Stainforth Blog

Recipient of Innovative Seed Grant

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

“Hands On: Producing the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing,” for Dartmouth College Library (4-7-15)

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)

The Stainforth Digital Library Under Construction, for the Arts & Humanities Resource Center “Gear Up” 2015 (Dartmouth 1-22-15)

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)

Francis John Stainforth: A Biographical Sketch

[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

5 Stainforth bookplates found at the Newberry

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

2 More Stainforth Books Located at UVA

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

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