One of the reasons I started the blog was to give updates on progress and share discoveries as they come up, as well as offer transparency into what the process is of making a descriptive bibliography. In order to make that work, of course, it would help to show where we’re starting and what I’m working on at the moment. I’ll be putting up another post later to talk about how I’m doing the work, but for now, I’ll stick to in media res and get more into process later.
Current Status: As of this week, I have the completed the following:
- Finished preliminary data gathering* for 11 titles, including:
- Poems Upon Several Occasions
- The Life of Harriot Stuart
- The Female Quixote
- Memoirs of the Duke of Sully
- Memoirs for the History of Madame de Maintenon
- The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy
- Memoirs of the Countess of Berci
- History of the Count de Comminge
- Philander
- Shakespear Illustrated
- Euphemia
- Started collecting data on Henrietta
- Converted data from two of these titles into a combined spreadsheet for test purposes
- Worked on learning how to use pivot tables to get interesting data
- Created a test data set to start playing with Tableau to see about data visualizations, particularly those involving generating maps
*Publication of excerpts in periodicals remains a tricky point, as those are hard to track down.
Upcoming Tasks: Keep working on preliminary data, start verifying entries on library web sites, keep working on Excel and Tableau skills
Challenges: Periodical info, as mentioned above. Keep working on fleshing out this website with info and links. Manage to keep moving forward while I finish the semester and the grading.
Lennox Bibliography Project 
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