Stainforth Blog

Today we’re celebrating a project milestone: the team completed the transcription and editing for all of the pages (1-507) of Stainforth’s library catalog manuscript. We began transcribing the library catalog manuscript in January of 2014. After finishing the transcription in the fall/winter of 2014, we began editing all of the transcribed data in early March … Continue reading Project Milestone: Completed Transcription and Editing of Library Catalog

Ann Maria Ainslie does not have an Orlando Project entry or a Wikipedia page, but Francis John Stainforth collected the second edition of her volume Letters from the Dead to the Living; and Moral Letters, published in Edinburgh in 1812. In fact, you would not know what an interesting title this is from Stainforth’s ms … Continue reading “Letters from the Dead to the Living” by Ann Maria Ainslie (1812)

Team Stainforth has some extremely good news: we are the recipients of a $47,230.00 innovative seed grant from the University of Colorado Boulder for the year 2015-2016. The grant will fund technology and research assistance for completing library catalog data entry and remaining transcription designing the web interface and linking our data to it initiatives … Continue reading Recipient of Innovative Seed Grant

Read the blog version of this talk: here. List of Links for Part II of Talk: Shared Google Doc is here. Shared Google Drive folder with sub-folders for data, edited content, guidelines, and our sub-projects, like the mapping project. There are many aspects of Google Drive that make me regret the decision to use it … Continue reading “Hands On: Producing the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing,” for Dartmouth College Library (4-7-15)

I was asked to present the Stainforth Digital Library of Women Writers at today’s “Gear Up” DH event, sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Resource Center at Dartmouth. The goal of this event was to educate faculty regarding DH project ideas, processes, opportunities, the people who are involved in them, and what they can produce. … Continue reading The Stainforth Digital Library Under Construction, for the Arts & Humanities Resource Center “Gear Up” 2015 (Dartmouth 1-22-15)

[Update 12/5/16: Susan Guinn-Chipman has continued researching Stainforth’s biography, using this short biography draft below as her starting point. Our current biography draft can be found under the “About” tab on the project website. The biographical sketch below represents early research on the topic. It has been expanded and, in some cases, corrected.] Knowledge of Francis John … Continue reading Francis John Stainforth: A Biographical Sketch

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