This page is a brief guide to reference sources for women & gender studies held by the British Library. It is a select list only, concentrating on bibliographies, biographies, and other finding aids. Much relevant material will also be found in our online catalogues. Items marked by an asterisk are not on open access.
Literature | |
| *Adburgham, Alison. Women in print, writing women and women's magazines from the Restoration to the accession of Victoria. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1972. | |
X981/3150 | |
| *Abraham, Taisha. (ed.) Feminist theory and modern drama. Delhi: Pencraft International, 1998. | |
YA. 1998. a. 11470 | |
| Adelaide, Debra. Bibliography of Australian women's literature 1795-1990, a listing of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction published in monograph form arranged alphabetically by author. Port Melbourne: Thorpe in association with National Centre for Australian Studies, 1991. | |
HLR820.99287 | |
| *Aercke, Kristian. Women writing in Dutch. New York, London: Garland Publishing,1994 | |
YC. 1994.a.2144 | |
| Alston, R.C. (compiler). A checklist of women writers, 1880-1900, fiction, verse, drama, includes index. London: British Library,1990. | |
HLR820.99287 | |
| *Armstrong, Isobel & Virginia Blain. (eds.) Women's poetry in the enlightenment, the making of a canon, 1730-1820. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999 | |
YC. 2000.a.5431 | |
| Backscheider, Paula R. (ed.) An annotated bibliography of the twentieth-century critical studies of woman and literature, 1660-1800, includes index. New York; London: Garland, 1977. | |
HLR809.89287 | |
| *Beach, Cecilia. (compiler). French women playwrights of the twentieth century, a checklist. This checklist provides a comprehensive list of works by French women playwrights, which were published and/or performed in France between 1900 and 1990. Westport, Conn.; London,: Greenwood, 1996. | |
YC.1996.b.5201 | |
| Bell, Maureen [et al.]. A biographical dictionary of English women writers 1580-1720 London: Harvester, 1990. | |
HLR820.99287 | |
| *Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank, Paris 1900-1940. London: Virago, 1987, c1986 | |
YH.1987.a.842 | |
| Berney, Kate. (ed.) Contemporary women dramatists, introduction by Lizbeth Goodman, associate editor N.G.Templeton. London : St James, 1994. | |
HLR822.914 | |
| *Berry, Philippa. Shakespeare's feminine endings: disfiguring death in the tragedies. London: Routledge,1999 | |
YC.1999.a.5262 m00/26387 DSC | |
| *Black, Helen C. Notable women authors of the day, biographical sketches etc. Glasgow: D.Bryce & Son, Glasgow, 1893 | |
10856.f.7 | |
| *Blain, Virginia; Clements, Patricia; Grundy, Isobel. (eds.) The feminist companion to literature in English, women writers from the middle ages to the present. London: Batsford,1990. | |
YH. 1990.b.519 | |
| Bollmann, Stafan. Women who write. London: Merrell, 2007 | |
| YC.2008.b.377 | |
| Borchers, Elisabeth. (ed.) Gedichte beruhmter frauen, von Hildegard von Bingen bis Ingeborg Bachmann. Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1996. | |
HLR831.008 | |
| *Brenner, Athalya. (ed.) A feminist companion to wisdom literature. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press,1996 | |
YC.1996.a.1478 | |
| Buck, Claire. (ed.) Women's literature, A-Z. London: Bloomsbury, 1994. | |
HLR809.89287 | |
| *Butler, Deborah A. American women writers on Vietnam, unheard voices, a select annotated bibliography. New York, London: Garland, 1990 | |
YC.1991.a.5612 | |
| *Button, Marilyn Demarest, Reed, Toni. The foreign woman in British literature, exotics, aliens, and outsiders. (Contributions in women's studies, number 171) Wesport, Conn. London: Greenwood Press, 1999 | |
YC. 2000.a.1700 | |
| *Caine, William E. Making feminist history, the literary scholarship of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. New York, London: Garland, 1994 | |
YC.1994.a.1001 | |
| *Case, Alison A. Plotting women, gender and narration in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century British novel. Charlottesville, London: University Press of Virginia, 1999 | |
YC.2000.a.1077 | |
| *Chapman, D.H. (compiler). Index to poetry by black American women, one hundred twenty books by individual women poets are indexed, as are eighty-three anthologies of black American poetry. New York, London: Greenwood, 1986. | |
2725.d.103 | |
| *Christian, Barbara. Black feminist criticism, perspectives on black women writers. New York: Pergamon Press, 1987 | |
YC.1989.a.8120 | |
| *Clay, Catherine. British Women Writers 1914-1945, professional work and friendship. U.K Lancaster University: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2006 | |
| m08/29202 DSC | |
| *Curti, Lidia. Female stories, female bodies, narrative, identity and representation. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998. | |
C.1998.a.1263. | |
Davidson, Cathy N. & Linda Wagner-Martin (editors in chief). The Oxford companion to women's writing in the United States. | |
HLR810.99287 | |
| *Davies, Catherine. Contemporary feminist fiction in Spain, the work of Montserrat Roig and Rosa Montero. Oxford: Berg, 1994 | |
YC.1995.a.4940 | |
| *Davies, Catherine. Women writers in twentieth-century Spain and Spanish America. Lewiston, N.Y., Lampeter: E. Mellen Press, 1993 | |
YC.1993.b.7985 | |
| *Davis, Cynthia, Kathryn West. Women writers in the United States: a timeline of literary, cultural and social history. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 | |
YC.1996.b.8914 | |
| Dowson, J., Entwistle, A. A history of twentieth-century British women's poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 | |
HLR821.91 | |
| * The early modern Englishwoman: a facsimile library of essential works. Pt.1, printed writings, 1500-1640. Vol. 10, Mary Wroth. General editors, Betty S. Travitsky and Patrick Cullen. Aldershot: Scholar, c1996 (Facsimile of ed. published London: John Marriott and John Grismond, 1621 | |
YC.1996.b.6869 | |
| *Evans, Ruth, Johnson Lesley. Feminist readings in middle English literature, the wife of Bath and all her sect. London: Routledge, 1994 | |
YC. 1994.a.3516 | |
| *Female playwrights of the Restoration, five comedies. Edited by Paddy Lyons and Fidelis Morgan. London:, 1991 | |
YC.1992.a.170 | |
| *The female wits, women playwrights on the London stage 1660-1720, selected by Fidelis Morgan. London: Virago, 1981 | |
X.950/4687 | |
| *Ferguson, Margaret. Dido's daughters, literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France. London: University of Chicago Press, 2003 | |
m03/37233 DSC | |
| *Fish, Cheryl. Black and white women's travel narratives: antebellum explorations. Gainesville, Fla.; London: Eurospan, 2004 | |
m05/10977 DSC | |
| *Gilbert, Sandra M.; Gubar, Susan. Shakespeare's sisters, feminist essays on women poets. Bloomington, London: Indiana University Press, 1979 | |
X.918/21927 | |
| *Goldman, Dorothy. Women writers and the Great War. New York, Twayne; London: Prentice Hall International, 1995 | |
YC.1996.b.230 | |
| *Golubov, Nattie, Liliana. British women writers and the public sphere between the wars. Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison and Rebecca West. Thesis (Ph.D.) London: University of London, 2002 | |
| DX223761 | |
| *Greer, Germaine, (et al). Kissing the Rod, an anthology of seventeenth century women's verse. London: Virago, 1988 | |
YH.1988.b.663 88/21658 DSC | |
| *Greer, Germaine. The madwoman's underclothes, essays and occasional writings 1968-85. London: Picador, Pan, 1986 | |
86/24655 DSC | |
| *Greer, Germaine. Slip-shod sibyls, recognition, rejection and the woman poet. London: Viking,1995 | |
| YC.1995.b.6810 95/35503 DSC | |
| *Grimstone, Mary Leman. Woman's love, the first novel written in Australia by a woman. Grimstone spent the years 1826-1829 in Van Diemen's land. London: Saunders and Otley,1832 | |
N.964 | |
| *Gutierrez, Nancy A. Shall she famish then? female food refusal in early modern England Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003 | |
YC.2005.a.3192 | |
| *Hartley, Jenny. Millions like us:British women's fiction of the Second World War. London: Virago, 1997 | |
| YC.2001.a.12109 98/18890 DSC | |
| *Heilmann, Ann. New woman fiction, women writing first-wave feminism. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000 | |
YC.2001.a.13607 | |
| *Horwitz, Barbara J. British women writers, 1700-1850: an annotated bibliography of their works and works about them. Lanthan,Md.; Scarecrow Press, 1997 | |
2725.e.3764 | |
| Hurst, Isobel. Victorian women writers and the classics: the feminine of Homer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006 | |
| YC.2006.a.21499 m06/38743 DSC | |
| Jackson, James Robert de Jager. Romantic poetry by women, a bibliography, 1770-1835. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. | |
HLR821.6 | |
| *Joannou, Maroula. Women writers of the 1930's: gender, politics and history. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999 | |
| YC.2000.a.4540 99/21957 DSC | |
| *Jones, Kathleen. A passionate sisterhood, the sisters, wives and daughters of the Lake poets. London: Virago, 1998 | |
YC.1998.a.1997 | |
| *Jordan, Casper LeRoy. (compiler). A bibliographical guide to African -American women writers. It documents material obtained from unindexed periodicals as well as bibliographies, books and indexes. Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood, 1993. | |
2725.g.1956 | |
| *Jump, Harriet Devine. (ed.) Women's writing of the romantic period 1789-1836, an anthology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997 | |
YC.1997.b.6472 | |
| *Katrak, Ketu H. Politics of the female body: Postcolonial women writers of the Third World Piscataway, N.J. ; London: Rutgers University Press , 2006 | |
m06/21025 DSC | |
| *Keane, Angela. Women writers and the English nation in the 1790s, romantic belongings. | |
| Cambridge: Cambridge Press, 2001. | |
YC.2001.a.14592 3015.99588.44 DSC | |
| *Kingsbury, Diana B. I wish I were a wolf, the new voice in Chinese women's literature. Interviews, a play and short stories. Beijing: New World Press, 1994 | |
YA.1999.a.12922 | |
| *Knight, Brenda. Women of the beat generation, the writers, artists, and muses at the heart of the revolution. Berkeley, California: Conari Press, 1996 | |
YA.1997.a.4031 | |
| *Kroha, Lucienne. The woman writer in late-nineteenth-century Italy, gender and the formation of library identity. Lewiston, Lampter: E. Mellen, 1992 | |
YC.1993.b.7323 | |
| *Looser, Devoney. British women writers and the writing of history, 1670-1820. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 | |
m00/44616 DSC | |
| *Macnicol, Margaret. (ed.) Poems by Indian women, selected and rendered by various translators. Calcutta: 1923 | |
OIH808.81 ORW.1986.a.3695 | |
| *Mann, Jill. Feminizing Chaucer, includes bibliographical references and index. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2002 | |
YC.2002. a.10390 | |
| *Marcus, Jane.(ed.) New feminist essays on Virginia Woolf London: Macmillan, 1981 (1985 [printing] ) | |
YC.1986.a.2011 | |
| *Marek, Jayne E. Women editing modernism: 'little' magazines and literary history. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995 | |
YA.1997.a.13656 | |
| *Marsh-Lockett, Carol P. Black women playwrights, visions on the American stage. New York, London: Garland Pub., 1999 | |
YC.1999.a.1363 | |
| *Marshall, Alice Kahler. Pen names of women writers from 1600 to the present. Camp Hill, PA. A.K.Marshall, 1985, 1986 | |
YA.2002.a.35570 | |
| *McDowell, Paula. The women of Grub street, press, politics, and gender in the London literary marketplace, 1678-1730. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998 | |
YC.1999.a.695 | |
| *Moskal, Jeanne, Shannon R.Wooden.(eds.) Teaching British women writers, 1750-1900 New York; Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005 | |
m05/34959 DSC | |
| *Nayak, P.M. & Swain. Feminism and Indian English fiction. Bareilly: Prakash book depot, 1996 | |
YA.1998.a.7876 | |
| *Nichols,Victoria; Thompson, Susan. Silk stalkings, more women write of murder. Lanham, Md., London: Scarecrow,1998. | |
YC.1998.a.2855 | |
| * Osho. The book of woman. New Delhi : Penguin Books India, 2002 | |
YD. 2006.a.9740 | |
| *Ouditt, Sharon. Fighting forces, writing women, identity and ideology in the first world war. London: Routledge,1994 | |
YC. 1994.a.432 | |
| *Ostovich, Helen , Sauer, Elizabeth. Reading early modern women, an anthology of texts in manuscript and print, 1550-1700. London: Routledge, 2003 | |
m04/14557 DSC | |
| *Roberts, Nora Ruth. Three radical womem writers, class and gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen and Josephine Herbst New York, London: Garland Publishing, 1996 | |
| YC.1996.A.2780 | |
| *Pandey, Birendra. Indian women novelists in English. New Delhi: Sarup, 2001 | |
YA.2002.a.4767 | |
| Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth.(compiler). Caribbean women novelists, an annotated critical bibliography, includes indexes. Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood, 1993. | |
HLR809.89287 | |
| Partnow, Elaine. The quotable woman: from Eve to 1799 New York; Bicester: Facts on File, c1985,(1986 [printing] | |
HLR080 YC.1987.b.4106 YK.1987.b.6593 | |
| Partnow, Elaine. The quotable woman: the first 5,000 years. New York: Facts on File, c2001 | |
HLR080 | |
| *Peabody, Richard. A different beat, writings by women of the beat generation. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997 | |
YK.1998.a.3783 | |
| *Perkins, Kathy A. Black female playwrights, an anthology of plays before 1950. Bloomington: Indiana University: 1989 | |
YC.1993.b.613 | |
| *Peterson, Linda H. Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography, the poetics and politics of life writing. Charlottesville, Va., London: University Press of Virginia, 1999 | |
YC.2000.a.1202 | |
| *Philips, Deborah Women's fiction, 1945-2005: writing romance London: Continuum, 2006 | |
m06/37712 DSC | |
| *Rees-Jones, Deryn. Consorting with angels, essays on modern women poets. Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2005 | |
YC. 2006.a.5706 | |
| *Rees-Jones, Deryn. Modern women poets Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2005 | |
| YC.2008.a.4069 | |
| *Roy, Anuradha. Patterns of feminist consciousness in Indian women writers, a study of Anita Desai's, Cry, the peacock, Nayantara Sahgal's, Storm in Chandigarth, Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a broken column, Rama Mehta's, Inside the Haveli, Shashi Deshpande's, That long silence. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1999 | |
YA.a.12643 | |
| *Sage, Lorna. The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English, advisory editors, Germaine Greer and Elaine Showalter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. | |
HLR820.99287 YC.1999.b.7541 | |
| Schlueter, Paul; Schlueter, June. (eds.) An encyclopedia of British women writers, includes bibliography & index. London: St. James, 1990. | |
HLR820.99287 | |
| *Sen, Indrani. Woman and empire, representations in the writings of British India, 1858-1900 Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2002 | |
YA.2002.a.37913 | |
| Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford guide to British women writers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. | |
HLR820.99287 | |
| Shelton, Pamela L. Contemporary women poets. Detroit, London: St James, 1998 | |
HLR821.914 | |
| *Short fiction by Saudi Arabian women writers. Compiled and translated by Aman Mahmoud Attich. (Special volume of Literature East & West) Texas: Department of Middle Eastern Languages and cultures, 1999 | |
AC.2683/15 | |
| *Showalter, Elaine. Daughters of decadence: Women writers of the fin de siècle; contains short stories by Kate Chopin, Victoria Cross, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Olive Schreiner, Edith Wharton and others. London: Virago, 1993 | |
| H.93/2602 | |
| *Smith, Hilda L. & Susan Cardinale. (compilers). Women and the Literature of the seventeenth century, an annotated bibliography based on Wing's short-title Catalogue, New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. | |
YA. 1994.b.3928 | |
| *Smith, Hilda L.(et al.) Women's political writings, 1610-1725. 4 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007 | |
YC.2007.a.16956 vol.1 YC.2007.a.16958 vol.2 YC.2007.a.16955 vol.3 YC.2007.a.16957 vol.4 | |
| *Soule, George. Four British women novelists: Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Pym: an annotated and critical secondary bibliography. Lanham, Md; London: Scarecrow Press, 1998 | |
2725.e.3796 | |
| *Spender, Dale. Mothers of the novel, 100 good women writers before Jane Austen. London: Pandora,1986 | |
YC.1986.a.6777 | |
| Spongberg, Mary (et al.) Companion to women's historical writing. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 | |
HLR828.08 | |
| *Srivastava, Sharad. The new woman in Indian English fiction, a study of Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Namita Gokhale & Shobba De. New Delhi : Creative Books, 1996 | |
YA.1999.a.12464 | |
| *Staley, Thomas F. Twentieth-century women novelists. London: Macmillan,1982 | |
X.950/19864 | |
| *Staves, Susan. A literary history of women's writing in Britain, 1660-1789. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 | |
YC.2006.a.21229 | |
| Stephens, Sonya. A history of women's writing in France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 | |
HLR840.9 | |
| *Stevenson, Jane & Peter Davidson. Early modern women poets, (1520-1700) : an anthology Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 | |
YC.2001.a.6342 | |
| *Taylor, Barbara. Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 | |
YC.2003.a.10760 | |
| Todd, Janet. (ed.) British women writers, a critical reference guide, includes bibliographies & index. New York, Continum, 1989. | |
HLR820.99287 | |
| *Todd, Janet. (ed.) Dictionary of British women writers. London: Routledge, 1991. | |
YC.1991.a.5172 | |
| *Tomei, Christine D. Russian women writers. (Women writers of the world v.3) Translated from the Russian. New York, London: Garland, 1999 | |
YC.1999.b.1333 | |
| *Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Woman, native, other, writing postcoloniality and feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989 | |
YC.1993.b.637 | |
| *Trodd, Anthea. Women's writing in English: Britain 1900-1945. London, New York: Longman, 1998 | |
YC.1998.a.3253 | |
| *Tylee, Claire M. The great war and women's consciousness, images of militarism and feminism in women's writings, 1914-64. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990 | |
YC.1990.a.1818 | |
| *Varieties of women's sensation fiction: Vol. 3, Gothic sensationalism: Ellen Wood, St Eve's (1866) 1855-1890. edited by Lyn Pykett. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2004 | |
YC.2004.a.8854 | |
| *Walker, Kim. Women writers of the English Renaissance. New York; London: Prentice Hall, 1996. | |
YA. 1996.a.19914 | |
| *Wilkinson, Brenda. African American women writers. New York; Chichester: Wiley, 2000 | |
YC. 2000.a.1862 | |
| *Winn. Colette H. Women writers in pre-revolutionary France, strategies of emancipation. New York, London: Garland Publications, 1997 | |
YC. 1998.a.76 | |
| *Women critics 1660-1820, an anthology. Edited by the Folga Collective on Early Women Critics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995 | |
YC.1997.b.5536 | |
| *Working-class and feminist literature in Britain and Ireland in the 20th century, proceedings of the 3rd conference in Berlin, 20 to 22 march 1989, organised by project group working on working-class literature in Britain and Ireland, English literature department, Humboldt University. Berlin: Humboldt-Universitat, 1990 | |
YC. 1994.a.13700 | |
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