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Online Resources

• Society for the Study of American Women Writers
  Resources developed to broaden knowledge among the general public about American women writers.

• American Women's Dime Novels Project
  An introduction to the women's sensational dime novels which flourished in the 1870s through the 1920s.

Videos

• One Woman, One Vote (VHS)
  Documents the 70-year struggle for women's suffrage which culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. It illuminates the alliances, infighting, betrayals and defeats that paved the way for victory in the battle for women's right to vote. Historical footage is enhanced with vocal performances, and interviews with historians provide the viewer with both current and historical perspectives
  JK 1986 .O54 1995

Print Resources

History

• America's Women : Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
  Gail Collins : HQ1410 .C588 2003 ; General

• Family Life in 17th- and 18th-Century America
  James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo : HQ535 .V65 2006 ; General

• Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women
  Christine Fauré, editor ; translated by Richard Dubois : HQ1236.5.E85 E52 2003 ; General

Literature

• American Women Prose Writers : 1820-1870
  edited by Amy E. Hudock and Katharine Rodier : Reference

• American Women Writers : A Critical Reference Guide : From Colonial Times to the Present
  editor, Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf : PS147 .A42 2000 ; Reference

• American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920
  edited by Sharon M. Harris ; with the assistance of Heidi L. : PN451 .D5 v.221 2000 ; Reference

• A to Z of American Women Writers
  Carol Kort : PS147 .K67 2000 ; Reference

• American Women Prose Writers to 1820
  edited by Carla Mulford, with Angela Vietto and Amy E. Winan : PN451 .D5 v.200 1999 ; Reference

• Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers : A Bio-bibliography
  edited by Denise D. Knight ; Emmanuel S. Nelson, advisory ed : PS217.W64 N56 1997 ; Reference

• Women Writers in the United States : a Timeline of Literary, Cultural and Social History
  Cynthia J. Davis and Kathryn West : PS147 .D38 1996 ; Reference

• The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
  editors in chief, Cathy N. Davidson, Linda Wagner-Martin : PS147 .O94 1995 ; Reference

• A Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists
  Kathleen Wheeler : PR888.W6 W44 1997 ; Reference

• The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights
  edited by Brenda Murphy : PS338.W6 C36 1999 ; Reference

• Contemporary Women Poets
  editor, Pamela L. Shelton ; : PS151 .C67 1997 ; Reference

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