British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, 1500-1950 is a searchable online database of primary material from Alexander Street Press, providing over 100,000 pages of personal writing that bring together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
Many of the letters and diaries have been previously published. Those published volumes are all listed in Voyager, together with some of the printed editions which we have in the Library.
The database includes more than just reprductions of the primary source documents. The Help menu in the database has a detailed list of the searchable fields in the database, to help you make the most of the additional indexing terms:
Age at First Childbirth
Age at Marriage
Age When Writing
All Author Forms
Author
Day of Month
Document Type
Editor or Translator
Historical Events
Marital Status When Writing
Maternal Status When Writing
Month Written
Nationality
Notes
Number of Children
Number of Marriages
Occupation
Personal Events
Place of Birth
Place of Death
Publisher
Race
Recipient
Recipient's Gender
Record Number
Relationship to Author
Religion
Source Type
Subject Headings
Subject Headings (Source)
Title (Source)
Where Sent (Geographical)
Where Sent (Region)
Where Written (Geographical)
Where Written (Region)
Where Written (Setting)
Year of Birth
Year of Death
Year of Publication (Source)
Year Written