Feminist Literary History and Digital Humanities
Proposals are invited for speakers at a graduate student workshop on material cultures of writing from the Enlightenment to Modernity. We ask you to send in ideas for 10-minute presentations inspired by any object in the Victoria and Albert Museum concerned with the material culture of writing. This might include paper, ink, furniture, tools, printers, typewriters and … Read more
The third Elizabeth Montagu Network colloquium entitled Writing Materials; Women of Letters from Enlightenment to Modernity will be held in King’s College, London on Thursday 29th and the V&A on Friday 30th November. This exciting conference brings together experts in material culture, curators and innovators in digitising the humanities. Plenary speakers include Professors Dena Goodman and Peter … Read more
New Author Entries Susanna Hopton, 1627-1709, theological and devotional writer whose canon is still not clearly established. She was much concerned to adapt what she saw as the best of Roman Catholic devotional practices to serve the needs of the Anglican church. Marie-Catherine de Villedieu, 1640?-1683, French writer who launched her high-profile career as Marie-Catherine … Read more
In 9 June 2012 the three Orlando principals, Susan Brown, Pat Clements, and Isobel Grundy, gave a highly successful plenary address and demonstration under the title “’The Most Unaccountable of Machinery’: The OrlandoProject produces a textbase of one’s own”.
In March 2012, Cambridge University Press agreed to mark Women’s History Month by posting the Orlando textbase on open access. During this month 76,525 screens in the textbase were accessed in 2,374 sessions lasting on average eight and a half minutes each.
In his article, Matthew Kirschenbaum mentioned Orlando as a key achievement in collaboration, alongside the TEI. His article also serves to remind us that the year of Orlando’s first publication, 2006, was also the year of the Digital Humanities Initiative. Read more here. What Is Digital humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments? Matthew G. Kirschenbaum … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Lady Lucy Herbert, 1668 or 1669 – 1744, Roman Catholic prioress and devotional writer, sister of Lady Nithsdale following. Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale, 1672-1749, letter-writer, remembered for her account of her daring rescue of her condemned Jacobite husband from the Tower of London, sister of Lady Lucy Herbert above. Ellis Cornelia … Read more
Following the campaign to save the former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital for Women in the Euston Road, London, the public-service-employee union Unison was given the go-ahead to build its new centre on the site. However, the core of this splendid building dating from 1890 has been preserved to become the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Gallery. Here … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Elizabeth Bathurst, 1655-91, colonial American Quaker, who wrote a number of works that do not survive, and published a spiritual autobiography which seems have displeased the meeting of Friends in Philadelphia. Jane Johnson, 1706-59, letter-writer, poet, author of little teaching books for her children and of the earliest identified original fairy-story in … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Bathsheba Bowers, 1671-1718, colonial American Quaker, who wrote a number of works that do not survive, and published a spiritual autobiography which seems have displeased the meeting of Friends in Philadelphia. Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809, self-made man of labouring-class origins who became a playwright, translator, novelist, and autobiographer: a leading figure among the … Read more