|
|
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LIBRARY / schoenberg center for electronic text & image
women's studies
|
In the 1940s, when it first began actively to collect modern
manuscripts, the University of Pennsylvania Library focussed on the papers
of twentieth-century writers such as Theodore Dreiser, Van Wyck Brooks,
Waldo Frank, James T. Farrell, among others. No concerted effort was made
to represent authors of color or female writers. Over time, however, a
diversity of archival material has found its way into the collections of
the Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, some of which illuminates
the private and professional lives of women, particularly in the United
States and England in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In an
effort to make these resources more widely available, we have begun a
project to locate, catalog, and scan diaries, essays, and fiction written
by women. To this initial list of diarists and one novelist and essayist,
we intend to add related holdings as they are identified and staff is able
to scan them. We welcome comments and suggestions. Please direct
inquires to Nancy Shawcross, Curator of Manuscripts, e-mail address shawcros@pobox.upenn.edu.
Manuscript Diaries
Diary of Susan
Sherman of Brookfield, Connecticut.
(Available is a facsimile of her diary dating 1850-1851.)
Diary of Elizabeth
Cowperthwaite of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(Available is a facsimile of her diary dating 1857-1858.)
Diaries of Fanny
Ruschenberger of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(Available are facsimiles of her six diaries dating 1858-1881.)
Diary of Margaret T.
Spaulding of Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York.
(Available is a facsimile of her diary dating 1870-1874.)
Diary of Margaret A. Eadie of
Flushing, New York.
(Available is a facsimile of her diary dating 1901-1909.)
Diaries of Grace Gilchrist Frend
of Hampstead, England.
(Available are facsimiles of her four diaries dating from 1907-1941.)
Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) by May Sinclair
Facsimiles of the first published edition, the author's workbook for and holograph of this text as well as an electronic version.
Manuscript Cookbooks
Manuscript Cookbook of D.
Petre.
(Available is
a facsimile of her recipe and medicinal cookbook from 1705.)
Other Women's Studies Sites
|
|
