NEWW : short presentation
Women in the literary field of pre-1900 Europe: 2365 names "found" up to now.
Focus on the Netherlands: 766 Dutch "authors".
Importance of the number?
Their status??
76 authors mentioned in NNBW
126 authors mentioned by Ter Laan 1941
126 authors mentioned in Met en zonder lauwerkrans: anthology of Dutch women's writing 1550-1850
an example: the case of Miss Boele van Hensbroek
SvD, November 2007 (not finished)