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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

I tailored this guest lecture about the Stainforth Library of Women Writers project for Mél Hogan’s graduate course in digital curation (JOUR6871). You will find my slides below. Students came from a variety of departments and, in this course, will build their own archives in WordPress. One important point I wanted to make was to … Continue reading Guest lecture on Stainforth Project, 1-27-14, “Digital Curation” grad seminar (Mél Hogan, JOUR6871)

By tracing Elizabeth Cobbold and her poem “Ode on the Victory of Waterloo” (1815) through each facet of the Stainforth Library project, we learn that Cobbold’s work is in conversation with canonical male poets Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Robert Southey (Poet Laureate at the time), and others. To date, her work has not received … Continue reading Conclusion: Putting Cobbold in dialogue with canonical male Romantic-era poets

The Stainforth exhibit at MLA appeared in an Inside Higher Ed article today that covered recent Digital Humanities sessions at MLA14, held in Chicago this past weekend. Clearly, I should have tattooed our project URL to my right arm. The article covers the diverse content and popularity of DH sessions at this year’s MLA, and … Continue reading MLA Stainforth Exhibit in Inside Higher Ed

  How did Stainforth arrange his books? We need computing to help us answer this question. For me, one of the most important parts of the Stainforth Library project is our endeavor to create a digital visualization of how the collector arranged his books in his private library. My plan is to do this with … Continue reading Visualizing Stainforth’s Library Bookshelves: Where Were Cobbold’s Books?

Scholars and students can learn about women writers, collectors, and book culture in 19th-century Britain by comparing the entries for an author in Stainforth’s manuscript catalog of the books in his library to the entry for the same author in Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge’s catalog (1867), compiled by the auctioneers in order to sell Stainforth’s … Continue reading Comparing Cobbold’s Entries in the Manuscript Catalog to the Sotheby’s catalog: What Do We Learn?