By Allyson Long (Dartmouth ’17) One work found in Stainforth’s collection that is of particular interest to us is Sophia Hovenden’s The Hand Unseen, etc. [In verse.] published in Jerusalem in 1846. According to its Worldcat record, The Hand Unseen was published in both English and Hebrew in Jerusalem in this year, and a microform copy of the English version exists … Continue reading Sophia Hovenden, Jerusalem

One of the fun parts of tracking down Stainforth’s books is seeing the different types of libraries they have ended up in. As one might expect, most of the books (outside of the British Library’s collection) have so far surfaced in academic libraries and their associated rare book collections, but they have also surfaced in … Continue reading Tales of Two Libraries (and Three Books)

  The Stainforth Mapping Project might have its goal of tracking down the current location of his former library books, but we are also interested in how those books got to where they are now. To do this we have to work the trail from both ends: where they went after the auction in 1867 … Continue reading The Tale of Aphra Behn’s “A Pindarick Poem” and How it Came to CU

By Cayla Eagon One of the primary goals of The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing project is to recover women writers who have been neglected, undervalued, or lost from literary studies. We recognize that these voices are important for a better understanding of the historical moments they inhabited, the literary culture they participated in, and … Continue reading Digging up Digital Identities for Women Writers

  DH Stainforth work as an RA was experiential by nature. In other words, there wasn’t an aspect of Stainforth editing that is not experiential learning, according to the editors (or from what I gleaned from their interviews) Communication was a key component, especially in terms of feeling part of a collaborative team. They noticed … Continue reading Experiential Learning in the Stainforth Project: RA Take-aways

Because I have been so lucky to work with fantastic researchers/students here at Dartmouth and at CU Boulder to work on the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing, Dartmouth’s Digital Humanities librarians asked me to present on experiential learning in DH. As a doctoral student, I was also paid to work on a professor’s DH projects … Continue reading RA Interviews on Experiential Learning and The Stainforth Project

As a research assistant for the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing, one of my jobs has been to help transcribe and edit the entries in Stainforth’s manuscript into a Google spreadsheet—an activity that involves hours of staring at digitized versions of handwritten manuscript pages. The task may seem tedious—and, well, it is—but doing this kind … Continue reading Rossetti and Typeface: Thinking Like a DH Archivist

https://storify.com/KLeuner/s522-mla-2016 Speakers: Eric Loy (U Rochester), Kirstyn Leuner (Dartmouth C), Ryan Cordell (Northeastern U) Organized by Lindsey Eckert (Georgia State U), moderated by Megan Peiser (U of Missouri)

My (Kirstyn’s) portion of Team Stainforth’s presentation today will illustrate the origins of the project and the process of turning the Stainforth library catalog manuscript into data, or machine-readable and electronically shareable text. Since I am condensing 3 years of work into a few minutes, I want to use our project blog to emphasize two … Continue reading 11-16-15 Team Stainforth Presentation, Norlin Library