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Writers with Entries: January 2014 Update

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New Author Entries Anne Thérèse de Lambert, 1647-1733: French writer of conduct books and comment on the status of women, highly influential in England. Mary Caesar, 1677-1741: in beautiful handwriting but atrocious spelling, she kept for more than twenty years an extraordinary journal of her own and her husband’s intense involvement in the Jacobite cause, … Read more

Women’s Print History Project, 1750-1830

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Dr Michelle Levy of Simon Fraser University is using data from Orlando for The Women’s Print History Project, 1750-1830 (awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant), the first comprehensive bibliographical database of women’s contributions to print for this crucial period. This project will build on the now extensive body of qualitative historical scholarship on women’s writing to … Read more

Open access for Women’s History Month 2014

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Once again The Orlando Project was delighted to celebrate Women’s History Month by making the textbase freely available for the month of March 2014, courtesy of Cambridge University Press.

Jacqueline Wernimont in Digital Humanities Quarterly

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Wernimont takes Orlando, together with Women Writers Online, as “exemplary instances of digital literary scholarship.” Orlando’s DTDs or interpretive markup, she writes, are tools which are generative and transformative, not merely declarative. They “can be read as paratextual with respect to the absent primary texts — the literary texts written by women that Orlando articles … Read more

Melanie Bigold in ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

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“Like most scholars today, I make frequent use of digital databases . . . . Most of these sessions have left me jaded about the motivations (grant capture before research questions) and limitations (potential obsolescence) of such initiatives. Orlando is, and hopefully will remain, one of the exceptions in this landscape. . . . the … Read more

Anna Williams

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> Anna Williams. Anna Williams was an eighteenth-century translator and poet, who was totally blind from some time in her mid-thirties. She lived for years in a room on the ground floor of this house, rented by Samuel Johnson. Best-known among her slender oeuvre is a miscellany or anthology of contemporary poems. Her projected dictionary … Read more

contents updates

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Writers with Entries January 2013 Update New Author Entries Anna Williams, 1706-83, translator, poet, and anthologist, whose ambition of compiling a dictionary of scientific terms (in which she was an expert) came to nothing, probably because she was by then totally blind. Lady Anna Miller, 1741-81, travel writer, patron of poetry, and anthologist. Tabitha Tenney, … Read more