The nineteenth-century dictionaries of Russian women writers: (not only) general bibliographical and literary historical principles

Abstract

The article presents the oldest dictionaries of the Russian women writers (bibliographical data and literary historical context): 1. Bibliographical Catalogue of the Russian Women Writers (1826) by Stepan Russov; 2. Materials to the History of the Russian Women Writers by Mikhail Makarov (published in the periodical “Damskij zhurnal” 1830, 1833); 3. Bibliographical Dictionary of the Russian Women Writers (1889) by Nikolai Golitsyn; 4. Our female writers. The dictionary of the Russian women writers (1891) by Stepan Ponomaryov. The first dictionary of the Russian writers (Nikolai Novikov, 1772) serves as the interpretative context. The structure and contents of the dictionaries are discussed.