Overview

Devoted exclusively to women writers from the English-speaking world, this book presents undergraduate students with an array of important resources necessary for 21st-century literary research. Acclaimed experts Katharine A. Dean, Miriam Conteh-Morgan, and James K. Bracken carefully select the most authoritative, informative, and useful Web sites and print resources for today's college and university students. Represented are more than 180 women writers, from the medieval to the contemporary period, whose works are featured in widely used literature anthologies. The chronological arrangement parallels that of popular anthologies and most course approaches. For each author, you will find concise lists of the best Web sites as well as printed sources such as biographies and criticisms, dictionaries and handbooks, indexes and concordances, journals, and bibliographies.

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?A useful guide to doing research on 180 writers from Abigail Adams to Anzia Yezierska.?-Booklist Reference Books in brief ?Integration of electronic and print resources in a single guide makes this a useful starting point for the study of women writers. Recommended. All collections.?-Choice ?The collaborative effort of Katharine A. Dean, Miriam Conteh -Morgan, and James K. Bracken, The Undergraduate's Companion to Women Writers and Their Web Sites is an authoritative, informative, useful and ""user friendly"" guide to web sites devoted to the lieves and works of women writers...The Undergraduate's Companion is an especially recommended addition to Women's Studies and Literary Studies academic reference resource collections.?-Library Bookwatch/Midwest Book Review ?The work is a highly useful starting point for undergraduates; it is concise, and easy to use overall, leading students to a broad variety of print, electronic, and Internet resources, and and encouraging them to explore a multiplicity of sources.?-Collection Management ""A useful guide to doing research on 180 writers from Abigail Adams to Anzia Yezierska.""-Booklist Reference Books in brief ""Integration of electronic and print resources in a single guide makes this a useful starting point for the study of women writers. Recommended. All collections.""-Choice ""The work is a highly useful starting point for undergraduates; it is concise, and easy to use overall, leading students to a broad variety of print, electronic, and Internet resources, and and encouraging them to explore a multiplicity of sources.""-Collection Management ""The collaborative effort of Katharine A. Dean, Miriam Conteh -Morgan, and James K. Bracken, The Undergraduate's Companion to Women Writers and Their Web Sites is an authoritative, informative, useful and ""user friendly"" guide to web sites devoted to the lieves and works of women writers...The Undergraduate's Companion is an especially recommended addition to Women's Studies and Literary Studies academic reference resource collections.""-Library Bookwatch/Midwest Book Review

?The collaborative effort of Katharine A. Dean, Miriam Conteh -Morgan, and James K. Bracken, The Undergraduate's Companion to Women Writers and Their Web Sites is an authoritative, informative, useful and user friendly guide to web sites devoted to the lieves and works of women writers...The Undergraduate's Companion is an especially recommended addition to Women's Studies and Literary Studies academic reference resource collections.?-Library Bookwatch/Midwest Book Review

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KATHARINE DEAN is Librarian and Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. MIRIAM CONTEH-MORGAN is Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian, Ohio State University. JAMES K. BRACKEN is Professor, University Libraries, and Adjunct Professor, English Department, Ohio State University.

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