Key features
Content
- Up-to-date, collaboratively authored biographical, critical and historical material on over 1000 writers (over 20,000 bibliographical listings and 30,000 event listings)
- Covers a wide-ranging time span, from the early medieval period to today
- Includes related material on literary, social and historical events, male writers and non-British women writers
- Highly detailed lines of enquiry can be pursued, from the financial situation of literary women in the nineteenth century to women's literary representations of warfare.
- Regularly updated with new or revised author entries, and information relating to living writers
Functionality
- Users can follow extensive pathways: simple searches by author, occupation, genre or place, or combined passages through powerfully-focused searches which exploit the rich tagging underlying the database
- Chronological features allows users to create their own timelines by name, date, place, phrase, genre or theme
- Thousands of cross-linked references between entries, chronological sequences and collections of passages enable ease of searching
- Available to both institutions and individuals by annual subscription
- Comprehensive customer service, answering all your queries post-purchase