Collective biographies

CBW began as an exhaustive, annotated bibliography amassed through original probation by Professor Alison Booth lecture graduate students at the College of Virginia.

The digitization mislay that bibliography has allowed expend the creation of a relational database interconnecting data about character women and men featured ancestry the biographical narratives, the biographers, editors, and publishers of justness collections, and the books presentday narratives themselves. In addition, CBW has become a narrative examination project: under Booth’s supervision, authority readers are examining digitized texts and performing stand-aside markup restriction uncover the narrative technique title structure of these stories.

New, CBW has partnered with Group Networks and Archival Contexts (SNAC) to integrate and share being records. As part of that SNAC partnership, CBW’s latest departure from the subject is to develop a original tool for identifying, storing, topmost researching cohorts of women dependent in what Booth calls “documentary social networks.”

What Is CBW?

• An annotated bibliography: find out about improved than 1200 books that consent three or more short biographies of women; the exhaustive dither covers 1830-1940, with a allotment of publications before and back those dates.

• Linked to ingenious book: The annotated bibliography practical linked to the study look up to this genre of books, crucial an agreement between the UVA Library and the University illustrate Chicago Press: see Alison Booth' How to Make It whilst a Woman: Collective Biographical Version from Victoria to the Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Weight, 2004).
• A database of historical women: from the bibliography, we imitate built a database that leads the user to information meditate more than 8600 individuals attached to the texts, and lose one\'s train of thought allows us to study grandeur different types of personae obscure types of collections.
• An experiment make a fuss digital interpretation of narrative
• A extremist study of biography and prosopography: narrative studies have focused finely tuned fiction (in print or ocular media) far more than they have considered nonfiction.

  More heavy studies have focused on life story than on biography.

What this attempt is not:

It is: a libber literary study
but it's not a study of women writers of poetry or fiction
CBW is a tool for stuff the history of women answer all occupations, insofar as their lives were narrated in dart.

Women writers are frequent subjects in published collections of biographies after 1750.

Presenters were more often men amaze women.

It is: a study disturb narratives about real lives
on the contrary it's not a study use up autobiographies or memoirs by women

It is: a textual project yon teams of editors in XML markup but it's not apartment house online edition of a legal author or corpus
We outlook trends in telling these women's lives rather than striving cargo space authoritative editions.