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Iris Murdoch's "Poems from an Attic", published this month, divided reviewers. Light on her love-life: ooh! Attic junk: bah! (True, some scraps would never have seen print if she or John Bayley had been alive.) We hope the powerful, scorching metaphors (many of Love as destroyer) won't go unnoticed.
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Iris Murdoch's "Poems from an Attic", published this month, divided reviewers. Light on her love-life: ooh! Attic junk: bah! (True, some scraps would never have seen print if she or John Bayley had been alive.) We hope the powerful, scorching metaphors (many of Love as destroyer) won't go unnoticed.
Zadie Smith’s new "Dead and Alive" sets us a challenge. It reproves the variously “furious, defensive, melancholy and tragic,” even "unhinged", tone of some lives of forgotten literary women. Orlando aims to point out wrongs but to uncover and rejoice at talent realised. How do you like our tone?
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Zadie Smith’s new "Dead and Alive" sets us a challenge. It reproves the variously “furious, defensive, melancholy and tragic,” even "unhinged", tone of some lives of forgotten literary women. Orlando aims to point out wrongs but to uncover and rejoice at talent realised. How do you like our tone?
Next up is the team's dataset, Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022), and introductory data essay, published with the Post-45 Data Collective. Congratulations again to Orlando associates Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Maryse Jayasuriya, and Theo Gray! data.post45.org/posts/britis...
Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective
The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...
data.post45.org
June 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Next up is the team's dataset, Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022), and introductory data essay, published with the Post-45 Data Collective. Congratulations again to Orlando associates Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Maryse Jayasuriya, and Theo Gray! data.post45.org/posts/britis...
Congratulations to Orlando associates Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Maryse Jayasuriya, and Theo Gray on the publication of their work on contemporary literary prizes for women writers. First, their article on "Why We Still Need a Women's Prize for Fiction": theconversation.com/why-we-still...
Why we still need a women’s prize for fiction
Some ways we will know we no longer need women’s book prizes: when men read as much writing by women as that by men, and when women begin to dominate prizes for prestige genres such as non-fiction.
theconversation.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Congratulations to Orlando associates Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Maryse Jayasuriya, and Theo Gray on the publication of their work on contemporary literary prizes for women writers. First, their article on "Why We Still Need a Women's Prize for Fiction": theconversation.com/why-we-still...
Today's the day! Orlando's free access, celebrating Women's History Month, begins. Read more on our blog: www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/orlando/free...
Free access to Orlando during Women's History Month - The Orlando Project
We’re happy to announce that the entire textbase is open 1-31 March. The team thanks our publisher, Cambridge University Press, for making this possible. To use Orlando, click the “Log in” button in the top-right corner of the homepage and enter the following information: Email: [email protected] Password: free-Orlando Orlando’s current content statistics are as follows: News Since Orlando’s last ... Read more
www.artsrn.ualberta.ca
March 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Today's the day! Orlando's free access, celebrating Women's History Month, begins. Read more on our blog: www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/orlando/free...
For the late-night crowd: our textbase will been down at 10 pm MST for software updates. Thanks for your patience!
February 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
For the late-night crowd: our textbase will been down at 10 pm MST for software updates. Thanks for your patience!
The omens are good. An Orlando search on “blue sky” gives this. Lydia Child in the USA, 1836, turned back from political to imaginative writing and felt “like Pegasus, the winged horse of poetry” in captivity, catching “a glimpse of the far blue-sky,” snapping his chains and spreading his wings.
February 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The omens are good. An Orlando search on “blue sky” gives this. Lydia Child in the USA, 1836, turned back from political to imaginative writing and felt “like Pegasus, the winged horse of poetry” in captivity, catching “a glimpse of the far blue-sky,” snapping his chains and spreading his wings.
And the textbase is live again. orlando.cambridge.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
And the textbase is live again. orlando.cambridge.org
Today, the textbase is down due to software updates. We’ll post again once it’s up and running. Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
February 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Today, the textbase is down due to software updates. We’ll post again once it’s up and running. Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
We’ll celebrate Women’s History Month as usual, with free access to the Orlando textbase throughout March.
February 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We’ll celebrate Women’s History Month as usual, with free access to the Orlando textbase throughout March.
Hello all! Our team is pleased to be here. Follow us for news about our feminist literary-historical textbase, orlando.cambridge.org, and women’s writing more generally.
February 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hello all! Our team is pleased to be here. Follow us for news about our feminist literary-historical textbase, orlando.cambridge.org, and women’s writing more generally.