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-	<br>The choice of women presented here, and of countries represented, is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception of women's writing in the Netherlands: we intended to find traces of ''foreign'' authors finding Dutch readers. And indeed we found the names (or pseudonyms) and works of about 1550 non-Dutch authors having found readership in the Netherlands before c.1900. This means for example:<br><br>	+	<br>The choice of women presented here, and of countries represented, is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception of women's writing in the Netherlands: we intended to find traces of ''foreign'' authors finding Dutch readers. And indeed we found the names (or pseudonyms) and works of about 1550 non-Dutch authors having found readership in the Netherlands before c.1900. This means for example that the database ''WomenWriters'' contains the names of and any information about:<br><br>
	* 210 authors from Germany [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=4&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>		* 210 authors from Germany [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=4&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>
	* 80 from the United States [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&pseudonym=1&Country_ID=10&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>		* 80 from the United States [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&pseudonym=1&Country_ID=10&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>

SvDijk at 12:50, 7 September 2007

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-	'''Women's reading and writing:<br>readership and participation in the literary field'''<br><br><br>This part of the site will in the near future present women authors for whom records in the database ''WomenWriters'' are showing the importance, or for whom further research has been done. Focus will be on their attitude in the dialogues they are undertaking by publishing their works: “answers” to preceding events or publications by others.	+	'''Women's reading and writing:<br>their participation in the literary field'''<br><br><br>This part of the site will in the near future present women authors for whom records in the database ''WomenWriters'' are showing the importance, or for whom further research has been done. Focus will be on their attitude in the dialogues they are undertaking by publishing their works: “answers” to preceding events or publications by others.

	<br>In this programme, those considered as “authors” are women who wrote and published, either fiction or non-fiction, either books or contributions to the periodical press, either their own texts or translations of texts by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. Therefore, “intermediaries” are being classified here as “authors”.		<br>In this programme, those considered as “authors” are women who wrote and published, either fiction or non-fiction, either books or contributions to the periodical press, either their own texts or translations of texts by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. Therefore, “intermediaries” are being classified here as “authors”.

SvDijk at 12:37, 7 September 2007

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	<br>In this programme, those considered as “authors” are women who wrote and published, either fiction or non-fiction, either books or contributions to the periodical press, either their own texts or translations of texts by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. Therefore, “intermediaries” are being classified here as “authors”.		<br>In this programme, those considered as “authors” are women who wrote and published, either fiction or non-fiction, either books or contributions to the periodical press, either their own texts or translations of texts by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. Therefore, “intermediaries” are being classified here as “authors”.

-	<br>This provisional definition is of course not wholly unproblematic: what about oral forms of literature, for example? Wat about women, like Madame de Sévigné, who did not write for publication, but exerted considerable influence? These questions will be addressed in the first of the annual “NEWW November meetings” to be organized in Utrecht (November 22, 2007; Drift 23).	+	<br>This provisional definition is of course not wholly unproblematic: what about oral forms of literature, for example? Wat about women, like Madame de Sévigné, who did not write for publication, but exerted considerable influence? These questions will be addressed in the first of the annual “NEWW November meetings” to be organized in Utrecht (November 22, 2007; Drift 23; more details will follow).
-	Details will follow; for information: [mailto:Suzan.vanDijk@let.uu.nl Suzan van Dijk].	+

-	<br>In this part of the site, just as anywhere, we welcome short articles to be published online, as far as they are resulting from research facilitated by the database ''WomenWriters'' (propositions are subject to peer review). Articles are presented - only for the sake of easily being found [!] - according to the women's national identities:	+	<br>In this part of the site, just as anywhere, we welcome short articles to be published online, as far as they are resulting from research facilitated by the database ''WomenWriters'' (propositions are subject to peer review). Articles are presented - only for the sake of easily being found - according to the women's national identities:<br>


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	*[[Swedish authors]]<BR>		*[[Swedish authors]]<BR>

-	<br>The choice of women presented here, and of countries represented, is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception of women's writing in the Netherlands. We intended to find traces of foreign authors finding Dutch readers. And indeed we found the names (or pseudonyms) and works of about 1550 non-Dutch authors having found readership in the Netherlands before c.1900. This means for example:<br>	+	<br>The choice of women presented here, and of countries represented, is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception of women's writing in the Netherlands: we intended to find traces of ''foreign'' authors finding Dutch readers. And indeed we found the names (or pseudonyms) and works of about 1550 non-Dutch authors having found readership in the Netherlands before c.1900. This means for example:<br><br>
	* 210 authors from Germany [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=4&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>		* 210 authors from Germany [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=4&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>
	* 80 from the United States [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&pseudonym=1&Country_ID=10&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>		* 80 from the United States [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&pseudonym=1&Country_ID=10&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>
-	* 80 from Italy, or writing in Italian [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=5&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&page=1] (this example is illustrating the difficulty of classing authors... This question will be discussed in one of our upcoming meetings.)<br>	+	* 80 from Italy, or writing in Italian [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=5&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&page=1] (example which is illustrating the difficulty of classifying authors... The question will be discussed in one of our upcoming meetings.)<br><br>
-	In terms of sheer discovery, this is certainly rewarding, but more astonishing still were the numbers we found of Dutch “authors”: women who translated and commented, but often also wrote and published their own works. Instead of the about 10 or 15 women’s names to be encountered in current Dutch literary historiography (concerning the periods before 1900), we reached a number of about 700 names (19th century: 400; 18th: 175; 17th: 100; earlier: 25). This sounds incredible; analysis of the data and detailed study of the reception documents themselves (starting October 2007), in relation to the women’s works, will explain our findings.<br><br>	+	In terms of sheer discovery, this is certainly rewarding, but more astonishing still were the numbers we found of Dutch “authors”. Instead of the about 10 or 15 women’s names to be encountered in current Dutch literary historiography (concerning the periods before 1900), we reached a number of more than 700 names [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=2&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn] (19th century: 400; 18th: 175; 17th: 100; earlier: 25). This sounds incredible; analysis of the data and detailed study of the reception documents themselves (starting October 2007), in relation to the women’s works, will have to explain our findings.<br><br><br>

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SvDijk at 12:27, 7 September 2007

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	'''Women's reading and writing:<br>readership and participation in the literary field'''<br><br><br>This part of the site will in the near future present women authors for whom records in the database ''WomenWriters'' are showing the importance, or for whom further research has been done. Focus will be on their attitude in the dialogues they are undertaking by publishing their works: “answers” to preceding events or publications by others.		'''Women's reading and writing:<br>readership and participation in the literary field'''<br><br><br>This part of the site will in the near future present women authors for whom records in the database ''WomenWriters'' are showing the importance, or for whom further research has been done. Focus will be on their attitude in the dialogues they are undertaking by publishing their works: “answers” to preceding events or publications by others.

-	<br>In this programme, those considered as “authors” are women who wrote and published, either their own texts or translations of texts by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. Therefore, “intermediaries” are being classified here as “authors”.	+	<br>In this programme, those considered as “authors” are women who wrote and published, either fiction or non-fiction, either books or contributions to the periodical press, either their own texts or translations of texts by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. Therefore, “intermediaries” are being classified here as “authors”.

	<br>This provisional definition is of course not wholly unproblematic: what about oral forms of literature, for example? Wat about women, like Madame de Sévigné, who did not write for publication, but exerted considerable influence? These questions will be addressed in the first of the annual “NEWW November meetings” to be organized in Utrecht (November 22, 2007; Drift 23).		<br>This provisional definition is of course not wholly unproblematic: what about oral forms of literature, for example? Wat about women, like Madame de Sévigné, who did not write for publication, but exerted considerable influence? These questions will be addressed in the first of the annual “NEWW November meetings” to be organized in Utrecht (November 22, 2007; Drift 23).
	Details will follow; for information: [mailto:Suzan.vanDijk@let.uu.nl Suzan van Dijk].		Details will follow; for information: [mailto:Suzan.vanDijk@let.uu.nl Suzan van Dijk].

-	<br>In this part of the site, just as anywhere, we welcome short articles to be published online, as far as they are resulting from research facilitated by the database ''WomenWriters'' (propositions are subject to peer review). Articles are presented - for the sake of easily being found - according to the women's national identities:	+	<br>In this part of the site, just as anywhere, we welcome short articles to be published online, as far as they are resulting from research facilitated by the database ''WomenWriters'' (propositions are subject to peer review). Articles are presented - only for the sake of easily being found [!] - according to the women's national identities:


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	<br>The choice of women presented here, and of countries represented, is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception of women's writing in the Netherlands. We intended to find traces of foreign authors finding Dutch readers. And indeed we found the names (or pseudonyms) and works of about 1550 non-Dutch authors having found readership in the Netherlands before c.1900. This means for example:<br>		<br>The choice of women presented here, and of countries represented, is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception of women's writing in the Netherlands. We intended to find traces of foreign authors finding Dutch readers. And indeed we found the names (or pseudonyms) and works of about 1550 non-Dutch authors having found readership in the Netherlands before c.1900. This means for example:<br>
-	* 210 authors from Germany<br>	+	* 210 authors from Germany [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=4&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>
-	* 80 from the United States[http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&pseudonym=1&Country_ID=10&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>	+	* 80 from the United States [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&pseudonym=1&Country_ID=10&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>
-	* 80 from Italy, or writing in Italian (this example is illustrating the difficulty of classing authors... This question will be discussed in one of our upcoming meetings.)<br>	+	* 80 from Italy, or writing in Italian [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=5&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&page=1] (this example is illustrating the difficulty of classing authors... This question will be discussed in one of our upcoming meetings.)<br>
	In terms of sheer discovery, this is certainly rewarding, but more astonishing still were the numbers we found of Dutch “authors”: women who translated and commented, but often also wrote and published their own works. Instead of the about 10 or 15 women’s names to be encountered in current Dutch literary historiography (concerning the periods before 1900), we reached a number of about 700 names (19th century: 400; 18th: 175; 17th: 100; earlier: 25). This sounds incredible; analysis of the data and detailed study of the reception documents themselves (starting October 2007), in relation to the women’s works, will explain our findings.<br><br>		In terms of sheer discovery, this is certainly rewarding, but more astonishing still were the numbers we found of Dutch “authors”: women who translated and commented, but often also wrote and published their own works. Instead of the about 10 or 15 women’s names to be encountered in current Dutch literary historiography (concerning the periods before 1900), we reached a number of about 700 names (19th century: 400; 18th: 175; 17th: 100; earlier: 25). This sounds incredible; analysis of the data and detailed study of the reception documents themselves (starting October 2007), in relation to the women’s works, will explain our findings.<br><br>

SvDijk at 11:26, 7 September 2007

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	*[[Swedish authors]]<BR>		*[[Swedish authors]]<BR>

-	<br>The choice of women presented here and of countries represented is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception of women's writing in the Netherlands. We intended to find traces of foreign authors finding Dutch readers. And indeed we found the names (or pseudonyms) and works of about 1550 non-Dutch authors having found readership in the Netherland before c.1900. This means for example:<br>	+	<br>The choice of women presented here, and of countries represented, is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception of women's writing in the Netherlands. We intended to find traces of foreign authors finding Dutch readers. And indeed we found the names (or pseudonyms) and works of about 1550 non-Dutch authors having found readership in the Netherlands before c.1900. This means for example:<br>
-	* nine authors from Austria<br>	+	* 210 authors from Germany<br>
-	In terms of sheer discovery, this is highly rewarding, as could be observed and provisionally illustrated in the online publishing site Women Writers’ Networks related to the database (www.womenwriters.nl). During the last three years, in the context of an NWO-funded digitizing project, the database WomenWriters has been expanded to include about 13,000 records documenting the reception of European women’s writing in the Dutch Republic and in the Netherlands during 18th and 19th centuries. Not only have we accumulated evidence concerning the presence in the Dutch language-area of numerous foreign women authors (read by men and women), but also – much more than expected – we found contacts with Dutch women who translated and commented, besides often writing their own works. Instead of the about 10 or 15 women’s names to be encountered in current Dutch literary historiography, we reached a number of about 700 names (19th century: 400; 18th: 175; 17th: 100; earlier: 25). This sounds incredible; analysis of the data and detailed study of the reception documents themselves (starting October 2007), in relation to the women’s works, will explain our findings.<br><br>	+	* 80 from the United States[http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&pseudonym=1&Country_ID=10&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn]<br>
		+	* 80 from Italy, or writing in Italian (this example is illustrating the difficulty of classing authors... This question will be discussed in one of our upcoming meetings.)<br>
		+	In terms of sheer discovery, this is certainly rewarding, but more astonishing still were the numbers we found of Dutch “authors”: women who translated and commented, but often also wrote and published their own works. Instead of the about 10 or 15 women’s names to be encountered in current Dutch literary historiography (concerning the periods before 1900), we reached a number of about 700 names (19th century: 400; 18th: 175; 17th: 100; earlier: 25). This sounds incredible; analysis of the data and detailed study of the reception documents themselves (starting October 2007), in relation to the women’s works, will explain our findings.<br><br>

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SvDijk at 11:11, 7 September 2007

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	*[[Swedish authors]]<BR>		*[[Swedish authors]]<BR>

-	<br>The choice of women presented here and of countries represented is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception in the Netherlands.<br><br>	+	<br>The choice of women presented here and of countries represented is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception of women's writing in the Netherlands. We intended to find traces of foreign authors finding Dutch readers. And indeed we found the names (or pseudonyms) and works of about 1550 non-Dutch authors having found readership in the Netherland before c.1900. This means for example:<br>
		+	* nine authors from Austria<br>
		+	In terms of sheer discovery, this is highly rewarding, as could be observed and provisionally illustrated in the online publishing site Women Writers’ Networks related to the database (www.womenwriters.nl). During the last three years, in the context of an NWO-funded digitizing project, the database WomenWriters has been expanded to include about 13,000 records documenting the reception of European women’s writing in the Dutch Republic and in the Netherlands during 18th and 19th centuries. Not only have we accumulated evidence concerning the presence in the Dutch language-area of numerous foreign women authors (read by men and women), but also – much more than expected – we found contacts with Dutch women who translated and commented, besides often writing their own works. Instead of the about 10 or 15 women’s names to be encountered in current Dutch literary historiography, we reached a number of about 700 names (19th century: 400; 18th: 175; 17th: 100; earlier: 25). This sounds incredible; analysis of the data and detailed study of the reception documents themselves (starting October 2007), in relation to the women’s works, will explain our findings.<br><br>

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		+	<br>The choice of women presented here and of countries represented is still rather small. This is directly related to the fact that during the digitizing project we focused on the reception in the Netherlands.<br><br>

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-	N.B. this where you are now:<br>	+	N.B. '''this''' is where you are '''now''':<br>
	Home<br>		Home<br>
	Presentation<br>		Presentation<br>
-	''The writing side''<br>	+	'''The writing side'''<br>
	The reading side<br>		The reading side<br>
	Sources<br>		Sources<br>

SvDijk at 10:45, 7 September 2007

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		+	N.B. this where you are now:<br>
		+	Home<br>
		+	Presentation<br>
		+	''The writing side''<br>
		+	The reading side<br>
		+	Sources<br>

SvDijk at 10:43, 7 September 2007

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-	'''Women's reading and writing:<br>readership and participation in the literary field'''<br><br><br>This part of the site will in the near future present women authors for whom records in the database ''WomenWriters'' are showing the importance, or for whom further research has been done. Focus will be on their attitude in the dialogues they are undertaking by publishing their works.	+	'''Women's reading and writing:<br>readership and participation in the literary field'''<br><br><br>This part of the site will in the near future present women authors for whom records in the database ''WomenWriters'' are showing the importance, or for whom further research has been done. Focus will be on their attitude in the dialogues they are undertaking by publishing their works: “answers” to preceding events or publications by others.

-	<br>In this project, those considered as “authors” are women who wrote and published, be it their own texts or translations of texts by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. In other words, “intermediaries” are being classified here as “authors”.	+	<br>In this programme, those considered as “authors” are women who wrote and published, either their own texts or translations of texts by others, comments on others’ writings, etc. Therefore, “intermediaries” are being classified here as “authors”.

-	<br>This provisional definition is of course not wholly unproblematic: what about oral forms of literature, for example, for which reception documents are difficult to find? Wat about women, like Madame de Sévigné, who did not write for publication, but exerted considerable influence? These questions will be addressed in the first of the “NEWW November meetings” in Amsterdam (November 22, 2007).	+	<br>This provisional definition is of course not wholly unproblematic: what about oral forms of literature, for example? Wat about women, like Madame de Sévigné, who did not write for publication, but exerted considerable influence? These questions will be addressed in the first of the annual “NEWW November meetings” to be organized in Utrecht (November 22, 2007; Drift 23).
	Details will follow; for information: [mailto:Suzan.vanDijk@let.uu.nl Suzan van Dijk].		Details will follow; for information: [mailto:Suzan.vanDijk@let.uu.nl Suzan van Dijk].

-	<br>We welcome short articles to be published here online, as far as they are resulting from research facilitated by the database ''WomenWriters'' (propositions are subject to peer review). They will be presented - for the sake of easily being found - according to the women's national identities:	+	<br>In this part of the site, just as anywhere, we welcome short articles to be published online, as far as they are resulting from research facilitated by the database ''WomenWriters'' (propositions are subject to peer review). Articles are presented - for the sake of easily being found - according to the women's national identities: