中國近現代報刊中蘊含有大量的以文學作品和文學評論為主體的文學史料，乃中國近現代文學研究的主要史料來源之一。然而在五四新文學產生之前，中國近現代報刊即早已發軔，這批報刊內容與價值如何？與歷史和文學有何關係？值得探討。為集中研究主題，本文擬先從著錄清末至五四前期報刊之目錄、報刊通覽中搜羅整理出與女性報刊相關之資料，再鉤庋資料中發刊辭、論述、專欄等相關言論，結合此段時期歷史，冀自零金碎玉中勾勒女性報刊在此政治、文化多變時期呈現女性有哪些新角色的產生，以及舊有角色嬗變情形，進而了解報刊與女性文學的發展有何關係。透過此一研究過程，發現在以文學作品與文學評論為主體的文學史料之近現代報刊之前，女性報刊實與政治及女性歷史文化發展關係密切，與文學關係亦隱隱一線，伏於其中。而在運用報刊作文學研究時，有關資料掌握的問題，更凸顯出文學史料數位化典藏的重要與迫切性。

There are the literary history documents in Chinese modern newspapers with a vast amount of literary works and comments mainly, and these history documents are one of the sources of Chinese modern literary research. However, before the new literature of the May Fourth Movement having, they had been set in Chinese modern newspapers, and what is the value and content in these newspapers? Is it concerned with the history and literature? It is worth to approach! For centralizing the subject of the research, we plan to record the concerned catalogue and guide in newspapers from the end of Ching Dynasty to earlier stage of the May Fourth Movement which concerned with female information in the newspapers, then, find the concerned foreword in the periodical and special column, and combine the history of this period. We hope to show female’s new roles in the time of political and cultural change from female newspapers, and the change of old roles; and further to understand the relationship developing between newspapers and female literature. Through the process of research, we find female newspapers are concerned closely with political and female historical and cultural development before literary documents in modern newspapers with literary works and comments showing, and it is concerned with literature faintly. To the question of handling concerned information of literary research with newspapers, it will show the importance and the urgency of making the collection of literary documents digitalized.