Women Writers Online and Renaissance Women Online Documentation

This page is the entry point to the textbase. The RWO subset of the textbase also has a Table of Contents page, although the list of texts is a subset of the whole textbase. From this page, you can select any text or subsection of a text for browsing.

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The Table of Contents lists all the texts that are available in electronic form in the textbase (or in the RWO subset, if you are viewing the RWO table of contents). Texts are listed by author's last name, followed by the title and the date of publication. Works of anonymous authors are listed as [unknown]. Pseudonymous works are listed by the author's true name, if known.

Click on the author or title of a work to browse that work, starting at the title page.

The right-pointing arrow at the left of a title indicates that the the text has subsections. If you click on the arrow, you will see an expanded table of contents with the first level of subsection, for that work. The arrow will now point down to indicate that you are at the expanded view. Note that subsections may also be preceded by a right-pointing arrow if there are further subsections. You can click on the arrow to view them as well.

You may click on the title of any subsection to start browsing the text at that point.