HIST 358: The Remarkable Body of Marie Antoinette (HC)

Some collections are available online for eighteenth century printed texts.  They reproduce every page in a book and are searchable by word and phrase.

Many eighteenth century primary sources have been edited and published as printed texts.  You can find these kinds of titles in Tripod and in WorldCat.  Use such subject terms as "sources" or "correspondence" along with your topic:

             Example: france revolution 1789 sources [as Subjects]  AND women [as Keyword]

Results include:

             Women's travel writings in revolutionary France. Pickering & Chatto, 2007-.    Among the texts included are: v. 3. Letters containing a sketch of the scenes which passed in various departments of France during the tyranny of Robespierre by Helen Maria Williams (1796) and A ten years' residence in France during the severest part of the revolution, from the year 1787 to 1797 by Charlotte West (1821).  

            Cahiers de doléances des femmes en 1789, et autres textes. Des Femmes, 1981. Presents pamphlets reflecting grievances expressed by women.  See an English translation of one of the pamphlets online.

Selected primary source titles in print in the Tri-Colleges include:

1)  Collections of primary texts in anthologies can be good for browsing. They touch on many different issues, often excerpting brief passages from full works that you can find in the tricolleges or through interlibrary loan.

2)  Series titles are one place to find modern editions of eighteenth century writings. Examples include:

Major series of early modern women's writings
Other Voice in Early Modern Europe               A series of primary source translations by or about women.  Individual titles are listed in Tripod.  Authors lived from the late Middle Ages through the first half of the 18th century.

Major publisher of 18th century writings and current scholarship
Voltaire Foundation (website)  -   For holdings in the tricollege libraries published by the Foundation, use searches like this:                                                 "voltaire foundation" [Keyword]  AND (sources OR correspondance) [Subjects]           

Often books printed in the 18th century are kept in libraries' rare book collections.  You can go to Bryn Mawr to see these books.  Contact librarians Eric Pomroy or Marianne Hansen at Bryn Mawr to tell them about your research needs before going to Special Collections.   See the Special Collections page for hours and contact information.  See also these resources as well as the Tripod catalog for titles at Bryn Mawr:

 French Revolution Pamphlets

 Books Relating to 18th Century France

 Beyond the Text: Illustrations in Eighteenth-Century French Novels (Exhibit at BMC, 2011)

 Selected titles include:

Primary sources, accounts and other kinds of documents written at the time of an event or era, allow a nuanced and detailed understanding of historical issues.  Sources can take many different forms.