by Annika Heijna
One of the worst feelings as a student is when you realize that no one apart from your professor is ever going to read that meticulously researched, spend-hours-making-the-bibliography-just-right paper you’re so proud of. All those hours of work we are putting into our assignments are basically lost once it is determined that the quality is sufficient for a passing grade – the...
The Modernist Archives Publishing Project presents Transatlantic Modernist Publishing
Thursday, July 8th - 8AM PT; 11AM ET; 4PM BST
Speakers include:
Elisha Bolchi (Università degli Studi di Ferrara) on Virginia Woolf and Mondadori Editore
Amy Clements (St. Edward's University) on Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Michele Troy (Hartford University) on The Albatross Press
Case-studies followed by Q&A...
As we look to expand the transatlantic dimensions of the MAPP database over the next three years with new materials from American publishing archives, I’ve been assessing the evidence we have currently in the database regarding the Woolfs’ correspondence with American publishing houses.
The Hogarth Press worked with various publishers to produce American editions of Hogarth Press texts. The...
Upon opening the new folder of images to which I am adding metadata for MAPP, I am greeted by the first image, a profit and loss statement typical of the Hogarth Press. It looks similar to the other profit and loss statements I’ve encountered from the publishing house, comparing the projected printing, distribution, and advertising costs to estimated book sales, an indication of Leonard Woolf’s...
As an archivist working behind the scenes on the MAPP project, I am fortunate to be able to catalogue to item level - this means instead of generally describing a batch, or series of correspondence, I have the opportunity to read and describe every letter within a folder. Often, I have the chance to discover interesting aspects about certain folders. It is a privilege to catalogue the chosen MAPP...
This summer, Lily Nilipour and Khuyen Le, Stanford undergraduates working in English, Comparative Literature, and Symbolic Systems, worked remotely for Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) to help the MAPP team think about a redesign of the website. They did a fantastic job, and here is their blog post on the process of reenvisioning a site to help our viewers and users...
The question of interfaces can be a vexed one for digital projects. Research-based projects are often discouraged from focusing too much on interface design, especially because digitization, robust metadata schema and creation, and careful archival description tend to be investments that can last for decades, whereas interfaces change with rapidly shifting tastes, softwares, and design trends....
As a project archivist working on MAPP, with this blog I hope to introduce myself, and to reveal some of the behind the scenes work taking place whilst we build this digital archive.
From the beginning I've been very excited by this project. The aspect that I admire most about it is that one of its aims is to break down barriers for its audience. For an archivist, access is vital. A digital...
Doing some day-to-day editing work for MAPP, I find myself trying to track down a “dummy or mock up” (a lorem ipsum or placeholder copy) of Libby Benedict’s The Refugees (1938), once owned, according to my own cryptic notes from a while ago, by Williams College in Massachusetts. Libby Benedict’s biography has just appeared at MAPP, authored by eminent Woolf scholar Diane F. Gillespie, Professor...
Helen Southworth and Nicola Wilson were interviewed about Woolf and the press for an episode of French Culture, part of a series of programs hosted by Italian/French novelist Simonetta Greggio.
Take a look and listen!
https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/grandes-traversees-virginia-woolf-la-traversee-des-apparences/devenir-editrice-et-feministe-tuer-lange-du-foyer
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