Stainforth’s Bookplates & the Hunt for Original Copies from His Library

Lately, Team Stainforth has been on a winning streak of finding books that we believe were part of Francis John Stainforth’s original collection. This is just a fun side project right now, since our main task is to finish transcribing his manuscript catalog. (We have almost completed raw transcription of the 508 acquisitions pages.) After … Continue reading Stainforth’s Bookplates & the Hunt for Original Copies from His Library

Stainforth Project Introductory Presentation, Neukom Institute Event, 20 October 2014

My Neukom postdoctoral project here at Dartmouth creates a digital model of Francis John Stainforth’s library, which was an actual private library in London collected in the 19th century that contains only books by women who were writing poetry and plays – some of the most popular genres of the day. What makes this library … Continue reading Stainforth Project Introductory Presentation, Neukom Institute Event, 20 October 2014

The Stainforth Project and Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College

The Stainforth Library of Women Writers digital archive project now has a second home on Dartmouth’s new Digital Humanities website and among other DH projects at Dartmouth. Projects that it has the most in common with include The Occom Circle project as well as the Media Ecology Project. See below for project descriptions and links. … Continue reading The Stainforth Project and Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College

The Stainforth manuscript by the numbers

Format: quarto, previously blank thick and ruled account book, latest entries in 1866, auctioned in 1867 by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Total Pages: 746 pages (373 leaves) – Acquisitions list: 508 pages (254 leaves) – Wants list: 184 pages (92 leaves) – Blank: 52 pages (26 leaves) Acquisitions list – total number of works: – … Continue reading The Stainforth manuscript by the numbers