A Digital edition dissertation project
Project Website: www.elizabethgaskelljournal.com
The purpose of the Elizabeth Gaskell Journal: Digital Edition is to create an online, openly accessible edition of a single Gaskell text, Elizabeth Gaskell's manuscript diary. This new edition provides a new transcription of the text, fully encoded in TEI-XML. Images of the journal's manuscript pages have been facilitated and implemented through IIIF frameworks. Additionally, the Elizabeth Gaskell Journal - Digital Edition offers contextual information including a scholarly Introduction, annotations, editorial notes, as well as a full prosopography identifying important individuals, texts, and geographic locations referenced in the journal. The project files are stored within this GitHub repository.
The Elizabeth Gaskell Journal: Digital Edition has been undertaken as a fulfilment of dissertation requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in the English Department at Michigan State University. This digital edition of the journal aims to make the text and facsimile images available to a broader audience, both scholars interested in Gaskell's life writing, and fans of her work who wish to delve more deeply into her writing beyond the novels.
The Gaskell Journal has been placed by Gaskell's descendants, the holders of its copyright, in the Special Collections of the Brotherton Library in Leeds, UK. The journal is approximately 80 pages in length, written when novelist Elizabeth Gaskell's eldest surviving daughter, Marianne, was between the ages of six months (March 1835) and four years old (October 1838). I am grateful to Mrs. Sarah Prince, Gaskell's descendant and the copyright holder, for her gracious permission to reproduce the journal in this edition.