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Towards the epistolarium: issues in researching and publishing the Olive Schreiner letters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Liz Stanley  and
Helen Dampier
Liz Stanley
Affiliation:
Universities of Edinburgh
Helen Dampier
Affiliation:
Leeds Metropolitan
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The Olive Schreiner Letters Project (OSLP) is making use of ‘personal papers’ associated with, amongst a number of other important concerns, the history of Southern Africa, and doing so in an innovative way. The OSLP is transcribing and analysing all of the extant letters of the feminist, social theorist and writer Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), and will contribute theoretically and methodologically to the use of letters and other epistolary materials in social science and humanities research. In addition, the project will publish in digital format transcripts of the complete Schreiner letters, which will be free access. The project is funded by the ESRC (RES-062-23-1286), and is multi-site, led by principal investigator Professor Liz Stanley, and with research and technical teams based at the universities of Edinburgh, Leeds Metropolitan and Sheffield.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 113 , 2010 , pp. 27 - 32
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Copyright © International African Institute 2010

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