Feminist Literary History and Digital Humanities
Kathryn Holland In her discussion of Donna Haraway’s “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective,” Ross notes Haraway’s assertion “that we should respond to this recontextualization of scientific values and practices not by ‘holding out for a feminist version of objectivity,’ but by creating ‘an earthwide network of connections, including the … Read more
In her article “Digital Humanities for Social Good” on the data mapping project Torn Apart/Separados, McKenzie quotes Jacqueline Wernimont on the commitments of some DH research: “there has always been a social justice element within digital humanities. Some of the oldest and most well-known projects like The Orlando Project and the Women Writers Project have always been engaged . … Read more
Here, Risam identifies Orlando as “a watershed project for feminist recovery in digital humanities in general and in digital literary studies in particular.” Roopika Risam, “Introduction: Gender, Globalization, and the Digital”, in Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 8 (2015).
Thanks to our publisher, Cambridge University Press, Orlando is now available to Wikipedia editors via The Wikipedia Library. We are pleased that access to the textbase is growing and look forward to seeing its materials used in articles throughout the encyclopedia.
We are delighted to announce that two online sources for feminist literary studies, Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present and Women Writers Online, will once again be free during March in celebration of Women’s History Month. Orlando is a literary and cultural history generated from original scholarship about the lives … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES This batch of new entries remarkably reflects the international aspect of British women’s writing. We have here authors of English, Irish, Welsh, New Zealand, Nigerian, and totally unknown origins and allegiances; we have careers largely pursued in Italy, Mexico, New Mexico, New York, and all around the world; we have intimate involvement … Read more
As part of our shift to Orlando 2.0, we have invited scholars of women’s writing and digital humanities to join our editorial and advisory boards. We will be working with them on such initiatives as the peer-reviewed process of external contributions to the Orlando textbase and a collection of print volumes drawn from and in … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Grace, Lady Mildmay: 1552 – 1620: An amateur medical practitioner who produced medical notes, recipes, and religious writing informed by her own lived experiences. Grisell Murray, 1692 – 1759: A Scottish memoirist who focused much of her writing, produced for private circulation, on the lives of her parents. Radagunda Roberts, c. 1730 … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Grace, Lady Mildmay: 1552 – 1620: An amateur medical practitioner who produced medical notes, recipes, and religious writing informed by her own lived experiences. Grisell Murray, 1692 – 1759: A Scottish memoirist who focused much of her writing, produced for private circulation, on the lives of her parents. Radagunda Roberts, c. 1730 … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Elizabeth Isham, 1609 – 1654: An unmarried member of the English gentry who completed a memoir and papers on medicine and religion, all in manuscript form. Anne Dacier, 1645 – 1720: A French classical scholar, editor, and translator who gained a strong reputation in England as well as France for her own … Read more