In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Women Writers Online collection (described in Intute) will be freely accessible during the month of March 2007. You may also be interested in Intute’s new Limelight released to coincide with International Women’s Day.
Julia Flanders (Director, Women Writers Project, Brown University) writes in her posting to Humanist that Women Writers Online “contains a fascinatingly varied range of early women’s writing: obscure religious prophecy, midwifery, political satire, long melodramatic novels and lyric poetry, witty social commentary and philosophical reflection, dramas both farcical and tragic, and travel narratives from places as far-flung as Burma and Texas.
Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early modern women’s writing in English, encoded in TEI/XML and published using the Philologic search engine developed at the University of Chicago. The collection is developed by the Women Writers Project at Brown University, founded in 1988 by faculty in an effort to increase the visibility and availability of women’s writing for teaching and research. The project’s research focuses on the challenges of using detailed TEI markup to represent early printed books, and on issues of digital scholarly communication.
In 2007-2008, the WWP is conducting an NEH-sponsored series of seminars on scholarly text encoding with TEI.
Your feedback and thoughts are welcome! Enjoy the collection.”
