Women Writers in History is an international peer-reviewed book series that publishes monographs and edited volumes on a variety of subjects related to the history of women authors as a category until the early twentieth century. In particular, the series addresses the role women writers and female cultural brokers played in their respective countries, beyond national borders in the whole of Europe, and further afield. The series foregrounds new material and approaches that shed light on this topic, focusing especially on the contemporary reception of these women’s writings.
Thanks to important efforts in text digitization, for instance of the early periodical press and of private correspondences, as well as the increasing availability of bibliometric databases studying the international circulation of books and texts, much new reception data is now becoming available. Literary historians are now beginning to use these data to understand the place of female authors in European literary history. We welcome research that, rather than focusing on individual authors and individual case studies, focuses on large-scale research, preferably drawing on empirical data concerning the reception side of literary communication. Volumes should ideally focus on the communication that took place between these historical female authors and their (contemporary) readers at home and abroad, and should provide insight into the positions adopted by these women.
The series Women Writers in History is coordinated by members of the international NEWW Network (New approaches to European Women’s Writing, created in 2005) and the DARIAH-EU working group ‘Women Writers in History’. For more information on this working group, please see https://www.dariah.eu/activities/working-groups/women-writers-in-history/, or consult the online tool (currently being redeveloped at https://womenwriters.rich.ru.nl/) which allows users to stock, share and analyze historical reception data.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals to the publisher at BRILL, Masja Horn and Rebecca Short. Researchers who are not members of the NEWW network are also welcome to submit a proposal.
Please refer to our Guidelines for a Book Proposal.
All submissions are subject to a double-anonymous peer review process prior to publication.
Editor-in-Chief
Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, Volda University College, Norway
Editorial Board
Nadezhda Alexandrova, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Gillian Dow, University of Southampton, UK
Hilde Hoogenboom, Arizona State University, USA
Katja Mihurko, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Amelia Sanz, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Beatrijs Vanacker, KU Leuven, Belgium
Advisory Board
Vanda Anastacio, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Viola Parente-Čapková, University of Turku, Finland
Marie-Louise Coolahan, NUI Galway, Ireland
Biljana Dojčinović, Belgrade University, Serbia
Ton van Kalmthout, Huygens ING, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ramona Mihailă, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, Romania
Henriette Partzsch, University of Glasgow, UK
Suzan van Dijk, Huygens ING, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kerstin Wiedemann, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals to the publisher at BRILL, Christa Stevens. Also researchers who are no members of the NEWW network are welcome to submit a proposal.
Please follow the Author Instructions (PDF) when submitting your manuscript.