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The University of Pennsylvania's Digital Library Initiative provides IT support for this volunteer project, as part of its 'Online Books' work. The project also links to other digitised library sites such as Project Gutenberg. The contents can be browsed by an A-Z of the author's name or by the century a text was written, also by the author's country or ethnicity. Essays and contextual information are also available.

The British Women Romantic Poets Project is a digital initiative of the University of Carolina Library, Davis (USA). The resource consists of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period. These are fully searchable online.

A database containing material on 417 women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and 1,071 literary works published by them, based on the holdings of the Corvey Library. It includes biographies, bibliographies, contemporary reviews and memoirs, images, synopses and keyword descriptions of texts, as well as new criticism and contextual material. CW3 has been created by the Sheffield Hallam Corvey Project with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board of Great Britain. CW3 is also an on-line scholarly journal, with an editorial board of leading specialists.

This is a specialised bibliographic source about Native American Women playwrights providing a directory listing the work that is kept in the archives of the Miami University libraries. Information is provided about playwrights such as Annette Arkeketa, Shirley Cheechoo, Martha Kreipe De Montano, Vera Manuel, Janet Rogers and Elizabeth Theobald

The ARTFL French Women Writers Project is a searchable database containing works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century. Currently, the Women Writers Project is separate from the main ARTFL database; eventually the texts here will be merged with the ARTFL database. This merge will more than double the holdings of texts by French women writers in ARTFL, adding more than 100 texts written by women both well known and non-canonical. After the merge, we will also change the search mechanisms of the ARTFL database so that users can search the database with gender as a criterion.

British Women Playwrights around 1800 is a website maintained by the University of Montreal. It includes full texts for a selection of plays not readily available. Supporting the plays are a number of resources freely available on the site including chronologies, essays, bibliographies, indexes and teaching resources.

This project, hosted by Indiana University, USA, seeks to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. The works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Writers represented include Josephine Butler and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

a project of The Public Media Foundation, dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast. This site provides classroom resources for teaching the rich tradition of American literature by women. The Scribbling Women project provides an opportunity for teachers, students, library patrons, visually impaired listeners, and a general audience to learn about and enjoy an often neglected part of our cultural heritage. By providing highly produced thirty-minute dramatizations of short stories by these writers, together with related curriculum and lesson plans, the site offers teachers the opportunity to include both the listening experience and a discussion of the story and dramatization within a standard class period.

Portale sulla letteratura femminile romantica a cura di Adriana Craciun, Department of English University of California, Riverside

Video interviews with 50 Jewish women who made an impact on life in the UK. There were a range of interviewees including theatre related interviews Janet Suzman, Pamela Howard, Abigail Morris, Miriam Karlin, Maureen Lipman, Susannah Kraft, Julia Pascal. Topics included identity, feminism, relationship with mother, relationship to Great Britain, exile, holocaust, ambition.The interviews were carried out by Pascal Theatre Company in association with the London Jewish Cultural Centre