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Author Archives: Anni Sairio
The Bluestocking Corpus to be published in 2015! We hope!
This year is a big year for the Bluestocking Corpus – it’s going to be published! Bluestocking Corpus consists of manuscript correspondence between Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800) and her social circle, painstakingly transcribed and compiled into a digital source of research material … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluestocking Corpus, CEEC, corpus compilation, defending WordCruncher, memories
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From manuscripts to corpus coding: a learning curve
On November 15, I gave a short talk at the seminar From Correspondence to Corpora at the University of Helsinki. My 10-minute talk was a confessione of sorts about some of the things I’ve learned over the years working on … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Research
Tagged Bluestocking Corpus, CEEC, corpus compilation, shortcomings nay problems, transcribing
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Pride and Prejudices: Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century
This year Chawton House Library celebrates its tenth anniversary as a research centre for women’s writing. The research institute organized a conference titled Pride and Prejudices: Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century in July 2013, in collaboration with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chawton House Library, Elizabeth Montagu, presentation, research, social network analysis, women's writing
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Why wasn’t Robert Lowth a Bluestocking? On historical network analysis and gender
I just finished reading Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade’s The Bishop’s Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism (OUP, 2011). This book includes an interesting network analysis of Robert Lowth (1710–1787), the 18th-century theologian, philologist, and author of the bestselling A … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluestockings, data, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu, evidence, gender, hannah more, historical network analysis, letter edition, letters, Robert Lowth, social network analysis
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Sumer is nearly icumen in
This post started out as a to do list for the autumn, so this should be of interest to about one or three people (some of whom possibly pay my salary). Read closely, your money is being well spent! Read … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged biographies, Chawton House Library, colleagues and friends, conference, daily life, schedules, to do
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How I work
I was going to blog about Elizabeth Montagu’s and Sarah Scott’s author identities, but I can’t figure out how the new Eighteenth Century Collections Online search thing works and so I haven’t found any of Sarah Scott’s books (which I … Continue reading
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On the occasion of the International Women’s Day
Have you seen a little Poem called the Female advocate? The Author (a Woman) sent me a copy, tho I do not know her. She seems to write with some ease and spirit. Mrs Chapone and I are under infinite … Continue reading
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Tagged attitudes, hannah montana, hannah more, irony, letters, phillis wheatley, poetry
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