Recovering from Collective Memory Loss: the Digital Mitford’s feminist project.

This article considers the impact of the digital turn on feminist efforts to restore value to women's literature of past centuries, and positions the Digital Mitford project as a next step in site-specific excavation following the large-scale surveys of women writers of the Orlando Project and the W...

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Published in:Women's History Review Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 738 - 751
Main Authors: Beshero-Bondar, Elisa, Raisanen, Elizabeth
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Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2017
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          Center for the Digital Text and Department of English, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Greensburg, PA, USA
          Undergraduate Advising and Literature, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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        Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855
        British women authors
        Authors' correspondence
        Digitization of library materials
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