Women Writers Project

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Title

Women Writers Project

Creator

Julia Flanders

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Women Writers Project
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Description

The goal of the Women Writers Project is to revisit pre-Victorian texts, written by women. The research project dedicates itself to text encoding, accessibility to a variety of audiences, and electronic texts.

Requirements

The requirements are a browser, subscription, and specialized knowledge on the word vector feature.

Alternatives

The Orlando Project is a similar project that is like the Women Writers Projects. The goal of the Orlando Project is to highlight feminist literary work.

Get Started

Preexisting knowledge about the Victorian Period is helpful to anyone who visits the project.

Accessibility

There is different colored text and Images have a description of what the picture is displaying, which could help a larger audience understand the project. At the same time, not everyone can access the project (membership or account required), and some of the font is small and in lighter colored text.

Date Created

1988

Contributor

The project has received support from Brown University, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Delmas Foundation.

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