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This is a list under development of biographical dictionaries and other resources that contain information about women who may be notable.

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Lists of biographical dictionaries

Books

  • {{cite book | last=Bewley | first=Aisha | author-link=Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley | title=Muslim Women: A Biographical Dictionary | year=2004 | publisher=Ta-Ha Publishers | isbn=}}
  • {{cite web|url=https://womensbios.lib.virginia.edu/index.html|title=Collective Biographies of Women|author=Booth, Alison|publisher=University of Virginia Libraries|date=2021 |language=}}
  • {{cite book | editor-last=Cohen | editor-first=Aaron I. | title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers | location=New York, London | publisher=Books & Music (USA) | year=1987 }}
  • {{cite book| first1=Anne | last1=Commire | author1-link=Anne Commire | first2= Deborah |last2=Klezmer | title=Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages | date=2007}}
  • {{cite book |url=https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-biographical-dictionary-of-women-economists-9781843769026.html| editor=Dimand, Robert W. | editor2=Dimand, Mary Ann | editor3=Forget, Evelyn L. | title=A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists | publisher=E. Elgar | year=2004|ISBN=978-1-84376-902-6 }}
  • {{cite book | editor-first=Delia | editor-last=Gaze | editor-link=Delia Gaze | title=Dictionary of Women Artists | publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers | year=1997 }}
  • {{cite book | author-first=Beverly E. | author-last=Golemba | title=Lesser-known women: a biographical dictionary | publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers | year=1992 | url=https://archive.org/details/lesserknownwomen0000gole |url-access=registration }}
  • {{cite book | title=International Who's Who of Women | location=London | publisher=Europa Publications Ltd. | year=1992}} Annual editions thereafter.
  • {{cite book | editor1-last=Kuhn | editor1-first=Annette | editor1-link=Annette Kuhn | editor2-last=Radstone | editor2-first=Susannah | title=The Women's Companion to International Film | year=1990 | publisher=Virago Press | isbn=}}
  • {{cite book | last=Law | first=Cheryl | title=Women: A Modern Political Dictionary | year=2000 | publisher=‎I.B. Tauris | isbn=9781860645020}}
  • {{cite book | first1=Marilyn | last1= Ogilvie | author1-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie | first2=Joy | last2=Harvey | author2-link=Joy Harvey | title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century | date=2000}}
  • {{cite book | editor-last=Oakes | editor-first=Elizabeth H. | title=International encyclopedia of women scientists | year=2002 | isbn=9780816043811}}
  • {{cite book | first1=Helen | last1=Rappaport | author1-link=Helen Rappaport | author2=Marian Wright Edelman | author2-link=Marian Wright Edelman | title=Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers | publisher=ABC-Clio | year=2001}}
  • {{cite web|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia|title=Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women|publisher=Jewish Women's Archive|date=2021 |language=}}, under continuing development
  • {{cite book | editor-first=Bonnie G. | editor-last=Smith | title=Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history | location=Oxford | publisher=Oxford University Press| year=2008}} 4 vols.
  • {{cite book | last=Sparrow | first=Walter Shaw | author-link=Walter Shaw Sparrow | title=Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day | year=1905 }}
  • {{cite book| first1=Jenny | last1=Uglow | author1-link=Jenny Uglow | first2=M. | last2=Hendry | title=The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography | date=2005}}

Resources by continent or country

=Africa=

  • {{cite book | author-first=Kathleen | author-last=Sheldon | title=Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa | publisher=Rowman and Littlefield | year=2016 | edition=2nd }}
  • {{cite book | author-first=Ghada | author-last=Talhami | title=Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Africa | publisher=Scarecrow Press | year=2012 }}

=Argentina=

  • {{cite book | author-first=Lily | author-last=Sosa de Newton | author-link=Lily Sosa de Newton | title=Diccionario biográfico de mujeres argentinas | publisher=Plus Ultra | year=1986 | edition=3rd }}

=Australia=

  • {{cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/|title=Australian Women's Register|publisher=University of Melbourne; NFAW|date=2021 |language=}}, under development, now over 7,000 items
  • [http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/index.html The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia]

=Austria=

  • {{cite web|url=https://austria-forum.org/web-books/en/oesterreichfrauen01de2016isds|title=Lexikon Österreichischer Frauen|editor=Korotin, Ilse|publisher=Böhlau Verlag: Austria-Forum|date=2016 |language=German|isbn=978-3-205-79590-2}}

=Canada=

  • [https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft Types of Canadian Women], 1903, ed. Henry James Morgan
  • [https://archive.org/details/womanswhoswhoofa00leon Woman's Who's Who of America], 1915, ed. John William Leonard (Canada and US)

=China=

  • {{cite book | editor1=Lily Xiao Hong Lee | editor2= Clara Lau | editor3=A.D. Stefanowska | title=Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 | publisher=Routledge | year=1998 }}
  • {{cite book | editor1= Lily Xiao Hong Lee | editor2= Sue Wiles | title=Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II: Tang Through Ming 618 - 1644 | publisher=Routledge | year=2014 }}

=Denmark=

  • {{cite web|url=https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/634/|title=Kvinfo Expert Database|publisher=Kvinfo|access-date= |language=Danish}} Over 1,100 profiles of qualified Danish women in a variety of sectors, compiled as a basis for furthering their careers and success
  • {{cite book |editor=Møller Jensen, Elisabeth| title=Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon | year=2001|publisher=Rosinante & Co }}, 1,924 biographies in book form and online (in Danish)

=Great Britain=

  • [https://archive.org/details/englishfemalear00claygoog English Female Artists], 1876, Ellen C. Clayton, Tinsley Brothers. Also [https://archive.org/details/englishfemalear02claygoog Vol 2]. See English Female Artists for red links
  • [https://archive.org/details/womenofenglandth00ellirich The Women of England, their Social Duties and Domestic Habits], 1939, Mrs. Ellis; Fisher, Son, & Co.
  • {{cite book | editor1-last=Ewan | editor1-first=Elizabeth | editor2-last=Pipes | editor2-first=Rose | editor3-last=Rendall | editor3-first=Jane | editor4-last=Reynolds | editor4-first=Siân | title=New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women | year=2018 | edition=2nd | publisher=‎ Edinburgh University Press | isbn=}}
  • {{cite book | last=Gray | first=Sara | title=British Women Artists: A Biographical Dictionary of 1,000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts | year=2019 | publisher=Dark River | isbn=}}
  • {{cite book | last=Oldfield | first=Sybil | title=Women Humanitarians: A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Active Between 1900-1950 | year=2001 | publisher=‎Continuum | isbn=9780826449627}}

=Netherlands=

  • {{cite web|url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/voltooide_lemmata|title=Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland|publisher=Huygens|date=2021 |language=}}, under continued development in Dutch

=Sweden=

  • {{cite web |url=https://skbl.se/en/article |editor=Larsson, Lisbeth |editor2=Sjöberg, Maria | title=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon | year=2021|publisher=University of Gothenburg }}, under development since 2018 (in Swedish and English)

=Switzerland=

  • {{cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/search/alphabetic?text=*&sort=hls.title_sortString&sortOrder=asc&collapsed=true&f_hls.letter_string=A&r=1|title=Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse|publisher=Académie suisse des sciences humaines et sociales (ASSH)|date=2017 |language=}} under development in French, German and Italian with many biographies of women

=United States=

  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Bernstein |editor1-first=Leonard |editor2-first=Alan |editor2-last=Winkler |editor3-first=Linda |editor3-last=Zierdt-Warshaw |date=1997 |title=African and African American Women of Science |location= |publisher=‎ Peoples Pub Group |oclc= |isbn= }}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Braukman |editor1-first=Stacy Lorraine |editor2-first=Susan |editor2-last=Ware |date=2004 |title=Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century |location=Cambridge, MA |publisher=Belknap Press |oclc=937332808 |isbn=978-0-674-01488-6 }}
  • {{cite book | author-first=Jessie | author-last=Carney Smith | title=Notable Black American Women | year=1992–2003}}
  • {{cite book | author-first=Michael D. | author-last=Davis | title=Black American Women in Olympic Track and Field: A Complete Illustrated Reference | publisher=McFarland & Co. | year=1992}}
  • {{cite web|url=https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN|title=Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States|editor1=Dublin, Thomas | editor2=Sklar, Kathryn Kish|publisher=Alexander Street|date=2021 |language=}}
  • Hanaford, Phebe (1892), [https://books.google.com/books?id=cJCCoFLIU5kC&pg=PA1 Daughters of America; Or, Women of the Century]
  • {{cite book | editor1-last=Handy | editor1-first=D. Antoinette | title=Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras | year=1998 | edition=2nd | publisher=Scarecrow Press | isbn=}}
  • {{cite book | editor1-last=Hine | editor1-first=Darlene Clark | editor1-link=Darlene Clark Hine | title=Black Women in America | year=2005 | edition=2nd | publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=}}
  • {{cite book | editor1-first=Paula E. | editor1-last=Hyman | editor2-first=Deborah Dash | editor2-last=Moore | title=Jewish women in America: an historical encyclopedia | location=New York | publisher=Routledge | year=1997}} 2 vols.
  • Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary (3 vols)
  • {{Cite book|editor-last1=James|editor-first1=Edward T.|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw01jame|url-access=registration|title=Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary|year=1971|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0-674-62731-8|oclc=167545|volume=1}}
  • {{Cite book|editor-last1=James|editor-first1=Edward T.|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame|url-access=registration|title=Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary|year=1971|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0-674-62731-8|oclc=221275644|volume=2}}
  • {{Cite book|editor-last1=James|editor-first1=Edward T.|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00jame|url-access=registration|title=Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary|year=1971|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0-674-62731-8|oclc=221275644|volume=3}}
  • Leonard, John W. (1914), [https://books.google.com/books?id=PMQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA7 Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary ...]
  • {{cite book | editor1-first=Judy Barrett | editor1-last=Litoff | editor2-first=Judith | editor2-last=McDonnell | title=European immigrant women in the United States: a biographical dictionary | location=New York | publisher=Garland Pub. | year=1994}}
  • {{cite web|editor-last1=McLeod|editor-first1=Mary|editor-last2=Rosner|editor-first2=Victoria|title=Pioneering Women of American Architecture|publisher=Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation|url=https://pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org}}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Ruiz |editor1-first=Vicki L. |editor2-first=Virginia Sánchez |editor2-last=Korrol |date=2006 |title=Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia |publisher=Indiana University Press |oclc= |isbn= }}
  • Sewall, May Wright (1894), [https://books.google.com/books?id=OdkPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA8 The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Resume ..., Volume 2]
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Sicherman |editor1-first=Barbara |editor2-first=Carol Hurd |editor2-last=Green |title=Notable American Women: The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary |location=Cambridge, MA |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |date=1980 |isbn=978-0-674-62733-8 |oclc=834112895 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0 }}
  • {{cite book | last1=Willard | first1=F. E. | last2=Livermore | first2=M. A. R. | title=A woman of the century: Fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life | location=Buffalo | publisher=Moulton | year=1893}}
  • Magazine: [https://books.google.com/books?id=UJdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA2 The Idler, Volume 6], 1895

==By state, city or region==

  • [https://archive.org/details/notablewomenofst00john Notable Women of St. Louis], 1914, Mrs. Chas. P. Johnson
  • [https://archive.org/details/sketchesofrepres00howe Representative Women of New England], 1904, ed. Julia Ward Howe, New England Historical Publishing Company
  • [https://archive.org/details/womenofwestserie00binh Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America], 1928, Max Binheim and Charles A Elvin, Publishers Press. Now on Wikisource: *Women of the West
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=8FIUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5 Prominent Women of Texas], 1896, Elizabeth Brooks
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=AAoTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA4 Women of the South Distinguished in Literature], 1860, Mary Forrest
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6wQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5 The Living Female Writers of the South], 1871, Mary T. Tardy

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Periodicals

=Newsmedia=

  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=UJdEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA2 The Idler, Volume 6], 1895
  • Women's Wear Daily/WWD via EBSCO or ProQuest with [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/ Wikipedia Library bundle].

=Academic journals=

Available in JSTOR with the [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/ Wikipedia Library bundle]:

  • Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity (1987 - 2013)
  • Black Women, Gender + Families (2007 - 2012)
  • Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal (1990 - 2011)
  • Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire (1995 - 2017)
  • Clio. Women, Gender, History (2013 - 2019)
  • Debate Feminista (1990 - 2017)
  • DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (2014 - 2019)
  • Early Modern Women (2006 - 2017)
  • Estudos Feministas (1992 - 2020)
  • Feminist Formations (2010 - 2015)
  • NWSA Journal 1988 - 2009)
  • Feminist German Studies (2018 - 2020)
  • Women in German Yearbook (1985 - 2017)
  • Feminist Media Histories (2015)
  • Feminist Review (1979 - 2017)
  • Feminist Studies (1972 - 2021)
  • Feminist Teacher (1984 - 2018)
  • Frauen und Film (1974 - 2011)
  • Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (1975 - 2020)
  • Gender and Development (1995 - 2013)
  • Focus on Gender (1993 - 1994)
  • Gender and Society (1987 - 2017)
  • Hypatia (1986 - 2015)
  • International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (2008 - 2017)
  • Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (1985 - 2021)
  • Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005 - 2015)
  • Legacy (1984 - 2020)
  • Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism (2000 - 2017)
  • Nouvelles Questions Féministes (1981 - 2017)
  • Questions Féministes (1977 - 1980)
  • Off Our Backs (1970 - 2008)
  • Race, Gender & Class (1995 - 2017)
  • Race, Sex & Class (1993 - 1994)
  • Signs (1975 - 2015)
  • Studies in Popular Culture (1977 - 2019)
  • Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (1982 - 2015)
  • U.S.-Japan Women's Journal (2003 - 2017)
  • U.S.-Japan Women's Journal. English Supplement (1991 - 2002)
  • Woman's Art Journal (1980 - 2017)
  • Women, Gender, and Families of Color (2013 - 2020)
  • The Women's Review of Books (1983 - 2017)
  • Women's Studies International (1982 - 1984)
  • International Supplement to the Women's Studies Quarterly (1982)
  • Women's Studies Quarterly (1981 - 2019)
  • Women's Studies Newsletter (1972 - 1980)

Available in Project Muse, access by request at the Wikipedia Library:

  • ''Black Women, Gender & Families
  • Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal
  • Camera Obscura
  • Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
  • differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
  • Early Modern Women
  • Feminist Formations
  • Feminist German Studies
  • Feminist Teacher
  • Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
  • Hypatia
  • IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
  • Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
  • Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism
  • Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues
  • Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International
  • philoSOPHIA
  • Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
  • U.S.-Japan Women's Journal
  • Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture
  • Women, Gender, and Families of Color
  • Women in French Studies
  • WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly

Red links

WiR's index of red link lists, both crowd-sourced and drawn from Wikidata. Of particular interest here is:

See also

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