Women Writers Online

Women Writers Online (WWO) is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible. The range of genres and topics covered makes it a truly remarkable resource for teaching and research, providing an unparalleled view of women’s literate culture in the early modern period.

WWO is available by subscription to institutions and individuals.

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Licenses and Trials

The Licenses and Trials directory contains everything you need to know about subscribing to WWO, including licenses, free trials, MARC records, title-level URLs, accessibility, and more.

Textbase Records and Metadata

Discover the texts and authors in Women Writers Online, find out what we’re working on, and download metadata records for the textbase.

Teaching and Learning

The Teaching and Learning directory is full of tools and resources specially aimed at teachers and students, including syllabi, suggested assignments, and starting points for research.

Women Writers in Context

Exhibits in Women Writers in Context create connections between works in the WWO textbase. These scholarly essays, explorations, and provocative starting points are all public resources.

Women Writers in Review

Women Writers in Review is our public collection of 18th- and 19th-century reviews and other texts which respond to the works of early women writers. Reviews range from 1770 to 1830, reflecting a changing transatlantic literary landscape.

WWP Lab

Explore the experimental side of the WWP textbase. Play with our newest visualization tools in the publicly-accessible WWP Lab, and form insights into WWO’s authors and their works!