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-== Women's writing:<br>their participation in the literary field ==+== Women's writing<br>and participation in the literary field ==
-<br><br>This part of the site will in the near future present women authors for whom records in the database ''WomenWriters'' are showing the importance, or for whom further research has been done. Focus will be on their attitude in the dialogues they are undertaking by publishing their works: messages to an intended readership, “answers” to preceding events or publications by others.+<br><br>
 +This part of the website presents women authors: '''quantities of names''' entered into the database: now (May 2012) [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors over 4000] (while two years ago they were about 2800). They can be listed and quantified in different ways: according to their nationality, language used, year of birth, genres practiced etc. These are just starting points of course. Final objective is to present and study those writers in their international context - allowing discussion of the place and role of women authors in the literary field: female celebrities as well as hitherto completely unknown or unnoticed women. <br><br>
-<br>In this programme, those considered as “authors” are women who wrote and published, either fiction or non-fiction, either books or contributions to the periodical press, either their own texts or translations of texts by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. Therefore, “intermediaries” are being classified here as “authors”. +As clearly the database ''WomenWriters'' is not "complete", any interpretation or conclusion based upon it must be considered as '''provisional''', and in need of check and further reflection. The latter is what this website is meant for.<br><br>
-<br>This provisional definition is of course not wholly unproblematic: what about oral forms of literature, for example? Wat about women, like [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=sevigne&work_Title=&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&rec_Year=&reference=&pageSize=50 Madame de Sévigné], who did not write for publication, but exerted considerable influence? These questions will be addressed in the first of the annual “NEWW November meetings” to be organized in Utrecht (November 22, 2007; Drift 23; more details will follow).+In this project the word "author" is used in its '''broadest sense''': a woman who wrote and published either fiction or non-fiction, books or contributions to the periodical press, her own texts or translations of writings by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. Therefore, "intermediaries" are being classified here as "authors". <br><br>
-<br>In this part of the site, just as anywhere, we welcome short articles to be published online, as far as they are resulting from research facilitated by the database ''WomenWriters'' (propositions are subject to decision by the editorial board). Articles are presented - only for the sake of easily being found - according to the women's national identities:<br><br>+This large definition is not wholly unproblematic. For example: what about '''oral literature?''' What about women, like [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/receptions?fromreceptionsearch=1&sort=year&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=S%C3%A9vign%C3%A9&worktitle=&receptionauthor=&receptiontitle=&receptionyear=&references=&notes=&per_page=200 Madame de Sévigné], who did not write for publication, but still exerted considerable influence, when the letters written to her daughter were published some 40 years after her death? These questions have been addressed during the first of the annual “NEWW November meetings”: [[22 November 2007]], and will be further discussed.<br><BR>
-*[[Dutch authors]], <BR>+Authors can be (''i.e.'' are often) classified - for the sake of their easily being found - according to their belonging to one '''country, culture or language'''. Here also problems arise, because of possible confusion or contradiction between nationality and language. This is equally under discussion.<br><br>
-*[[French authors]], <BR>+
-*[[English authors]].<BR>+
-<br>The choice of women presented here, and of countries represented, is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception of women's writing in the Netherlands: we intended to find traces of ''foreign'' authors finding Dutch readers. And indeed we found the names (or pseudonyms) and works of about 1550 non-Dutch authors having found readership in the Netherlands before c.1900. This means for example that the database ''WomenWriters'' contains the names of and any information about:<br><br>+Thanks to information entered into the database ''WomenWriters'', these authors can also be '''classified''' according to other criteria than<br>
-* [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=4&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn 210 authors] from Germany,<br>+* the [[country they lived in]]. <br>
-* [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&pseudonym=1&Country_ID=10&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn 80] from the United States,<br>+These can be: <br>
-* [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=7&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn 65] from Sweden,<br>+* the year they lived in - [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors?fromauthorsearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&authorname=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&gender=F&year=1789&country_ids=3&bibliography=&personal_situation=&financial_situation=&notes=&per_page=200&x=19&y=21 here] for instance the list of French authors active (living) in 1789,<br>
-* [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=5&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&page=1 80] from Italy, or writing in Italian (example which is illustrating the difficulty of classifying authors... The question will be discussed in one of our upcoming meetings.)<br><br>+* their work as [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors?fromauthorsearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&authorname=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&gender=F&year=&bibliography=&personal_situation=&financial_situation=translat&notes=&per_page=200&x=20&y=26 translators], <br>
-In terms of sheer discovery, this is certainly rewarding, but more astonishing still were the numbers we found of Dutch “authors”. Instead of the about 10 or 15 women’s names to be encountered in current Dutch literary historiography (concerning the periods before 1900), we reached a number of more than [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=2&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn 700 names] (19th century: 400; 18th: 175; 17th: 100; earlier: 25). This sounds incredible; analysis of the data and detailed study of the reception documents themselves (starting October 2007), in relation to the women’s works, will have to explain our findings.<br><br>+* their [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors?fromauthorsearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&authorname=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&gender=F&year=&bibliography=&personal_situation=&financial_situation=travel&notes=&per_page=200&x=13&y=21 travelling] activities, <br>
-Authors are not to be presented only according to their nationalities. Other classifications are possible, and may be no less usefull. For example:<br>+* their activity as (in fact) [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors?fromauthorsearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&authorname=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&gender=F&year=&bibliography=&personal_situation=&financial_situation=scholar&notes=&per_page=200&x=19&y=19 scholars], <br>
-'''by genre or type of writing activity:'''<br>+* their writing for [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors?fromauthorsearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&authorname=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&gender=F&year=&bibliography=&personal_situation=&financial_situation=child&notes=&per_page=200&x=25&y=23 children], <br>
-*[[translators]], <br>+* etc.<br><br>
-*[[journalists]], <br>+
-* etc.;<br>+
-'''or by origin:'''<br>+
-*[[women born or/and living in Utrecht]], <br>+
-* or elsewhere;<br>+
-'''by first name:''' <br>+
-*[[women named Susanna or Suzanna...]],<br>+
-*or [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&authorName=johanna&pseudonym=1&year=&personal=&professional=&bibliography=&notesfield=&Editor_ID=geen&pageSize=50 Johanna] or [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&authorName=elisabeth&pseudonym=1&year=&personal=&professional=&bibliography=&notesfield=&Editor_ID=geen&pageSize=50 Elisabeth]; <br>+
-'''or by authors' intentions, for example:''' <br>+
-*[[the choice of characters' names]],<br>+
-*[[the choice of narrative developments or topoï]].<br><br><br>+
-SvD, September 2007<br><br><br>+Classification (and quantification) is also possible on the level of the women's works: <br>
 +* [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works?fromworksearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&worktitle=&workyear=&genre_ids%5B%5D=103&worktopos=&notes=&per_page=200&x=29&y=20 travel writing], <br>
 +* [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works?fromworksearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&worktitle=&workyear=&genre_ids%5B%5D=17&worktopos=&notes=&per_page=200&x=20&y=22 religious writing], <br>
 +* [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works?fromworksearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&worktitle=&workyear=&genre_ids%5B%5D=4&worktopos=&notes=&per_page=200&x=11&y=23 autobiographies], <br>
 +* [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works?fromworksearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&worktitle=&workyear=&genre_ids%5B%5D=2&worktopos=&notes=&per_page=200&x=24&y=26 novels], <br>
 +* [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works?fromworksearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&worktitle=&workyear=&genre_ids%5B%5D=102&worktopos=&notes=&per_page=200&x=22&y=23 historical novels], <br>
 +* novels containing particular themes or narrative topoi, such as:<br>
 +** le [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works?fromworksearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&worktitle=&workyear=&genre_ids%5B%5D=2&worktopos=MENTORAT&notes=&per_page=200&x=22&y=17 mentorat] (féminin),<br>
 +** le [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works?fromworksearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&worktitle=&workyear=&genre_ids%5B%5D=2&worktopos=REFUSER%3DMARIAGE&notes=&per_page=200&x=19&y=17 refus du mariage]
 +* works published [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works?fromworksearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&worktitle=&workyear=&worktopos=&notes=preface&per_page=200&x=18&y=20 with a preface]:<br>
 +** [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works?fromworksearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&worktitle=&workyear=&worktopos=&notes=autograph+preface&per_page=200&x=18&y=21 by the author herself],<br>
 +** [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works?fromworksearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&worktitle=&workyear=&worktopos=&notes=allograph+preface&per_page=200&x=22&y=21 by someone else],
 +* etc., <br><br>
 + 
 +the authors can also be classified according to their being received in a country/countries: <br>
 +* [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/receptions?fromreceptionsearch=1&sort=year&page=1&searchtoggle=off&workauthor=&worktitle=&workcountry_ids=3&receptionauthor=&receptiontitle=&receptionyear=&country_ids=6&references=&per_page=200 here] French authors who have been received in Spain (according to the present content of the database of course), <br>
 +* and [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/receptions?fromreceptionsearch=1&sort=year&page=1&searchtoggle=on&workauthor=&worktitle=&workcountry_ids=3&receptionauthor=&receptiontitle=&receptionyear=&country_ids=2&references=&per_page=200&x=16&y=19 here] those French authors who were received in the Netherlands (''idem''), <br><br>
 + 
 +and even according to their celebrity now: <br>
 +* authors mentioned in ''Lettres Européennes. Histoire de la littérature européenne'' (1992) - at least in the Dutch version of it (1994): [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors?fromauthorsearch=1&sort=upper(authors.name)&page=1&searchtoggle=on&authorname=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&gender=F&year=&bibliography=Lettres+europ%C3%A9ennes&personal_situation=&financial_situation=&notes=&per_page=20&x=22&y=25 81],<br>
 +* Dutch and Flemish authors presented by literary historian Knuvelder in his manual (ed. 1982): [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors?fromauthorsearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&authorname=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&year=&bibliography=knuvelder&personal_situation=&financial_situation=&notes=&per_page=200&x=26&y=19 25], <br>
 +* authors chosen to be part of the Utrecht literary canon (2008): [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors?fromauthorsearch=1&sort=upper%28authors.name%29&page=1&searchtoggle=on&authorname=&pseudonymflag=0&pseudonymflag=1&gender=&year=&country_ids%5B%5D=2&bibliography=&personal_situation=&financial_situation=&notes=Utrechtse+literaire+canon&per_page=200&x=21&y=19 9], <br>
 +* etc.... <br><br>
 + 
 +The authors' being included or not in these listings depends of course on information entered, or not, in the records concerning these women.<br>
 +Please keep in mind that users who are not logged in cannot see the database in its entirety and may therefore be unable to find some of the information presented on this page.<br>
 +Changes are made to the database's search functions all the time to accommodate specific needs and wishes: researchers who feel that the database is lacking certain features are encouraged to contact [mailto:suzan.van.dijk@huygensinstituut.knaw.nl Suzan van Dijk] in order to look at the possibilities.<br><br>
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +SvD, May 2012<br><br><br>
<hr> <hr>
<br> <br>
-*The writing side > <br><br>+*The production side > <br><br>

Current revision


Women's writing
and participation in the literary field



This part of the website presents women authors: quantities of names entered into the database: now (May 2012) over 4000 (while two years ago they were about 2800). They can be listed and quantified in different ways: according to their nationality, language used, year of birth, genres practiced etc. These are just starting points of course. Final objective is to present and study those writers in their international context - allowing discussion of the place and role of women authors in the literary field: female celebrities as well as hitherto completely unknown or unnoticed women.

As clearly the database WomenWriters is not "complete", any interpretation or conclusion based upon it must be considered as provisional, and in need of check and further reflection. The latter is what this website is meant for.

In this project the word "author" is used in its broadest sense: a woman who wrote and published either fiction or non-fiction, books or contributions to the periodical press, her own texts or translations of writings by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. Therefore, "intermediaries" are being classified here as "authors".

This large definition is not wholly unproblematic. For example: what about oral literature? What about women, like Madame de Sévigné, who did not write for publication, but still exerted considerable influence, when the letters written to her daughter were published some 40 years after her death? These questions have been addressed during the first of the annual “NEWW November meetings”: 22 November 2007, and will be further discussed.

Authors can be (i.e. are often) classified - for the sake of their easily being found - according to their belonging to one country, culture or language. Here also problems arise, because of possible confusion or contradiction between nationality and language. This is equally under discussion.

Thanks to information entered into the database WomenWriters, these authors can also be classified according to other criteria than

These can be:

  • the year they lived in - here for instance the list of French authors active (living) in 1789,
  • their work as translators,
  • their travelling activities,
  • their activity as (in fact) scholars,
  • their writing for children,
  • etc.

Classification (and quantification) is also possible on the level of the women's works:

the authors can also be classified according to their being received in a country/countries:

  • here French authors who have been received in Spain (according to the present content of the database of course),
  • and here those French authors who were received in the Netherlands (idem),

and even according to their celebrity now:

  • authors mentioned in Lettres Européennes. Histoire de la littérature européenne (1992) - at least in the Dutch version of it (1994): 81,
  • Dutch and Flemish authors presented by literary historian Knuvelder in his manual (ed. 1982): 25,
  • authors chosen to be part of the Utrecht literary canon (2008): 9,
  • etc....

The authors' being included or not in these listings depends of course on information entered, or not, in the records concerning these women.
Please keep in mind that users who are not logged in cannot see the database in its entirety and may therefore be unable to find some of the information presented on this page.
Changes are made to the database's search functions all the time to accommodate specific needs and wishes: researchers who feel that the database is lacking certain features are encouraged to contact Suzan van Dijk in order to look at the possibilities.


SvD, May 2012




  • The production side >

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