Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, the writings represent all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, all geographical regions, the famous and the unknown. The materials provide an immediate, firsthand account of all aspects of women s lives, written for themselves, their families, or their friends thereby giving a unique and personal view of history. This first release of North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial-1950 contains approximately 9,000 pages of writings from the period Colonial to 1920. Each quarterly release will add approximately 22,000 pages, until the database is complete in summer 2002. The database is available either by one-time purchase of perpetual access or by annual Web subscription.
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