Aemilia Lanyer Includes biography, bibliography, e-text, listserv (Kari Boyd McBride)

Anne Bradstreet
Very useful resources and links (Jone Johnson Lewis)

Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
(Representative Poetry Online)

Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
resource for poetry, biography and sources (Ellen Moody)

Anthologies of women’s writing
(Sunshine for women)

The Aphra Behn Page
Includes biographical material, links, sections on Behn and racism and on women in Restoration theatre (Ruth Nestvold)

The Aphra Behn Society
Website for this society, which is ‘dedicated to encouraging and advancing research that focuses on issues of gender and/or women’s role in the arts of early modern culture, circa 1660-1800′; links and syllabi as well as society information and recent newsletters

Aristotle’s Masterpiece
digitised version of the (in)famous manual of sex and pregnancy, first published c.1680 (Ex-Classics)

The Autobiography of Anne Murray, Lady Halkett: An e-text of the 1875 edition
a work in progress (about halfway through at May ‘06), with additional links (Ellen Moody)

Bibliography of Tudor-Stuart Women’s History
(Diana Laulainen)

The Bluestocking Archive
Texts by and relating to ‘the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle and the second generation Blues, including predecessor texts, and literature of sensibility as it is derived from the Bluestockings’ concerns with aesthetics, and with women’s aesthetic achievements’ (Elizabeth Fay)

British Women Romantic Poets
An “online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women” written between 1789 and 1832 (University of California Davis)

British Women’s Novels: a reading list, 1775-1818
Selective annotated bibliography, with additional web links (Catherine Decker)
(Unavailable, November 2005)

Catherine de Medici Queen of France
List of online resources (Robert Wilde)

Catherine d’Medici, Queen of France
Short biography and bibliography (Prof Pavlac’s Women’s History Resources)

Corvey CW3 Journal
Online journal for Romantic-era women’s writing

Crime, gender and social order in early modern England
Book extract: chapter from Garthine Walker’s monograph (Cambridge, 2003)

The Diary of Martha Ballard
At the heart of this sophisticated site is the diary (of over 1400 pages) kept by Martha Ballard, a late-eighteenth-century midwife and healer in Massachusetts. There is also an archive of primary sources used in the project, which can be browsed in a variety of ways including under topic headings (such as domestic life; religion; law and justice; midwifery and birth). For teachers, also offers practice in reading handwriting, guided exercises in such crucial historical skills as the interpretation of conflicting evidence, and an excellent section on the use of primary sources (Film Study Center, Harvard University)

Dress and fashions in early modern Europe
List of diverse online resources related to clothing, fashion, etc (Early Modern Resources)

The duello in Elizabethan England
A lively (if not very scholarly) essay about the culture of the duel in early modern England (Maelgwyn Dda)

Early Modern French Women Writers
Collection of texts by French women writers (University of Minnesota)

Early Modern Women Online
A bibliography of web resources, mainly for sites relating to women writers and artists (University of Maryland Libraries)

Educated Women, Educating Women: women, writing and learning 1400-1650
Reading list and some web resources for a course syllabus (Sharon Michalove)

The Education of Upper-Class Women
Bibliography (Sharon Michalove)

Eighteenth-century Women Writers, Readers and Publishers
Bibliography (James E May)

Elizabeth
Exhibition to mark 400th anniversary of Elizabeth I’s death, includes sections on her youth, the court, representations, threats to the crown, the final years (National Maritime Museum)

Elizabeth Blackwell and her ‘Curious Herbal’
webpage showcasing Elizabeth Blackwell’s Curious Herbal containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, published in 1737 (British Library)

Autobiography of Elizabeth Isham
annotated transcription of the spiritual autobiography of Elizabeth Isham (c.1640), which gives a rare and intimate look into the life of an early seventeenth-century unmarried gentlewoman (Isaac Stephens)

Emory Women Writers’ Resource Project
A collection of texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries (Emory University

Everything Early Modern Women
weblog with announcements of conferences and other news of interest to those studying early modern women