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By Sarah Storti on February 20, 2013
A long, long time ago I wrote a blog post about how this year’s NINES Fellows were going to be working on a digital project called The Shelley-Godwin Archive. Back then we were particularly excited about the project because it was going to be a collaborative one–we needed to figure out how (or whether!) two groups […]
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By Emma Schlosser on November 7, 2012
Here is an illuminated page from a 1910 edition of Shelley’s lesser known poem “The Sensitive Plant.” This ornate (and perhaps a bit ostentatious) illustration of Shelley’s non-canonical poem reminds us of the value once attached to literature now overlooked. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
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By Elizabeth Fox on October 3, 2012
In honor of the SGA @ UVa team’s forthcoming work on Mary Shelley’s manuscript of Frankenstein, this week’s image features T. P. Cooke in the role of the monster. His performance not only pleased Shelley herself, but also helped to set the tone for future melodramatic adaptations of her work. This image comes to us […]
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By Dana Wheeles on March 26, 2012
From the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library comes this beautiful portrait of Ada Byron: writer, mathematician and daughter of the poet Lord Byron. Painted around 1835, this portrait depicts the future Countess of Lovelace as a teenager, just as her interest and talent in mathematics became […]
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By Dana Wheeles on January 6, 2010
If you’ve been searching in NINES over the past month, you may have noticed the quiet addition of a few new resources. We’ve continued working with the folks at Intelex to integrate material from the Past Masters Series relevant to nineteenth-century studies, including: The Complete Works and Letters of Jane Austen, containing the Oxford University […]
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By Dana Wheeles on December 8, 2009
In an effort to provide a more robust selection of Romantic era resources in NINES, our most recent additions from the Past Masters Series come from the oeuvre of just one author. The Journals and The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley are now fully searchable in our Collex interface, thanks to the generosity […]
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By Dana Wheeles on November 12, 2009
NINES’ partnership with the Past Masters series expands today with the release of our newest addition, The Romantic Age. Comprising over 4,000 new objects, this database includes the correspondence of many important figures of the Romantic Age including William Blake, Maria Edgeworth, J.M.W. Turner, and Fanny Brawne. Follow the link to this saved search to browse the […]
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By Dana Wheeles on September 17, 2009
Thanks to a partnership with the humanities resource provider InteLex, NINES has added the first of several databases from the exceptional Past Masters Series: The Collected Letters of the Wordsworths. This electronic edition includes the collected letters of William, Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth as well as the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth and selected correspondence of […]
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