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We're really excited to share this new exhibit on women and crime by Emily Corrêa and Kirsten Saxton (@ktsaxton@ktsaxton)...

We're really excited to share this new exhibit on women and crime by Emily Corrêa and Kirsten Saxton (@ktsaxton@ktsaxton) https://wwp.northeastern.edu/context/#saxtontravis.crime.xml

We're so excited to share that we've added 7 new texts to WWO:...

We're so excited to share that we've added 7 new texts to WWO: https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/about/announcements.html#newwwo-2024-06-17. This also happens to be one of the largest publication sets we've done in a few years, with more than 1400 pages of women's writing.

We are really excited to share a new exhibit in Women Writers in Context, "Women Writing Spiritual Authority" by Abigail Rawleigh...

We are really excited to share a new exhibit in Women Writers in Context, "Women Writing Spiritual Authority" by Abigail Rawleigh and Laura MacGowan: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/context/#macgowanrawleigh.spirituality.xml

Happy Leap Day, everyone! We couldn't wait to announce that Women Writers Online is free now and through the whole month of March, in...

Happy Leap Day, everyone! We couldn't wait to announce that Women Writers Online is free now and through the whole month of March, in celebration of Women's History Month: https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/about/announcements.html#free-2024-02-26

We're excited to share that we have added six new texts to Women Writers Online:...

We're excited to share that we have added six new texts to Women Writers Online: https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/about/announcements.html#newwwo-2023-12-11

We're excited to share our call for teaching partners and confirm that WWO will again be free for the month of March in celebration of...

We're excited to share our call for teaching partners and confirm that WWO will again be free for the month of March in celebration of Women's History Month: https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/about/announcements.html#teaching-2023-10-25

The Women Writers Project is delighted to announce that we have released a new set of Jupyter Notebooks for training word vector models in...

The Women Writers Project is delighted to announce that we have released a new set of Jupyter Notebooks for training word vector models in Python. These notebooks grew out of the NEH-funded Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist institute series, and were developed by Avery Blankenship, WWP Research Assistant and English PhD Candidate, in collaboration with WWP staff Ash Clark and Sarah Connell, and with support from Julia Flanders, Felix Muzny, Santiago Rivas, and Yong-Yu Huang. You can download these notebooks from our GitHub repository: https://github.com/NEU-DSG/wwp-public-code-share/releases. We are grateful to the NEH for supporting this work, and to all who worked on the notebooks! Read more about the project: https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/about/announcements.html#wwvt-2023-09-06.

We are so delighted to share this new exhibit on satire in women's writing by Amanda Hiner and Elizabeth Tasker Davis!...

We are so delighted to share this new exhibit on satire in women's writing by Amanda Hiner and
Elizabeth Tasker Davis! https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/context/#hinertaskerdavis.30satire.xml

We're excited to share that we've added six new texts to Women Writers Online:...

We're excited to share that we've added six new texts to Women Writers Online: https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/about/announcements.html#newwwo-2023-06-15

We're really excited to share this blog post sharing key insights from our Antiracist Markup Practices symposium in May:...

We're really excited to share this blog post sharing key insights from our Antiracist Markup Practices symposium in May: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/antiracist-markup-practices-symposium. Thanks so much to all presenters and participants!

On May 15th the Women Writers Project will be hosting a symposium on Antiracist Markup Practices. This event will be a fully virtual...

On May 15th the Women Writers Project will be hosting a symposium on Antiracist Markup Practices. This event will be a fully virtual half-day symposium taking place between 12:00pm–4:00pm (Eastern).

We are honored to announce that Clayton McCarl, Mary Chapman, Sydney Lines, Joey Takeda, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Xóchitl M. Flores-Marical, and Caitlin Pollock will be speaking about their diverse collection of projects.

While the event is open to all, we ask that you RSVP (https://forms.gle/hVxKmjMWzYVtfiLn7) by 5pm on May 14th. To make space for informal discussions, this event will not be recorded.

If you have any questions, please email wwp@northeastern.edu. For the full schedule and more details, see the event page: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/about/events.html#seminar_2023-05-15. We are grateful to the Northeastern University Humanities Center for supporting this event!

We're really excited about the DH@Guelph summer workshops! There are lots of great topics, including a data modeling and TEI...

We're really excited about the DH@Guelph summer workshops! There are lots of great topics, including a data modeling and TEI customization workshop taught by the WWP's own Syd Bauman and Sarah Connell. Check out the full list here: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/dhguelph/summer2023/workshops

We're really excited to share this blog post by Jessica Kane, University of Michigan, about a project where student editors worked on a...

We're really excited to share this blog post by Jessica Kane, University of Michigan, about a project where student editors worked on a digital edition of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (see the students' work here: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/lab/publications/incidents/jacobs.incidents.html). She has some really insightful thoughts on the challenges of working with TEI in a large and introductory class. Check it out! https://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/kane-incidents/

Here's another way to explore the WWO collection during Women's History Month: on April Fools Day, 2017 we released the Women...

Here's another way to explore the WWO collection during Women's History Month: on April Fools Day, 2017 we released the Women Writers Online Scrabble Discovery Interface, an exciting new tool that enhances the texts in Women Writers Online by allowing users to discover the Scrabble® scores for the words in each text: https://www.wwp.neu.edu/research/projects/april1/2017/index.xhtml. Using cutting-edge XML technologies, this interface excludes non-playable words such as proper nouns, words in dialect, and non-English words. Read more about the words and texts you can discover with this tool on our blog: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/wwosdi-march/

Women Writers Online is free for #WomensHistoryMonth: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/WWP/WWO/Interested in sci-fi? Have a look at these early...

Women Writers Online is free for #WomensHistoryMonth: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/WWP/WWO/

Interested in sci-fi? Have a look at these early scientifically-fantastical works:

Margaret Cavendish’s “The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World” (1668): https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/texts/cavendish.blazing.html

Aphra Behn’s “The Emperor of the Moon” (1688): https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/texts/behn.emperor.html

Eliza Haywood’s “Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo” (1736): https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/texts/haywood.eovaai.html

Jane Barker’s “The Lining of the Patch Work Screen” was one of our earliest Women Writers Online publications:...

Jane Barker’s “The Lining of the Patch Work Screen” was one of our earliest Women Writers Online publications: https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/texts/barker.lining.html

According to @juliaflanders, Barker’s use of nested narrative was a “poster child” for a then-new encoding strategy, the TEI’s <floatingText>. The #TEI documentation still includes the WWP’s original encoding: https://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/DS.html#DSFLT

Charlotte Smith’s “Elegiac Sonnets” (https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/texts/smith.sonnets.html) gave the WWP our <elision>...

Charlotte Smith’s “Elegiac Sonnets” (https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/texts/smith.sonnets.html) gave the WWP our <elision> element. The story is immortalized in our internal documentation (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/research/publications/documentation/internal/#!/entry/elision_element)

Speaking of Smith, her “Beachy Head: With Other Poems” has our first encoded notes on other notes: https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/texts/smith.beachy.html

Anne Dowriche’s “The French Historie” had already been published (https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/texts/dowriche.french.html) when we realized that the opening poem is an acrostic! Each couplet begins with a letter spelling out the name of Dowriche’s brother, to whom the work is addressed. We began collecting information about acrostics with a specialized element: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/research/publications/documentation/internal/#!/entry/acrostic_element

Women Writers Online is free for #WomensHistoryMonth : https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/WWP/WWO/Here are some works that challenged our #TEI...

Women Writers Online is free for #WomensHistoryMonth : https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/WWP/WWO/

Here are some works that challenged our #TEI encoding and our intrepid encoders!

First, Elizabeth Sarah Gooch’s “Poems on Various Subjects” (https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/texts/gooch.poems.html), which inspired one encoder to identify and craft encoding to capture non-authorial paratexts across WWO:

“The last poem in the collection was written *to* Gooch by a Mr. Anthony Pasquin, Esq. Being so new to the WWP encoding guidelines I had to ask ‘is there anything special I do with a poem not written by the author?’”
― Anna Kroon, “To the Right Honourable, Virtuous, Heroical Reader” (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/to-the-reader/)

3. The call for contributions was initially circulated by email, but we’ve now made it visible on our website...

3. The call for contributions was initially circulated by email, but we’ve now made it visible on our website (https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/about/announcements.html#wwic-call-2023-03-02). We'd be really delighted if you were interested in submitting an exhibit—please reach out to us if so!

Finally, we should mention that the WWP will shortly be announcing an upcoming workshop on the representation of racialized identity in markup systems like TEI; we’ll be sharing dates and details quite soon.

We hope this helps to answer your question—please do reach out to us with any thoughts on other ways we can make authors of color more visible in WWO, or ways to support conversations about race in early women's literature.

2. In the past five years we’ve also had detailed internal discussions about how to make women of color more visible and discoverable in...

2. In the past five years we’ve also had detailed internal discussions about how to make women of color more visible and discoverable in WWO. Modern approaches to metadata really resist treating racial identity as something that could be represented as a metadata field (and incorporated into a user interface as a facet for searching). However, upcoming enhancements to the WWO interface will allow filtering by publication location, which can help identify authors publishing outside of the European and North American context.

The exhibits listed above are an alternative approach—putting the authors and works in WWO in conversation with each other while bringing in important historical context. We hope to expand on this approach; we recently issued a call for contributions as part of a grant-funded initiative focused on the representation of racialized identity.