Biography british writers association

The British Women Writers Association (BWWA) and its annual conference (the BWWC) seek to bring more women/womxn from the margins to the center of literary history by promoting scholarship on and the teaching of long 18th- and 19th-century British women writers in diverse global and cultural contexts.

The 2025 conference which will be taking place May 15th-17th, 2025, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Please see the hosts’ conference page for all information!

A History of the BWWC, by Co-Founders Pamela Corpron Parker and Cindy LaCom

The Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers originated in 1991 when a group of graduate students from the Universities of Oregon and Washington noted and were troubled by the lack of presentations on women writers during a regional British Studies conference.

In between sessions, we discussed the possibility of organizing a conference focused solely on women’s writing—particularly those writers who have been histo