Wild white roses from my backyard (which I just learned are invasive). Alas.
Welcome back, gentle readers! Now that the semester is over (or hopefully nearly so) I hope the summer is treating you kindly and providing needed rest and relaxation. As for me, I start teaching an online evening class next week that I am not quite done planning for, but I will be by the time we get to it.
I’m also thrilled to announce that I had my first book review published! I had the pleasure of reviewing Stephen Ramsay’s On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations in ABO: Interactive Journal of Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. It was a relatively painless process, and the staff were communicative and gave excellent feedback — I’d be very happy to work with them again in the future.
As to the LBP, I’m happy to announce that I’m back to it. I’ve been verifying libraries and titles (Cornell’s Rare and Manuscript Collection, we’re going to be spending some time together in the future). I’m debating putting in for the Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship for next year — they don’t have a huge number of books I need, but the ones they have are significant and I should be far enough along by then to make use of it. My goal for the summer is to make some real headway in verifying content and to make some initial rough passes at some local copies and make decisions about how the data is going to work for the actual bibliography portion.
Number of libraries confirmed: 74
Number of libraries entered into the database: 2
Number of extant copies confirmed: 367 (not counting anything at Oxford)
Lennox Bibliography Project 