ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that scholarship on early modern women's letters is very much alive and flourishing. Letters represent the most ubiquitous form of writing by women from the early modern period, a fact which the essays in this volume judiciously exploit in order to deepen and broaden our understanding of the multifarious roles women played in politics, religion, science, education. A resource such as Palladio is of interest, because WEMLO would be able to feed in its own dataset and produce visualizations of women's letter networks. Building upon the development of earlier print and digital infrastructures, WEMLO will offer its users new search and discovery tools and a centralized place to locate distributed historical documents by early modern women. Looking to the future, Harris encourages scholars, as they reconceived women's history, to access not only letters but also other under-used sources such as wills and household accounts.
