Orlando and Women Writers Online: Free for the Month of March
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In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re pleased to offer free access throughout March to Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present and Women Writers Online.
Orland Platform
To log in, visit the Orlando site and use the following credentials:
Email: OrlandoOpen@ualberta.ca
Password: free-Orlando
Orlando offers a richly detailed cultural history built from the lives and works of women writers.
The resource currently includes:
- More than 1,400 author entries
- Tens of thousands of chronology and bibliographic records
- Millions of semantic tags
- References to over 31,000 individuals and 8,700 organizations.
The platform is maintained in collaboration with University of Alberta.
Women Writers Online (WWO)
The Women Writers Online (WWO) collection features 475 texts written or translated by women between 1526 and 1850. Alongside WWO, the Women Writers Project provides several always–open-access resources, including:
- Women Writers in Context (Nearly 150 scholarly essays on early women’s writing)
- Women Writers in Review (Close to 700 historical reviews and responses to WWO authors)
- WWP Lab (Tools, visualizations, and experimental research on women’s writing)
- Additional teaching materials developed with collaborators and instructors.
New users can explore these resources through the project’s Welcome Page.