Feminist Literary History and Digital Humanities
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
We’re happy to share news about one of our works in progress: we’re overhauling the Orlando textbase interface, making significant changes to it for the first time since the textbase went live in 2006. We’re about to begin a key stage in the revision process: user testing. And we aim to gather a wide array … 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
In early April, Margaret Atwood delivered the 10th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture, sponsored by the University of Alberta’s Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de Littérature Canadienne (CLC). Her lecture, “The Burgess Shale: The Canadian Literary Landscape of the 1960s,” will be broadcast by CBC Radio’s Ideas later this year. Here is Atwood at the event with the … Read more
A paper co-authored by Susan Brown and John Simpson was presented at IEEE BigData 2013 on October 8, 2013, in Santa Clara, California. The paper, titled “The Curious Identity of Michael Field and its Implications for Humanities Research with the Semantic Web”, was presented by Simpson in the Humanities and BigData Workshop to an audience … Read more
> 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
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
