Women authors

New York Public Library - African-American woman writers of the 19th century 

UC Davis - British woman Romantic poets 1789 - 1832 

A Celebration of Women Writers - authors and books sorted alphabetically, by country, and by ethnicity 

Sheffield Hallam University - Corvey Women Writers on the Web - "...is 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."

Domestic Goddesses - "A moderated E-journal, devoted to women writers, beginning in the 19th century, who wrote domestic fiction." 

Women Writers: a Zine - Commentary on women writers from 1800 to the present, with extensive annotated links to other sites.

Women Writers

Stanford University - women in Latin-American literature sorted alphabetically by author

Extensive bibliography re women authors and texts

Distinguished Women of the Past

Toni Morrison

luminarium.org

Alice Walker

Texts

DeShazer, M.  (2000).  The Longman Anthology of Women's Literature.  Amazon.com product description: "Offering readers key women's writings from the eighth century to the present, this global and multicultural anthology includes selections written in English by women from Great Britain and the U.S. as well as Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Croatia, Ghana, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa. Organized thematically, the anthology emphasizes five important topics for women writers finding a voice, writing the body, rethinking the maternal, identity and difference, and resistance and transformation. Pivotal works of feminist theory by Woolf, Cixous, Showalter, hooks, Trinh, and others are also included. For those interested in women's literature."

Gilbert, M., & Gubar, S.  (Eds.).  (2007).  The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English.  (5th ed.).

Holdstein, D.  (1999).  The Prentice Hall Anthology of Women's Literature.  Amazon.com product description: "Focusing on 20th century works, this manageable, chronological anthology takes an objective approach to women's literature, letting readers experience each selection without any preconceptions or opening interpretations. Coverage spans from turn-of-the-century literature, through modernism and the pre-Second World War era, to post-war, contemporary literature and beyond, drawing selections from each major genre. For those interested in women's literature/women's studies; feminism in literature; contemporary literature; and comparative literature."

Lee, V.  (2005).  The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature.  Amazon.com product description: "For courses in Women and Literature and African-American Literature; as well as for courses in women's studies, cultural studies, and African-American studies. Message: This is the first comprehensive anthology of African American women's literature that covers all historical periods and all genres. Story: Encompassing Pulitzer Prize winners Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Rita Dove, national icons Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, and prominent cult figures Zora Neale Hurston and Octavia Butler, African American women's literature is the one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today."

Oxford University Press search: "Women's  literature - primary works"

Oxford University Press search: "Women's literature"

Google books search: "Women's literature"

The Brown University Women Writers Project - "...a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship."

A Celebration of Women Writers - authors and books sorted alphabetically, by country, and by ethnicity 

Extensive bibliography re women authors and texts

Google book: Dooling, A. & Torgeson, K.  (Eds.).  (1998).  Writing Women in Modern China: An Anthology of Women's Literature from the Early Twentieth Century. 

Google book: Kalisa, C.  (2009).  Violence in Francophone African & Caribbean Women's Literature  

Endicott College - international women's fiction, poetry, and drama sorted by country.