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

 

Dear all,

 

We’re happy to confirm 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 460 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). 

 

See the WWP's Welcome Page for more on getting started with our collections: https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/about/welcome.html 

 

Please contact us if you would like more information about any of these publications or if you would like to suggest any texts we should add to our collections: [log in to unmask] 

 

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. 
• The interface supports search and faceting on the extensive semantic markup embedded in the text to come up with serendipitous results related to your own field and interests.

 

Free access to Orlando (http://orlando.cambridge.org) is to the Orlando website launched last year with its fresh look and new features. Watch for an update in March, during the free period, featuring new content and additional interface features.

Once at the Orlando website, in the dialogue box accessed by clicking on the “Login” button at the top right or by landing on a protected page, enter the following information: 

Email: “[log in to unmask]” 

Password: “free-Orlando”. 

 

Please feel free to contact us at [log in to unmask] with suggestions or if you are interested in becoming a collaborator by updating or writing an entry.

 

We hope you enjoy the collections!

 

All our best,

 

 

Julia, Sarah, Susan, and Isobel

 

Julia Flanders, Director                                                       Susan Brown, Technical Director

Sarah Connell, Associate Director                                    Isobel Grundy, Research Director

Women Writers Project                                                      Orlando Project

Northeastern University                                                     University of Alberta and University of Guelph