Women Writers Online Licensing and Access

About Women Writers Online

Women Writers Online is a wide-ranging and richly diverse collection of women’s writing in English from the pre-Victorian period. It brings together more than 300 works that illuminate a broad cross-section of women’s literate culture between 1450 and 1850, including political, philosophical, and scientific writing as well as religious material, poetry, drama, fiction, and a huge variety of texts that challenge traditional genre categorization. The collection is rigorously transcribed and encoded in TEI/XML, and is presented through an interface that emphasizes exploration, analysis, and new modes of digital research.

Accompanying the texts are a wealth of contextual essays, sample syllabi and suggested assignments, and experimental tools for exploration and visualization. As a tool for teaching and researching women’s writing, WWO is unparalleled in its focus and richness.

Women Writers Online is available by institutional and individual subscription. Our subscribers include major research universities, liberal arts colleges, and research centers and libraries from around the world.

Free Trials

We offer a free one-month trial subscription for anyone who is curious about the Women Writers Online collection. We are usually able to start a trial within a few days of the request. To arrange a trial, please contact us at WWP@brown.edu or call 401-863-3619. Individuals requesting trial access should include their name, address, institutional affiliation (if applicable), and a password. Institutional requests should include a list of IP addresses.

Institutional licenses

For institutional subscribers, a copy of our institutional license and our pricing schedule are available.

To purchase a license, please print a copy of the license agreement, fill it out, and send it to:

Licenses
Women Writers Project
Brown University
Box 1841
Providence, RI 02912

For more information, please contact our Project Manager, John Melson (WWP at brown dot edu), or call the WWP at 401-863-3619.

Individual licenses

Individual subscriptions are now $50 per year; we also offer a discounted student rate of $25 per year. To purchase a license, please print a copy of the individual license agreement, fill it out, and send it to the address above.

Individual subscribers who have problems with access (for example, a password that does not seem to work) can get help by sending email to WWP_support at brown.edu.