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The first iteration of the Canada's Early Women Writers database was created in the 1980s through diligent work in physical archives and through postal communications. It presented biographical and publication information for more than 470 women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language book or pamphlet of fiction or poetry that was published before 1940.
This work became the basis for the enhanced and updated Canada's Early Women Writers database at the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, which launched in May 2018.
Basic information about over 5000 early Canadian women writers appears in the simplified Database of Canada's Early Women Writers (DoCEWW) at SFU.
For further information contact:
- Carole Gerson: gerson at sfu.ca
- Karyn Huenemann: karynhuenemann at gmail.com