Announcements
March 7, 2011
New Women Writers Online interface launched as a public beta
We are excited to announce the beta launch of the newly redesigned Women Writers Online. This early beta version represents the first step in redeveloping the WWO interface and moving WWO onto a platform of modern XML publishing tools. While the new interface still has a number of limitations and bug, it also retains and improves on many features of the existing WWO, including full-text searching, searching on bibliographic data, and a clear reading interface.
The new WWO interface is just the beginning: we plan to add a number of important features during the next year, including freely available contextual and biographical essays, contemporary reviews and reception materials, greater reader control over the display of the reading text, and new tools for exploration such as maps and other visualizations.
Both the new and old interfaces will remain available during the month of March 2012. The old WWO will be retired permanently in early April.
March 1, 2012
Free Women Writers Online access
In celebration of Women's History Month, Women Writers Online will be freely available during the month of March. We invite you to explore the 334 texts in the collection!
July 27, 2011
WWP receives two NEH grants
The WWP is pleased and honored to receive two grants from the NEH. We have been awarded $249,947 for "Taking TEI Further, a three-year series of institutes on advanced topics in text encoding, including XSLT for humanists, customizing the TEI, and teaching with TEI. This project begins in March 2012 and a schedule of events will be posted early in 2012. We have also been awarded a joint NEH/DFG grant in support of a symposium on data modeling in the humanities, in partnership with the University of Würzburg, which will be held at Brown University in spring 2012.
March 1, 2011
Free Women Writers Online access
In celebration of Women's History Month, Women Writers Online will be freely available during the month of March. We invite you to explore the 334 texts in the collection!
December 30, 2010
Publication of new texts
The WWP is pleased to announce the addition of twelve new texts to Women Writers Online. Highlights include three dramas by Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish's Philosophical Letters (1664), Sarah Stone's A Complete Practice of Midwifery (1737), and Hannah Kilham's Memoir of the Late Hannah Kilham (1837). With these additions, the WWO collection now contains more than 330 texts from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.
To see a list of the texts recently added to Women Writers Online, visit our new titles page. Or visit our full title list for a complete list of all the titles currently included in WWO.
November 17, 2010
Call for proposals: Women in the Archives 2011
The call for proposals for Women in the Archives: Organizing Knowledge is now available. Proposals are due January 15, 2011.
September 21, 2010
Save the date: Women in the Archives 2011
The fourth annual Women in the Archives conference will be held on April 15-16, 2011 at Brown University. Save the date and watch for the call for participation later this fall.
September 1, 2010
WWP receives major NEH award
The Women Writers Project has received funding for a three-year, $200K project from the National Endowment for the Humanities, focusing on the reception and readership of early women’s writing. Starting in January 2011, the WWP will undertake a collaborative research project to investigate the role that women’s literary writing and its reception played in the formation of Anglophone literary culture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The WWP will digitize a range of sources, including material from printed reviews, anthologies, and early literary histories, as well as manuscript materials like diaries, letters, and commonplace books. Working with these materials, the project’s core collaborators will produce an interconnected group of scholarly articles exploring the cultural geographies of women’s literary reception between 1770 and 1830. These peer-reviewed articles will be published online as part of the WWP’s open-access collection of exhibits, articles, and contextual information on women’s writing. The source materials will also be made publicly accessible through an exploratory interface so that other scholars can further extend and contribute to this line of research in the future.
More information can be found at the project description page.
May 25, 2010
WWP announces new workshop series
The Women Writers Project is pleased to announce a new series of workshops on topics in TEI encoding and tools for digital humanists. These workshops are aimed at humanities faculty, librarians, students, and anyone interested in getting a strong introduction to digital humanities concepts, methods, and tools. Each workshop combines hands-on practice with discussion and lectures, and participants are encouraged to work with their own project materials. These small group events offer a wonderful opportunity to learn about other digital projects as well as to master important methods and concepts in an exploratory setting. Students and members of the TEI consortium receive a 33% discount on registration.
More information, including detailed workshop descriptions and registration information, can be found at our workshops page.
January 4, 2010
Zotero integration comes to Women Writers Online
All Women Writers Online texts now feature integration with the Zotero bibliographic citation manager, a free extension for the Firefox Web browser developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Readers who currently use Zotero to manage research sources can now automatically add WWO texts to their Zotero libraries simply by clicking the book icon that appears in the Firefox navigation bar; readers who do not use Zotero will see no visible changes to the normal appearance of WWO texts.
To learn more about Zotero, or to download the plugin for Firefox, visit the offical Zotero site.
Publication of new texts
The WWP is pleased to announce the addition of fourteen new texts to Women Writers Online. Highlights include Anne Cooke’s translation of The Sermons of Barnardine Ochine (1570), Eliza Haywood’s The British Recluse (1722), Sarah Pennington’s An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to Her Absent Daughters (1773), Susanna Rowson’s The Inquisitor; or the Invisible Rambler (1794), and the complete text of Charlotte Smith’s The Old Manor House (1793). With these additions, the WWO collection now contains more than 320 texts from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.
To see a list of the texts recently added to Women Writers Online, visit our new titles page. Or visit our full title list for a complete list of all the titles currently included in WWO.
