Feminist Literary History and Digital Humanities
orladmin This year, Orlando‘s free access begins on International Women’s Day and marks the first days of its new interface, developed by its team of researchers, technical personnel, and students. To begin, log in to the textbase with this information: User: OrlandoOpenEmail: OrlandoOpen@ualberta.caPassword: free-Orlando For our discussion of this new edition of Orlando, read its Preface. To … Read more
We’re delighted to confirm that Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present will again be free in March, in celebration of Women’s History Month. This year, free access to the Orlando textbase begins 8 March, on International Women’s Day, and will enable users to explore its new interface. In it, Orlando‘s material has … Read more
This new podcast takes the Orlando textbase as its inspiration for a series of interviews, with emerging and established scholars, about the lives and work of women writers from the medieval period to our own. Curious about what women’s writing is and why it matters? Explore the podcast’s website and its first episodes, on the … Read more
Our revisions to the Orlando interface continue apace, and we’re at work on an exciting new task: the collection of images for author entries, some shared with permission and others in the public domain. These include author portraits along with images of their texts and places associated with their lives and bodies of work. We … Read more
This summer, our Undergraduate Research Assistants are blogging about their experience with the project. First up, Hannah Stewart from the University of Guelph: From the moment I found out that I was going to be an undergraduate research assistant working with the Orlando Project this summer, I was ecstatic. I’m an English major, an aspiring … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Mary Mollineux, c. 1651 – 1696: A north-country Quaker who directed her poetry to literary as well as religious ends. Alison Cockburn, 1713 – 1794: She has the place in the story of the Scottish ballad revival and wrote other occasional poems, letters, and memoirs. Ann Thicknesse, 1737 – 1824: wife of … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Lady Hester Pulter, 1605 – 1678: major poet who has remained unknown until fairly recently because she seems not to have circulated her work, even in manuscript. Margaret Calderwood, 1715 – 1774: Scotswoman whose journal of travelling to Continental Europe includes trenchant observations about England. She also wrote an unpublished novel and … Read more
NEW AUTHOR ENTRIES Elizabeth Grymeston, before 1563-1601/4. Her single surviving text, published soon after her death, is a literary-historical landmark whether read as conduct literature, essays, or a mother’s legacy. Olaudah Equiano, c. 1745-1797. Afro-British sailor, explorer, and autobiographer. His memoirs are the most important among his various abolitionist writings. Anna Maria Mackenzie, by 1760-after … Read more
New Author Entries Rose Hickman, 1526-1613: Protestant middle-class Londoner whose memoirs of the turbulent Reformation years were preserved by her descendants as “Certaine old storyes recorded by an aged gentlewoman”. Sarah, Lady Cowper, 1644-1723: diarist, commonplace-book writer, and abridger (for a daughter-in-law) of a history of the world from biblical times to the present. Mary, … Read more
On 10 June 2015 Dr. Patricia Clements, founding director of the Orlando Project, received an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Alberta. Dr. Clements, along with thirteen other outstanding individuals, participated in celebrating and encouraging the University of Alberta graduating class of June 2015.