eHumanities group 10 May 2012Suzan van Dijk

Working onWomen Writers In History:

• International network for large-scale research on women’s presence in the European literary field. (3-6)

• Empirical evidence for the contemporary reception of their works.

• Large-scale sources

• Preparing a new version of the database WomenWriters :

1. Interconnectivity with other online projects

2. The possibility of making the texts comparable

3. A new data model corresponding to a different perspective on literary communication.

• Preparing data for the new version:

1. checking and completing data,

2. standardizing certain parts of the information, in order to make them appropriate for faceted search and visualisation.

• Work program ?

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Present data model: A – W – R

AUTHOR WORKRECEIVER(S)

Françoise Lettres several

de > d’une < critics in

Graffigny Péruvienne the press

(1747, 1751)

Future data model: P – W – P – W – P etc

Richardson, Pamela (1741)

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Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken, De Historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart (1782)

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Isabelle de Charrière, Lettres neuchâ-teloises (1784)

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Swiss critic, shocked (1784): « Etait-ce à une jeune fille, a-t-on dit, à parler à un jeune homme, qu'elle n'a vu que deux ou trois fois, d'une ouvrière qui se dit grosse de lui? où sont les bienséances? »

Work program ???