Site offers searchable and browsable cover-to-cover digital access to four women’s journals published in China between 1904 and 1937. Extensive metadata documents both the content of the journals and the individuals involved in their creation.
http://womag.uni-hd.de/
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Website of the Week (WoW) #206:The Thomas Gray Archive
Designed “to provide a structured platform for the scholarly discussion and exploration of Gray’s life and works,” the archive provides access to a large number of the 18th-century author’s poetry, prose, and correspondence, in the form of digital copies transcribed and annotated.
http://www.thomasgray.org/
Website of the Week (WoW) #205: The Wand’ring Jew’s Chronicle
Images and transcriptions from the 14 surviving editions of the English historical ballad, The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle, printed between roughly 1630 and 1830 in various versions and formats. The ballad recounts the history of the British monarchy starting with William the Conqueror.
Site also contains a bibliography and a tool for comparing the ballad’s woodblock illustrations.
http://wjc.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
Website of the Week (WoW) #204: Chawton House Library
A center for the study of early women’s writing from 1600 to 1830, Chawton House Library makes available online transcriptions of novels by women writers from that time span as well as short biographies.
Website of the Week (WoW) #203: Cubaliteraria
Cubaliteraria is the Web portal of the Instituto Cubano del Libro (Cuban Book Institute), which governs the publishing, marketing and promotion of books and serials in Cuba and represents the Cuban government vis-a-vis writers, writers’ organizations and publishers.
The portal contains news, reviews and editorials, biographies of many Cuban writers with bibliographies of their works, and information about the annual Havana International Book Fair.
Website of the Week (WoW) #202: Understanding Shakespeare
The result of collaboration between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library, this research tool provides open access to the texts of Shakespeare’s plays with a line-by-line means of navigation into the related scholarship available on JSTOR.
Website of the Week (WoW) #201: English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA)
This ongoing project has already digitized more than 7,000 English broadside ballads, primarily from the 17th century. In addition to high-quality facsimiles, the site provides transcriptions, extensive cataloguing, search functions. background essays, and recordings of many of the ballads.
Website of the Week (WoW) #200: I Remain: A Digital Archive of Letters, Manuscripts, and Ephemera
Digitized materials from Lehigh University Special Collections include items from the 15th through the 20th century, among them handbills, scrapbooks, contracts, deeds, manuscripts of literary works, and correspondence from major American and European writers, statesmen, philosophers, and scientists.
Each item is accompanied by a detailed annotation. The collection can be browsed by topic or author and searched by keyword, date, and document type. The majority of documents date from the 18th century forward. Some course assignments, transcriptions and translations are also featured.
Website of the Week (WoW) #199: The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (RA): Hebrew Authors
Institute publishes and promotes translations of works of Hebrew literature into other languages.
The website includes a general directory of 450 Hebrew authors, both classic and contemporary; synopses of titles represented by ITHL; and information on recent ITHL publications
http://www.ithl.org.il/
Website of the Week (WoW) #198: Badilisha Poetry X-Change
198 Website of the Week (WoW) #198: Badilisha Poetry X-Change
Audio archive showcases the work of more than 350 Pan-African poets from 24 different countries. Browse by name, country, language, theme, emotion. Includes brief biographies and many translations.
Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets | Spotlighting Pan-African Poetry
badilishapoetry.com
Badilisha Poetry X-Change is both an online audio archive and Pan-African poetry show delivered in radio format. Now the largest online collective of African poets on the planet, Badilisha has showcased and archived over 350 Pan-African poets from 24 different countries. It reflects the myriad of rh…
Audio archive showcases the work of more than 350 Pan-African poets from 24 different countries. Browse by name, country, language, theme, emotion. Includes brief biographies and many translations.