Biography Research: Some Famous Women

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

U of Virginia Library Scholar's Lab. This bibliography lists all books published in English between 1830 and 1950 that present three or more women's biographies in some narrative detail, as well as many before and after these dates: approximately 1200 items.

Feminist Majority Foundation. "Instead of what the media and many scholars think women have been doing, find out what women have really been doing for the past four decades: read The Feminist Chronicles. Expanding outward from NOW, the largest feminist organization in the world, this provides a breadth, depth, and diversity that should be on every historian's desk, and every bedside table for a nightly dose of, 'I didn't know that!'"--Gloria Steinem, Noted Feminist and Author

Global Fund for Women

U.S.

Global Oneness Project. Films, Photo Essays.

Indiana University. Primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more. VWWP contains scores of authors, both prolific and rare.

George Mason University

The main purposes of this virtual library are to list women's history institutions and organizations, locate archival and library collections, and provide links to Internet resources on women's history. In addition, also included are a list of women's studies journals and a few comprehensive link collections useful as a starting point for searching the Internet for women's studies in general.