[With apologies for cross-posting, please circulate widely!]

 

Dear all,

 

We’re happy to announce that Women Writers Online (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/) and Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (http://orlando.cambridge.org) will again be free for the month of March, in celebration of Women’s History Month. 

 

The WWO collection includes more than 420 texts written or translated by women between 1526 and 1850. In addition to WWO, the Women Writers Project also has several publications and resources that are always open access, including:

• Women Writers in Review (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/review/), a collection of close to 700 reviews of and responses to works by the authors in WWO;
• Women Writers in Context (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/context/), a collection of more than 100 essays exploring topics related to early women’s writing;
• The WWP Lab (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/lab/) where we publish new tools, visualizations, and technologies for experimenting with women's writing;
• The Women Writers Vector Toolkit (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/lab/wwvt/index.html), an interface for exploring the WWO collection using word embedding models, which enable the discovery of relationships between words in large collections of texts; and
• A growing collection of teaching materials (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/teaching/pedagogical-dev.html). 

 

You can see our recently published texts here: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/texts/new/new.html 

view help pages for WWO here: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/help/wwo_help.html 

and see a full list of the texts in the collection here: https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/texts/titleURLs.html 

 

We also have a blog post with some more ideas for exploring WWO here: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/wwo-free-march-2021/. 

 

Please feel free to contact us if you would like more information about any of these publications: [log in to unmask] No login is required to access WWO during March.

 

Orlando is an online cultural history generated from the lives and works of women writers. At present, it contains: 1,413 author entries (1,117 British women writers, 178 male writers, 177 other women writers—listed twice if their nationality shifted); 13,794 free-standing and 28,807 embedded chronology entries; 29,479 bibliographical listings; 2,749,854 tags; and 9,038,958 words (exclusive of tags). More than 31,000 people and more than 8,700 organizations are mentioned or discussed somewhere in the textbase. For more on getting started with Orlando, see: orlando.cambridge.org/public/svDocumentation?d_id=QUICKTIPSFORNEWUSERS 

 

Orlando in this familiar garb is due to be replaced in April 2021 by Orlando 2.0, in which the same contents, still regularly enhanced and expanded, will present with a new look, new interface, and new search methods.

 

To access Orlando, log in here:

orlando.cambridge.org

username: womenshistory21

password: orlando21

 

We hope you enjoy the collections!

 

All our best,

 

 

Julia, Sarah, Susan, and Isobel

 

Julia Flanders, Director                                                       Susan Brown, Technical Director

Sarah Connell, Assistant Director                                     Isobel Grundy, Research Director

Women Writers Project                                                     Orlando Project

Northeastern University                                                    University of Alberta and University of Guelph