Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840: A Bio-Bibliographical Database
- Submitting institution
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University of Wolverhampton
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 39
- Type
- S - Research data sets and databases
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- Location
- https://btw.wlv.ac.uk/
- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This longer-form output is based on collection/analysis of a large body of material. Research and incremental publishing of 430 entries span the assessment period and include British Academy funded archival research (2016-18). The 222 bibliographical entries involved compiling a comprehensive dataset of British travel writings published from 1780-1840 (3,853 titles); identifying titles specifically associated with women; verifying, inspecting, and transcribing these first hand (including anonymous works); identifying epigraphs and dedicatees; and compiling publishing histories and reviews. Biographical entries (208) derive from a comprehensive review of existing biographical research as well as original investigations into period print records and manuscript material.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Until the online publication of Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840 (WTW), travel writing studies lacked a comprehensive longitudinal bibliography of women’s travel writing with which to evidence anecdotal analysis of women’s contribution to the genre and its sub-genres, the authorial roles women assumed within it, and the publishing and print context. While not an analytic output in itself, WTW makes possible authoritative analysis of Romantic Period women’s travel writing, and as such provides a freely accessible and fully searchable online bio-bibliographical database located at https://www.british-travel-writing.org/. The output comprises 222 text entries, 208 biographical entries, search and browse pages, project information pages, and a news page. First published online in July 2014, the database has been continually augmented throughout the REF assessment period, benefitting from a two-year British Academy Funded archival research project (2016-18): Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840: Communities of Authorship. By 30 December 2020 WTW had accrued 116,032 page views by 24,595 users globally. WTW is a sub-set of a larger project: its bibliographical text entries were based on a comprehensive review of bibliographical sources for all period travel writings; identification (by inspection) of titles conforming to genre and content criteria (3,853 titles); and identification from these of titles specifically associated with women. The WTW corpus was then subject to first-hand (re)inspection, transcription, and verification (identifying, where possible, anonymous works). Supplementary research identified epigraphs, dedicatees, and compiled publishing histories and lists of reviews. Biographical entries (208) derive from a review of relevant scholarship, period print records, and manuscript material. Archival research supplements print biographical research on 14 better-known and 34 lesser-known writers; 101 entries treat writers who are not represented in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography or commensurate sources.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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