{"id":1470,"date":"2021-02-23T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwp.northeastern.edu\/blog\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2021-02-23T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:54:09","slug":"wwo-free-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwp.northeastern.edu\/blog\/wwo-free-march-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Writers Online Is Free for the Month of March"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are delighted to announce that\u00a0Women Writers Online<\/a>\u00a0(WWO) will once again be free during the month of March in celebration of Women\u2019s History Month. The collection contains more than 420 texts written and translated by women, and published between 1526 and 1850.<\/p>\n

We also invite you to explore our other publications, which are always open access. These include\u00a0Women Writers in Review<\/a>\u00a0(WWiR), a collection of close to 700 reviews of and responses to works in WWO, and\u00a0Women Writers in Context<\/a>\u00a0(WWiC), a collection of essays exploring topics related to early women\u2019s writing.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t visited WWO before, there are multiple ways to discover new texts. For example, you can filter through texts based on genre and publication year or use the search bar to look for specific keywords. You can also browse themes and topics from\u00a0WWiR<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0WWiC<\/a>\u00a0because both collections link back to the texts in WWO.<\/p>\n

You can see our recently published texts\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and view help pages for WWO\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To provide one more way to help people get started with WWO, we\u2019ve included some of our favorite texts below.<\/p>\n

Memoirs<\/b><\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to read a memoir, there are quite a few in WWO, including several by and about women of color. Check out\u00a0A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee<\/i><\/a>, and the\u00a0Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Little Romance<\/b><\/p>\n

There are many romances in WWO, including Mary Wroth\u2019s\u00a0Urania<\/i><\/a>, which has adventure, betrayal, a lost princess, and pirates. If you enjoy reading about reformed rakes, moonlight seductions, and mistaken identities, we have\u00a0all<\/a>\u00a0three<\/a>\u00a0volumes<\/a>\u00a0of Eliza Haywood\u2019s\u00a0Love in Excess<\/i>. Or, for a bit of satire on romance, check out Sarah Green\u2019s\u00a0Romance Readers and Romance Writers<\/i><\/a>, whose author exclaims:<\/p>\n

Would that, like the monster Briareus, I could strike a hundred blows in the same instant, and that all the vampers of romance, who merit annihilation, were in my presence!\u2014they are the vermin of literature\u2014their spawn creep to our fire-sides, and cover our tables, our chairs, our sofas and our mantle-pieces; we find them in the bed-chambers of our daughters; nay, not unfrequently are they placed beneath their pillows, to occupy their minds at day-break, or to beguile a sleepless night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Talking Birds and Cherry Orchards<\/b><\/p>\n

We have several works of children\u2019s fiction, including Sarah Trimmer\u2019s\u00a0Fabulous Histories<\/i><\/a>, which has a family of talking robins, and Maria Edgeworth\u2019s\u00a0The Little Dog Trusty; the Orange Man; and the Cherry Orchard<\/i><\/a>, which teaches, among other lessons, that \u201cCunning people, though they think themselves very wise, are almost always very silly.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Cook\u2019s Guide<\/b><\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019d like to try a new recipe \u2014 if so, you should check out Hannah Woolley\u2019s\u00a0Cook\u2019s Guide<\/i><\/a>. Here\u2019s just one example of its delicious contents:<\/p>\n

To make little Apple pa\u017fties to fry. Take pared Apples and cut them into \u017fmall pieces to \u017ftew, \u017ftew them to papp with claret wine and \u017fpice, then put in a good piece of \u017fweet butter, cinnamon, ginger, ro\u017fe-water, \u017fugar and plumped currans; then put them into the puff-pa\u017fte and fry them, \u017fo \u017ferve them in with \u017fugar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Fall River Murder<\/b><\/p>\n

Looking for a bit of true crime? We have two texts on a local murder case: Mary Carr Clarke\u2019s play,\u00a0Sarah Maria Cornell, or the Fall River Murder<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and Catherine Read Arnold\u2019s history\u00a0Fall River: An Authentic Narrative<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Solving Relationship Problems with Cross-dressing<\/b><\/p>\n

Playwright Hannah Cowley answers the relationship questions you never knew you had \u2014 how to use cross-dressing to add a little spice to your life, how to manipulate your father into ordering you to marry the man of your dreams, how to get that man to want to marry you in the first place, and much more. Husband have a wandering eye? Victoria demonstrates how to dress like a man and seduce hubby\u2019s mistress in\u00a0A Bold Stroke for a Husband<\/i>.<\/a>\u00a0If he won\u2019t disguise himself as your dressmaker, it\u2019s not true love. Just ask Elizabeth from\u00a0Who\u2019s the Dupe?<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Science Fiction<\/b><\/p>\n

Margaret Cavendish\u2019s\u00a0The Blazing World<\/i><\/a>\u00a0is sometimes called the first science fiction novel; it describes a woman\u2019s journey, by way of the north pole, to a world with Fish-men, Bear-men, and Worm-men\u2014among quite a few others. We also have\u00a0many other works<\/a>\u00a0by Cavendish \u2014 including her plays, historical and scientific writings, and letters.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth I<\/b><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for something inspirational, we have several of Elizabeth I\u2019s speeches, including\u00a0two<\/a>\u00a0versions<\/a>\u00a0of the Tilbury Speech, which was featured in one of our favorite\u00a0Kate Beaton comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please feel free to suggest your own favorite texts in the comments \u2014 and we hope you enjoy the collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are delighted to announce that\u00a0Women Writers Online\u00a0(WWO) will once again be free during the month of March in celebration of Women\u2019s History Month. The collection contains more than 420 texts written and translated by women, and published between 1526 and 1850. We also invite you to explore our other publications, which are always open access. These include\u00a0Women Writers in Review\u00a0(WWiR), a collection of close to 700 reviews of and responses to works in WWO, and\u00a0Women Writers in Context\u00a0(WWiC), a…<\/p>\n

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