Orlando free for March 2016
For March, Women’s History Month, Orlando is open access. User id womenshistory2016 password orlando2016
News
New Directions/Directors for Orlando
We are delighted to announce that Corrinne Harol has undertaken the position of Literary Director of the Orlando Project. Dr. Harol (PhD UCLA), Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture. Areas of research interest include the intersections of literary, scientific, political, … Read more
Writers with Entries: July 2015 Updates
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 She also wrote an unpublished novel and … Read more
Writers with Entries: January 2015 Update
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
Writers with Entries: July 2014 Updates
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
Dr. Patricia Clements recipient of honorary degree
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.
Writers with Entries: January 2014 Update
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
Orlando free for Women’s History Month
The Orlando textbase was on free access for March 2015 (Women’s History Month). We hear this was much enjoyed.
Women’s Print History Project, 1750-1830
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
The Orlando Lecture Series launched
The Orlando Lecture series was launched on 4 November 2014 to celebrate the feminist achievements of the University of Alberta’s Department of English and Film Studies, including both the Orlando Project and the Orlando textbase. The inaugural lecture was delivered to a packed and appreciative audience by Larissa Lai and Rita Wong.