Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Biographical resources

Lists of biographical dictionaries

 * WiR's list of fully accessible biographical dictionaries.
 * List of biographical dictionaries of women writers in English

Books

 * Annual editions thereafter.
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Australia

 * , under development, now over 7,000 items
 * The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

Canada

 * Types of Canadian Women, 1903, ed. Henry James Morgan
 * Woman's Who's Who of America, 1915, ed. John William Leonard (Canada and US)

Denmark

 * Over 1,100 profiles of qualified Danish women in a variety of sectors, compiled as a basis for furthering their careers and success
 * , 1,924 biographies in book form and online (in Danish)

Great Britain

 * English Female Artists, 1876, Ellen C. Clayton, Tinsley Brothers. Also Vol 2. See English Female Artists for red links
 * The Women of England, their Social Duties and Domestic Habits, 1939, Mrs. Ellis; Fisher, Son, & Co.

Netherlands

 * , under continued development in Dutch

Sweden

 * , under development since 2018 (in Swedish and English)

Switzerland

 * under development in French, German and Italian with many biographies of women

United States

 * Hanaford, Phebe (1892), Daughters of America; Or, Women of the Century
 * 2 vols.
 * Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary (3 vols)
 * Leonard, John W. (1914), Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary ...
 * Sewall, May Wright (1894), The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Resume ..., Volume 2
 * Magazine: The Idler, Volume 6, 1895
 * 2 vols.
 * Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary (3 vols)
 * Leonard, John W. (1914), Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary ...
 * Sewall, May Wright (1894), The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Resume ..., Volume 2
 * Magazine: The Idler, Volume 6, 1895
 * Leonard, John W. (1914), Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary ...
 * Sewall, May Wright (1894), The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Resume ..., Volume 2
 * Magazine: The Idler, Volume 6, 1895
 * Sewall, May Wright (1894), The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Resume ..., Volume 2
 * Magazine: The Idler, Volume 6, 1895
 * Sewall, May Wright (1894), The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Resume ..., Volume 2
 * Magazine: The Idler, Volume 6, 1895
 * Magazine: The Idler, Volume 6, 1895
 * Magazine: The Idler, Volume 6, 1895
 * Magazine: The Idler, Volume 6, 1895

By state, city or region

 * Notable Women of St. Louis, 1914, Mrs. Chas. P. Johnson
 * Representative Women of New England, 1904, ed. Julia Ward Howe, New England Historical Publishing Company
 * 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
 * Prominent Women of Texas, 1896, Elizabeth Brooks
 * Women of the South Distinguished in Literature, 1860, Mary Forrest
 * The Living Female Writers of the South, 1871, Mary T. Tardy

Newsmedia

 * The Idler, Volume 6, 1895
 * Women's Wear Daily/WWD via EBSCO or ProQuest with Wikipedia Library bundle.

Academic journals
Available in JSTOR with the 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:
 * Dictionaries and other reference works, some of which are biographies of women