The Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore Archive

View and Download Data About the WLCB

This site is built around several datasets, some regarding the WLCB as an organization and a large dataset of Club member publications (the Virtual Library). All data is available for browsing and download to be used by researchers, scholars, and students. Data includes member names, addresses, titles and presenters on programs, names of Club members holding leadership positions by year, bibliographical (metadata) information about novels, poems, and articles published by Club members, and thousands of pages of manuscript text written by Club members. This data was painstakingly collected by the WLCB project team over a period of several years from documents like these:

Based on dues records and membership notebooks, this map created by Clara Love shows the flourishing of Baltimore literary culture in the area northwest of the city center at the turn of the century, as well as growing networks of female authorship developed over the course of the Club’s first three decades in existence.

Organizational Data

Data pertaining to the WLCB is held in the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore collection at the Maryland Center for History and Culture and was transcribed over a period of several years. Club Records are more fully described on their own pages under the About the Club tab.

Virtual Library Collection Metadata

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Here, you can download the collection metadata pertaining to the Virtual Library–the 1,000+ publications produced by members of the WLCB. To browse the Virtual Library and filter contents by various metadata fields, we suggest you go to the Virtual Library page on this site. Use the “CSV” or “Excel” button below to download the filtered metadata you see on the page in your preferred format.