Feminist Literary History and Digital Humanities
New Author Entries Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit, c. 1510-78, early Protestant compiler of a book of private prayers (including hymns, prayers, and metrical psalms), some perhaps of her own writing. Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, diarist and letter-writer whose place in history is owed to her meticulously sketched and vividly described accounts of the colony of … Read more
New Author Entries Ann Fisher, 1719-78, grammarian (uniquely for a woman at this date) and educational writer. Margaret Holford the elder, ?1757-1834, novelist and playwright: mother of a poet of the same name, one of whose works is still often wrongly ascribed to her. Margaret Holford the younger (later Holford), 1778-1852, poet whose first romance … Read more
The Orlando Project is experimenting with new ways of supporting research online. Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present provides information about more than 1200 writers, their texts, and the times in which they lived and wrote. It is designed to offer new ways of approaching literary research online. … Read more
New Author Entries Elizabeth Walker, 1623-90. Miscellaneous religious writer and memoirist. Elizabeth Burnet, 1661-1709. Diarist, letter-writer, Latitudinarian devotional writer and political lobbyist. Sarah, Lady Piers, 1667 or after – 1719. Poet writing on theatrical and political topics. Elisabeth Wast, before 1670 – before 1724. Scottish religious autobiographer. Standard reference sources give her name as “West” … Read more
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The materials listed below were added to Orlando in January 2009. For more information on Orlando visit http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline New Author Entries Elizabeth Melvill (perhaps 1575 to 1640), Scottish … Read more
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The materials listed below were added to Orlando in July 2008. For more information on Orlando visit http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline New Author Entries Mary Oxlie, fl. 1616. Either English or … Read more
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The materials listed below were added to Orlando in January 2008. For more information on Orlando visit http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline New Author Entries Margaret Roper, 1505-44, Renaissance letter-writer and translator … Read more
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The materials listed below were added to Orlando in July 2007. For more information on Orlando visit http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline New Author Entries Elizabeth Shirley, 1566 – 1641, author of … Read more
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The materials listed below were added to Orlando in January 2007. For more information on Orlando visit http://www.cambridge.org/online/orlandoonline New Author Entries Anne Locke, c. 1533 – maybe c. … Read more
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is an on-line cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. The writers listed below – as British women, men, and other women – had their own entries in the initial release of Orlando in June 2006. More entries … Read more