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North American Women's Letters and Diaries

The North American Women's Letters and Diaries collection includes the full-text of writings from over 500 women covering 400 years of British and Irish history.

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Titles, Historical Events, People, Subjects, Place, Content Type (Essays, Articles, Letters)

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OneSearch only searches and lists brief information for each of the 600 publications in this collection. Use the Alexander Street Press interface to search within the text of the 150,000 pages.

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Detailed Description - Noth American Women's Diaries and Letters

The collection includes approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts—all in electronic format for the first time. The material is drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, and much of it is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, a wide range of ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous, and the not so famous. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database.