Victorian Web)
- Ladies in the Wheatstone Ledgers: the Gendered Concertina in Victorian England, 1835-1870 by Allan W. Atlas - a study and listing of the women who are listed as purchasing Concertinas in nine business ledgers kept by a prestigious manufacturer of concertinas. Includes a discussion of Victorian notions of which instruments were appropriate for women to play and a description of the characteristics of the Concertina and the music written for the instrument. (Royal Music Association Research Chronicle)
- Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) - diaries, letters, and photographs from 1874 to 1926 of this adventurous Oxford graduate who helped create the modern state of Iraq and established the Iraq museum in Bagdad. Links to each type of document provided in small letters at bottom of the main page. (University of Newcastle on Tyne Library)
- Cherchez la femme - digitized collection of Austrian diaries, letters, and other documents by and about women before 1918. Includes significant number of documents from the 19th Century. (German/Deutsch) (Austrian National Library)
- Yorkshire Women's Lives Online, 1100 to the present - includes online exhibitions on the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum (1818-1902) and the Bronte sisters (1840-1890) - (project of the West Yorkshire Archive Service)
- In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World - a book by Elizabeth Bisland (1861-1929) published in 1891 (University of Pennsylvania Digital Library Project)
- Girlgenius - steampunk comic featuring the inimitable Girl Genius
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