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This project studies the journalism work of Isabella Beeton, during her career as a journalist and editor at the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, prior to her fame for the 1861 Book of Household Management. It also looks closely at patterns in the correspondence material, and explores ways that the nineteenth-century periodical press prefigures and informs our understanding of texts and collaborative knowledge production in the digital world.
[Text of Abstract will be here once approved.]
Once my degree is finalized, a PDF version of my project will be available at the link below.
If you have a specific question feel free to reach out to me.
The index allows instant access to all 27 years of the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine.
The TXT file corpus can be used for a variety of textual analysis purposes, or expanded upon with further transcription. I would love to talk about these options with anyone interested.
The OER (open educational resources) are meant to be freely used, remixed, and put to work.
You are welcome to try them out in any non-commercial setting and adapt them to meet your needs.
Email is usually easiest: juliesorgeway at gmail dot com will find me.
Several other platforms are listed on my profile page and website.
The banner image was created in Microsoft Designer using two Wikimedia Commons images, one of Isabella Beeton and one of the September 1861 cover of the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine.
This blue cover was designed for the second series rebranding while Isabella Beeton was working as an editor.
