England
- Bell, Maureen, George Parfitt, and Simon Shepherd (eds.),
A Biographical Dictionary of English Women Writers 1580-1720. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., 1990.
- Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy (eds.),
The feminist companion to literature in English : women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. London, Batsford, 1990.
- Donoghue, Frank,
"'Our last expedient': female literary careers", in The Fame Machine. Book reviewing and eighteenth-century literary careers. Stanford Ca, Stanford University press, 1996, p. 159-176.
- Ferguson, Moira (ed.),
First Feminists: British Women Writers, 1578-1799.
Bloomington, IN /Old Westbury, NY: Indiana University Press / Feminist Press, 1985.
- Keane, Angela,
Women writers and the English nation in the 1790s.
Cambridge studies in romanticism 44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Mellor, Anne K.,
Mothers of the Nation. Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830. Bloomington/Indianapolis, Indiana University press, 2000.
- Otten, Charlotte F. (ed.),
English Women's Voices, 1540-1700.
Miami: Florida International Press, 1992 (anthology).
- Schellenberg, Betty A.,
The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Staves, Susan,
A literary history of women's writing in Britain, 1660-1789. Cambridge, Cambridge University press, 2006.
- Todd, Janet (ed.)
A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. London: Methuen, 1984.
- Todd, Janet (ed.)
British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide. New York: Continuum, 1989.
- Trodd, Anthea et al. (ed.),
Women's Writing in English.
London: Longman, 1998, several volumes (1150-1500, 1500-1700, 1700-1800).
- Wilcox, Helen (ed.),
Women and Literature in Britain 1500-1700.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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