Please join us! The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing project team will be holding a brown-bag lunch on Monday, November 16th, at noon, in Norlin M210. We are a digital humanities group building an electronic edition of Francis Stainforth’s 19th-century private library–the largest private library of women’s writing in the 19th century. This is a … Continue reading The Digital Humanities for Lunch, with the Stainforth Team – 11/16, noon, M210 Norlin Library, CU-Boulder

We have for a few weeks now had all of our edited transcription files combined in one master Google Sheet instead of in 509 separate Google Sheets. This has enabled all kinds of editorial work necessary to parse our transcriptions in our database. But it also enables us to do fun things like start to … Continue reading C9 Potter (Miss) Poetry of Nature [1789]

I always want to blog about the Stainforth Library authors and works I come across while transcribing, editing data, or encoding, and yet I have a very hard time stopping what I’m doing to actually do this–that is, to share the non-canonical authors that we find during our work, and even the canonical authors that … Continue reading Stopping to Smell Our Data Points: Muggletonians, Ester Sowernam, and Maria Ruth Sanders

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