We recently found 5 books with Stainforth bookplates in the Newberry’s catalog. One of the gems in this find is a collection of poems by Ann Murry (1755-1816). Murry is a little-known writer without an entry in either the ODNB or Orlando, but she does have a short bio on the Spenserians website, found here. … Continue reading 5 Stainforth bookplates found at the Newberry

This evening, I found two new Stainforth books located in UVA’s Small Special Collections online catalog. Once more, it is Stainforth’s bookplates in library provenance metadata that enables us to search for his books and locate his exact copies in online library catalogs. Today’s catch includes: Robinson, Mary Darby. The poetical works of the late … Continue reading 2 More Stainforth Books Located at UVA

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

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 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

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

Yesterday, team Stainforth members at CU Boulder Libraries Special Collections made a video that shows how Stainforth’s library catalog manuscript works. The manuscript is a tête-bêche (head-to-toe) volume in which two catalogs share a spine: an inventory of the library’s holdings as well as a wish-list or “Wants” catalog of those works the collector knew … Continue reading Video: How the Stainforth Library Catalog Manuscript Works

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Moody is author of “Anna’s Complaint; Or the Miseries of War; written in the Isle of Thanet, 1794” (full text here). Some biographical points of note: Elizabeth (1737-1814) was 17 years older than her husband. They married when she was 40 and he was 23. Her husband was an extremely prolific contributor to the Monthly … Continue reading Elizabeth Moody

I have recently been thinking about the name of our project, “The Stainforth Library of Women Writers,” and the emphasis and authority that the project name places on the collector. Special Collections archives often name a certain collection within their archive after the person who donated it and/or provided funding to acquire more pieces for … Continue reading The Women Authors of Stainforth’s Library: Introducing a Series of Blog Posts, Teasers