Victorian Women Writers' Project

• Host: Indiana University Library of Electronic Text Resources (LETRS)
• URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html

Description:

The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them.

Texts will be encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines, using the TEILite.DTD (version 1.6) We will include with each text a header describing fully the source text, the editorial decisions, and the resulting computer file. The texts will be made freely available through the World Wide Web.

About 200 texts are currently available; they can be downloaded in either HTML or SGML. The site also includes information on works in preparation and proposed works.

– Victorian Women Writers Project WWW Home Page

Articles:

• Willett, Perry. The Victorian Women Writers Project: The Library as a Creator and Publisher of Electronic Texts. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, Vol. 7, No. 6 (1996). (Refereed Article)
  • HTML version: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n6/will7n6.html
  • ASCII version: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n6/willett.7n6
  • Listserv: Send email message GET WILLETT PRV7N6 F=MAIL to listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu.

Contact:

Perry Willett

General Editor

Victorian Women Writers Project

Indiana University

Email: pwillett@indiana.edu