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* the roles women played as cultural transmitters<br> * the roles women played as cultural transmitters<br>
e.g.: translating works by [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&Rec_Gender=F&media_ID=11&RecCountry_ID=3&pageSize=50&order=r.Year other women], as well as by [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&Country_ID=3&personal=&professional=translator&Editor_ID=geen&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn&page=2 men]. <br><br> e.g.: translating works by [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&Rec_Gender=F&media_ID=11&RecCountry_ID=3&pageSize=50&order=r.Year other women], as well as by [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&Country_ID=3&personal=&professional=translator&Editor_ID=geen&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn&page=2 men]. <br><br>
-'''This approach requires international collaboration'''. <br><br><br>+'''This decision implies the need of international collaboration'''. <br><br><br>
'''2.'''<br> '''2.'''<br>
'''The reception of women’s writing in their own day is considered crucial for any attempt to estimate their historical significance.'''<br> <br> '''The reception of women’s writing in their own day is considered crucial for any attempt to estimate their historical significance.'''<br> <br>
-Authors and texts should be approached from the side of their (international) reception. This allows to do justice to long neglected authors such as [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=leprince%20de%20beaumont&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&RecCountry_ID=2&pageSize=50&order=r.Year Mme Leprince de Beaumont].<br>+Authors and texts should be approached from the side of their (international) reception, independently of the women’s having entered, later on, a literary, historical or feminist canon. This allows to do justice to long neglected authors such as [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=leprince%20de%20beaumont&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&RecCountry_ID=2&pageSize=50&order=r.Year Mme Leprince de Beaumont], provided that searching takes place in large-scale sources, perused completely or for certain periods selected at random:<br>
-* Dutch literary canon used to include, until recently, about [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=2&personal=&bibliography=knuvelder&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn five 18th-century women’s names]; <br>+* quantitative data, such as<br>
-* in this project, while starting at the reading end, [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&page=3 200 names of Dutch 18th-century writing women] were found.<br><br>+** lists of [http://www.dbnl.nl/tekst/buis006popu01_01/index.htm translations]<br>
 +** library [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&media_ID=7,%2026&source_ID=72&pageSize=50&order=r.Year catalogues]<br>
 +* comments pretending to represent or influence public opinion, such as<br>
 +** reviews in the [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&media_ID=2&source_ID=26&pageSize=50&order=r.Year periodical press]<br>
 +** early [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&media_ID=9&source_ID=100&pageSize=50&order=a2.name literary history] <br>
 +* individual voices, in particular <br>
 +** authors' [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&media_ID=4&source_ID=154&pageSize=50&order=r.Year correspondences] <br><br>
 +A preliminary pilot has made clear that the Dutch literary field included much more than the [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&notesfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=2&personal=&bibliography=knuvelder&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn about five 18th-century women] till recently presented in historiography. While starting at the reading end, we found [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&page=3 200 names of 18th-century writing women].<br><br>
 +'''Working on this scale requires adequate technical means.'''<br><br><br>
-3.<br>+'''3.'''<br>
-This '''large approach''' corresponds to present possibilities:+'''Technically this large approach and fruitful research collaboration correspond to present possibilities.'''<br><br>
-* online available: <br>+* online accessibility is increasing every day, in particular of: <br>
-** information about authors: [http://www.siefar.org www.siefar.org]<br>+** biographical information about ''authors'': [http://www.siefar.org www.siefar.org] <br>
-** texts: [http://www.charriere.nl www.charriere.nl] <br>+** digitized ''texts'': [http://www.charriere.nl www.charriere.nl] <br>
-** and also: information about contemporary reception, which is contained in numbers of documents and inventories accessible on the internet, in particular the periodical press (such as the Dutch ''Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen'': [http://www.e-laborate.nl www.e-laborate.nl]), or lists of translations (the one by Buisman in [http://www.dbnl.nl www.dbnl.nl]; [http://www.dbnl.nl/tekst/buis006popu01_01/buis006popu01_01_0093.htm#v104 ex.: translation of Mme Beccari]). <br>+** those documents to be used as sources for information about contemporary ''reception'' of women writers, which have been and are being digitized in the context of projects such as (taking only the Netherlands)<br>
-* possibility to create structures where these information and documents can be assembled per author (ex.: [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/author.asp?AuthorID=915 Mme Dunoyer]), in a collective enterprise where information and preliminary conclusions are shared and commented.<br><br><br>+*** [http://www.e-laborate.nl www.e-laborate.nl],<br>
 +*** [http://www.dbnl.nl www.dbnl.nl], <br>
 +*** [http://www.kb.nl/hrd/digi/ddd/index-en.html KB Databank of Digital Daily newspapers],<br>
 +*** [http://www.kb.nl/hrd/digi/dbc.html Digitalisering Bijzondere Collecties], <br>
 +* interconnecting these three "layers" of data in a database structure is possible, just as the sharing of the information, comments and preliminary conclusions in a virtual collaboratory.<br><br><br>
-''SOURCES''<BR><BR>+'''Some examples of source material'''<br><br>
-Different types in different countries: <br>+Their analyzing will allow to rewrite history and to write the history of historiography.<br>
* France:<br> * France:<br>
-** [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&authorName=&pseudonym=1&year=&personal=&professional=&bibliography=la+porte&notesfield=&Editor_ID=geen&pageSize=50 La Porte, ''Histoire littéraire des femmes françaises''] (1769)<br>+** [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&authorName=&pseudonym=1&year=&personal=&professional=&bibliography=la+porte&notesfield=&Editor_ID=geen&pageSize=50 La Porte, ''Histoire littéraire des femmes françaises''] (1769), [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/reception.asp?receptionID=18717 about Madeleine de Scudéry] <br>
-** [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=briquet&Rec_Title=&reference=&pageSize=50&order=a2.name Briquet, ''Dictionnaire historique''] (1804)+** [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=&pseudonym=1&bibliography=briquet&pageSize=50&order=a.name&page=2 Briquet, ''Dictionnaire historique''] (1804), about [http://siefar.org/DictionnaireFB/FBScuderyM.htm Scudéry] <br>
-** XXX <br>+** Jacquinet, Les femmes de France, poètes et prosateurs (1886), about [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/reception.asp?receptionID=20117 Scudéry]. <br><br>
* The Netherlands: <br> * The Netherlands: <br>
-** [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&authorName=&pseudonym=1&year=&personal=&professional=&bibliography=heinemeyer&notesfield=&Editor_ID=geen&pageSize=50 List Heinemeyer] <br>+** [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&authorName=&pseudonym=1&year=&personal=&professional=&bibliography=heinemeyer&notesfield=&Editor_ID=geen&pageSize=50 List Heinemeyer] (c. 1800)<br>
-** [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&media_ID=4&source_ID=154&pageSize=50&order=r.Year Correspondence Belle de Zuylen] <br>+** [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&media_ID=4&source_ID=154&pageSize=50&order=r.Year Correspondence Belle de Zuylen](1740-1805), about [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/reception.asp?receptionID=13163 Judith Bouiller] (1767) <br>
-** [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=1844&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&source_ID=936&pageSize=50&order=a2.name Van der Aa] <br><br>+** [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=&notesfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=1844&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&source_ID=936&pageSize=50&order=a2.name Van der Aa] (1846), about [http://www.dbnl.nl/tekst/aa__001nieu02_01/aa__001nieu02_01_0110.htm Maria van Dyk]. <br><br>

Current revision


Suzan van Dijk, Toward a collaborative research project




Preparing a Transnational and Internet-based Research Project
in Women's Writing (before 1900)


Hyperlinks below refer to the database WomenWriters, which – for the moment – contains in particular material concerning


Three Starting Points for Women's Literary Historiography:


1.
Women’s literature must be approached from a comparative and transnational angle.

This corresponds to historical realities too often neglected, such as:

  • parallel developments

e.g.: birth of women’s journalism

  • women's impact and influence transgressing national borders

e.g.: foreign reactions to works of now little known authors, such as Mme Benoist

  • the roles women played as cultural transmitters

e.g.: translating works by other women, as well as by men.

This decision implies the need of international collaboration.


2.
The reception of women’s writing in their own day is considered crucial for any attempt to estimate their historical significance.

Authors and texts should be approached from the side of their (international) reception, independently of the women’s having entered, later on, a literary, historical or feminist canon. This allows to do justice to long neglected authors such as Mme Leprince de Beaumont, provided that searching takes place in large-scale sources, perused completely or for certain periods selected at random:

A preliminary pilot has made clear that the Dutch literary field included much more than the about five 18th-century women till recently presented in historiography. While starting at the reading end, we found 200 names of 18th-century writing women.

Working on this scale requires adequate technical means.


3.
Technically this large approach and fruitful research collaboration correspond to present possibilities.

Some examples of source material

Their analyzing will allow to rewrite history and to write the history of historiography.







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