Women Writer's Project

The Early Modern Era lasted from around 1450 to 1800, and spans the chronology of the Western Enlightenment. My friend Shakespeare was born in 1564, smack-dab in the middle of the period. But what about his female contemporaries? Although there are theories about the possibility of Shakespeare actually being a woman, the Women Writer's Project aims to bring the real women who wrote during this period "out of the archives" (WWP, n.d.) and into the light - the blue light of a computer. This long-term archival project makes these remarkable women's writings accessible to historians, teachers, students, and anyone who might want to meet the inescapable and ubiquitous Bard's female counterparts.

(WWP, n.d.)

With blog posts entitled Representing Race in the Early Modern Archive (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/representing-race-in-the-early-modern-archive/) to information about upcoming events (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/about/events.html#seminar_2022-05-16), this website is full of intriguing and significant information about the Early Modern histories of women.

Are you a historian interested in the Early Modern Era? Well, you better stop studying all those white men and research the women of the same period at WWP's website: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/