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<p>New page: &lt;br&gt;__NOEDITSECTION__ == Jan Rybicki == &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; '''Visualizing the femininity of the &quot;Chawton House corpus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; ''Abstract:''&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Two main questions are addressed in thi...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;br&gt;__NOEDITSECTION__<br /> == Jan Rybicki ==<br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> '''Visualizing the femininity of the &quot;Chawton House corpus&quot;'''&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> ''Abstract:''&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> Two main questions are addressed in this very brief presentation of the stylometric features of the [http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488 &quot;Chawton House corpus&quot;]. First, the &quot;Chawton novels&quot;, ''i.e.'' the anonymous ones and those written by known female authors are compared to identify, among the anonymous texts, those that might or might not have been written by a woman. To do this, another corpus of somewhat more canonical female ([http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/242 Austen], [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/2 Radcliffe], [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/184 Burney], [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/106 Edgeworth], [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/209 Shelley], [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/336 Porter]) and male (Defoe, Swift, Johnson, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Goldsmith, Walpole, Lewis, Beckford, Godwin, Scott, Peacock) authors is studied, using Burrows's &quot;zeta method&quot;, to establish a list of words characteristic for both groups of the &quot;classic&quot; writers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; <br /> <br /> This wordlist is then used to perform a Cluster Analysis of word frequencies of all the texts mentioned above. A clear division appears between the females and the males, with but a few misplacements (including a parody of the sentimental novel); one of the anonymous books consistently appears among those by Defoe ''et al''.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> The other comparion is limited to just the known female writers from both the inside and the outside of the &quot;Chawton House corpus&quot;. Once again, a characteristic wordlist is established for both categories of writers. Interestingly, the &quot;famous&quot; writers tend less to use words directly associated with emotions and plot events usually associated with the 18th-century sentimental novel. One again, the two subgroups are almost perfectly outlined.<br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> SvD, November 2012&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;hr&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> *Conferences and activities &gt; [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Meetings_of_COST_Action_%22Women_Writers_In_History%22 COST meetings] &gt; [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Conference_presenting_the_3rd_Milestone Poznan November 2012] &gt; Rybicki&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</div>

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