Announcements

July 10, 2009

Survey on the Use of Women Writers Online in Research and Teaching

The WWP has begun a review of how readers use our online collection, Women Writers Online, in research and teaching, and of their attitudes toward digital research. The results of this review will guide a major project to overhaul the interface and features of Women Writers Online. As part of this work we are seeking input from WWO readers and scholars, librarians, and others working in the field of early modern women's studies on their use of digital resources; we also welcome responses from individuals who do not currently subscribe to Women Writers Online. The survey is available here.

February 3, 2009

Women Writers Online Free for Women's History Month

This year again in celebration of Women's History Month, Women Writers Online will be free and open to the public.

February 1, 2009

Women Writers Project Joins the Brown University Library

We are very pleased to announce that the WWP is now part of the Brown University Library. This move is part of a larger reorganization which brings several of Brown's digital humanities groups into a closer working relationship. For the WWP, the change will enable us to work more closely with programmers and metadata specialists within the library, and to collaborate on interface development, research tools, and digitization projects. For WWP subscribers there will be no change in licensing, access terms, or contact information. We look forward to working with our new colleagues and hope the benefits of this opportunity will be visible in Women Writers Online before long.

September 2, 2008

Publication of New Texts

We are pleased to announce the publication of thirty-eight new texts as part of Women Writers Online. With the addition of these texts, the WWO collection now contains more than three hundred works from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Notable highlights of these latest additions are—at long last—Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621), Charlotte Lennox's The Lady's Museum (1760-61), and Judith Sargent Murray's The Gleaner (1798). Other authors represented include Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet, Lady Eleanor Davies, Eliza Lucy Leonard, Katherine Philips, Ellen Tayor, Catherine Williams, and Mary Wollestonecraft. A complete list of new titles is available here.

Advanced Topics in TEI Encoding: A WWP seminar series for scholars

The WWP has received a two-year grant of $196K from the NEH to fund a series of six advanced seminars in scholarly text encoding. Building on our current NEH-funded seminar series, this new series provides intensive engagement with more specific topics such as manuscript encoding. Small groups of participants will receive detailed consultation on new or ongoing projects. This seminar series will begin in summer 2009. A call for proposals will be posted here shortly.

Representing Early Modern Persons

The WWP has received a one-year grant of $50K from the NEH to explore the encoding and representation of information about persons in early modern texts. As part of this grant we will be developing ways of classifying and describing personal references that will help readers engage more deeply with the texts in Women Writers Online: for instance, by permitting them to distinguish between scriptural, classical, fictional, and historical references, and by providing basic biographical information about persons in the WWO collection.