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Montana State University provide this annotated online full-text of Isabella Whitney's verse miscellany, 'A Sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Posy Containing a Hundred and Ten Philosophical Flowers' (1573) compiled by a large team of editorial staff. Whitney's miscellany is regarded as the first publication of secular verse by a women in Renaissance England.

The Library's greatest strength is in its materials focusing on the lives and works of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including original letters and manuscripts, books from the poets' library, all of the first and many successive editions of their poetry, secondary works and criticisms, their poetry set to music, portraits, and memorabilia too numerous to list. The Armstrong Browning Library has become the world's largest collection of materials related to the Brownings.

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

Having most relevance for research in Archaeology, History, Politics and Travel, the books and papers of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) were given to Newcastle University Library by Gertrude's half-sister, Lady Richmond, although part of the Doughty-Wylie correspondence came from St. Anthony's College, Oxford.

This website from the University of Virginia presents a vast multimedia archive of primary material, 1830 to 1930, organized around Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal work. Educators should preview the material, particularly the various representations of race and slavery in the archive, to determine what is appropriate for use in their own classroom discussion.

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

The Women's Library collections document all aspects of women's lives, with a particular emphasis on the lives of women in the UK and the great political, economic and social changes of the past 150 years.The print collections include over 60,000 books and pamphlets and 3,000 periodical titles. Search for print materials on the main LSE Library catalogue. The archive and museum collections include over 500 archives and 5000 museum objects. Museum objects include photographs, postcards, posters, badges, banners, textiles and ceramics. Search for archives and museum objects on The Women's Library @ LSE archives and museum catalogue.