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The British and Irish 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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Basic search: Type desired search terms / keywords to search full-text of all items in the collection.

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

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Searching in OneSearch:

For each of the 266 publications in this collection, OneSearch only includes brief citation/bibliographic information. Use the Alexander Street Press interface to search within the text of the 91,000 pages.

Example OneSearch Book record: Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland

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Database Content:

• This second edition of the British and Irish Women's Diaries and Letters collection covers more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
• Includes over 100,000 pages of material assembled from numerous bibliographies and from newly conducted research. Alongside the published material are 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscripts.
• Includes different types of diaries, such as travel, religious, and journalistic.
• Both the famous and the unknown populate the collection. The lives and thoughts of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Queen Victoria, Frances Kemble, Queen Elizabeth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Christina Rossetti, Florence Nightingale, and Maude Gonne can be compared with the experiences and ideas of ordinary women from all walks of life.

Platform:  Alexander Street

Full-text: All items

Content Update: Closed/one-time collection

Type of records: Primary source materials, including:

• Letters
• Editorials
• Diaries
• Memoirs
• Autobiographies

Number of records: 266 publications / 91,000 pages.

Provider: ProQuest - Alexander Street / CSU Collections

Library Guide Database URL: https://library.csustan.edu/britishwomensdiaries

Library PURL: https://libpurl.csustan.edu/s/purl.php?2453

OneSearch

Collection Record: British and Irish Women's Diaries.

Example Book record: Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland