Because of the methods in which the substantial data can be mined or formulated, Orlando features the greatest accessibility to data on British ladies writers and serves as a product for equivalent databases that will (1 hopes) supplant printed literary dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks. A database of biographical, crucial, and bibliographical info on far more than 1,000 lifeless and residing British girls writers, together with entries on literary and historic functions and some males (c. For all those composing between 1580 and 1700, the most thorough supply is Maureen Bell, George Parfitt, and Simon Shepherd, A Biographical Dictionary of English Women Writers, 1580-1720 (Boston: Hall, 1990 298 pp.), whose approximately 550 temporary entries consist of females "whose only known producing is a one surviving manuscript letter" entrants are also indexed in Biography and Genealogy Master Index (J565). Blain, Clements, and Grundy, Feminist Companion to Literature in English (J593), features far much more writers, but the entries hardly ever exceed five hundred phrases. Kirk, John Foster. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. Allibone, S. Austin. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century.
