About The Sitting Room Library's Online Catalog

Take a look at the Sitting Room online catalog.

You don’t even need to have a specific author or title in mind—the opening screen has a wonderful parade of book jackets to browse, not so very different from scanning the shelves of a bookstore, just to take in what is there and available, and maybe remind yourself of something you “always meant to read.”  If something intrigues you, just click on the title to retrieve more information and the book’s location in the Sitting Room.  It is a rich parade—we now have over 6,000 titles!

If we have a file for an author in our archives, that will show up in the catalog record as well. You can find a full list of our (ever-growing) archives at the top of this page.

Articles, correspondence, photographs and assorted indescribable treasures are contained in the overflowing Sitting Room archives. Over 270 authors and poets are represented here and curated by volunteer archivist Eloise Van Tassel. 

The Archive contains primary materials and unique, esoteric information, not only on famous women authors, but on some lesser-known treasures as well. 

Women Writers Archive as of 5/6/22

Individual Authors

• Ackerman, Diane
• Adams, Alice
• Adichie, C. Nigosi
• Adisa, Opal Palmer
• Adnan, Etel (see also Art Archives)
• Alcott, Louisa May
• Alexander, Meena
• Allen, Paula Gunn
• Allende, Isabel
• Allison, Dorothy Graham Alta (psd.)
• Alvarez, Julia
• Angelou, Maya
• Anzaldua, Gloria
• Arendt, Hannah
• Ashton-Warner, Sylvia
• Atwood, Margaret Oversized
• Austen, Jane Oversized
• Austin, Mary Hunter
• Awiakta, Marilou Oversized
• Barnes, Djuna
• Bedford, Sybille
• Behn, Aphra
• Bishop, Elizabeth
• Boland,  Eavan Oversized
• Bowles, Jane Sydney
• Boyle, Kay
• Bradstreet, Anne
• Brittain, Vera
• Bronte Sisters
• Brooks, Gwendolyn
• Browning, Elizabeth 
• Barrett
• Bryant, Dorothy Oversized
• Buck, Pearl S.
• Burney, Fanny (Madam d’Arblay)
• Butler, Octavia
• Canary, Martha (psd. Calamity Jane) Oversized
• Carlyle, Jane Welsh
• Carson, Anne
• Carson, Rachel
• Carter, Angela
• Castillo, Ana
• Cather, Willa
• Cavendish, Margaret
• Cervantes, Lorna Dee
• Chopin, Kate
• Cisneros, Sandra
• Cliff, Michelle
• Clifton, Lucille Thelma
• Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth (psd. Anodos)
• Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
• Coolbrith, Ina
• Daly, Mary
• Danticat, Edwidge
• Davis, Rebecca Harding
• De Beauvoir, Simone
• De La Cruz, Sor Juana Inez
• Delmia, Cathy 
• Deming Barbara
• De Navarre, Marguerite
• De Pusan, Christine
• De Staël, Madame (A. Necker)
• Dickinson, Emily Oversized
• Didion, Joan
• Dillard, Annie
• Dinesen, Isak
• Ding Ling (Ting Ling)
• DiPrima, Diane
• Diski, Jenny
• Divakaruni, Chitra
• Donoghue, Emma
• Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)
• Dove, Rita Frances
• Drabble, Margaret
• Duras, Marguerite
• Edgeworth, Maria
• Ehrenreich, Barbara
• Eliot, George (psd. Maryanne Evans)
• El Saadawai, Nawaln
• Emecheta, Buchi
• Ephron, Nora
• Erdrich, Louise Oversized
• Fallaci, Orianna
• Faludi, Susan
• Ferber, Edna
• Figes, Eva
• Fisher, M.F.K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
• Jackson, Shirley
• Jewett, Sarah Orne
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
• Jordan, June
• Kaye, Melanie
• Kemble, Frances (Fanny)
• Kempe, Margery
• Kimmerer, Robin Wall
• Kincaid, Jamaica
• Kingsolver, Barbara
• Kingston, Maxine Hong Oversized
• Kizer, Carolyn
• Koolish, Lynda
• Kumin, Maxine
• Kyger, Joanne
• Lahiri, Jhumpa
• Lamott, Anne
• Lashgiri, Deirdre
• Laurence, Margaret Oversized
• Lavin, Mary
• Lawrence, Candida 
• Leduc, Violette
• Lee, Harper
• Leffland, Ella
• LeGuin, Ursula
• Lessing, Doris Oversized
• Le Sueur, Meridel Oversized
• Levertov, Denise
• Lewis, Janet Oversized
• Li, Yiyun
• Lim, Catherine
• Long, Philomene 
• Lorde, Audre
• Lowell, Amy
• Loy, Mina
• Luxenburg, Rosa
• Macaulay, Rose (Dame)
• Mansfield, Katherine (Beauchamp)
• Marshall, Paule
• McCullers, Carson
• McCunn, Ruthanne Lum
• McDermott, Alice
• McGuckian, Medbh Oversized
• Miles, Josephine
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent Oversized
• Mitford, Jessica
• Miletich, Phyllis
• Moers, Ellen
• Moffat, Mary Jane
• Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
• Moraga, Cherrie
• Moore, Marianne
• Morrison, Toni Oversized
• Mukherjee, Bharati
• Munro, Alice
• Murdoch, Iris
• Murray, Pauli
• Nafsi, Azar
• Nin, Anais
• Nye, Naomi Shahib
• Oates, Joyce Carol
• O’Connor, Flannery
• Ohmann, Carol
• Olds, Sharon Oversized
• Oliver, Mary
• Olsen, Tillie Oversized
• Ozeki, Ruth
• Ozick, Cynthia
• Paley, Grace
• Parker, Dorothy
• Parks, Annette Phelps Oversized
• Patchett, Anne
• Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
• Piercy, Marge
• Pineda, Cecile
• Plath, Sylvia Oversized
• Porter, Katherine Anne
• Proulx, Annie
• Pym, Barbara Mary
• Randall, Margaret
• Rankin, Claudine
• Rawlings, Marjorie K.
• Rhys, Jean (Gwen Williams)
• Rich, Adrienne Oversized
• Richardson, Dorothy
• Riding, Laura (Jackson)
• Robinson, Marilynne
• Rosetti, Christina (Ellen Alleyne)
• Rowlandson, Mary White
• Royall, Anne Newport
• Rukeyser, Muriel Oversized
• Rule, Jane
• Russ, Joanna
• Ryan, Kay
• Sand, George (Amandine Dupin)
• Welty, Eudora Oversized
• West, Dorothy
• West, Jessamyn
• West, Rebecca
• Wharton, Edith
• Wheatly, Phyllis
• Winnemucca, Sara (Hopkins)
• Winterson, JEanette
• Wiseman, Adele
• Wittig, Monique
• Wolf, Christa
• Wollstonecraft, Mary (Goodwin)
• Woodson, Jacqueline
• Woolf, Virginia
• Wordsworth, Dorothy
• Yamada, Mitsuye
• Yourcenar, Marguerite
• Yousafzai, Malala

General Categories

• Activism
• Age - ing Oversized
• American History
• Androgyny
• Architects
• Artists
• Asian-American Oversized
• Authorship: Gender and Style
• Autobiography
• Bibliographies - annotated Oversized
• Biography
• Black American Oversized
• Censorship, Banned
• Chicana
• Children’s Literature
• Disabled
• Diaries
• Domestic Violence
• Dreams in literature
• Education
• Equal Rights
• Erotica & Pornography
• Experimental Fiction
• Fairytales
• Family
• Fashion
• Feminist, Criticism
• Feminist, Pedagogy
• Feminism, History
• Feminist, Theory
• Feminist, Literary
• Criticism
• Film
• Performing Arts
• Food/Wine
• Friendship in literature 
• Gender Fluidity  Oversized
• Gothic
• Graphic Novels
• Health
• History Oversized
• Humor
• Immigrants
• Jewish
• Journalists
• Labor Movement
• Language
• Lesbian Writings Oversized
• Libraries & Special Collections
• Love Letters
• Madness
• Marriage
• Men in Literature
• Men’s Movement
• Music
• Muslim
• Mystery
• Mythology
• Native American Oversized
• Nature & Environment
• Philosophers
• Poetry
• Politics
• Psychology
• Publishers
• Religion & Spirituality
• Reproductive Rights
• Science Fiction
• Scientists
• Sexuality
• Sports & Athletes
• Suffrage
• Spain
• United States of America
• Vietnam