On Encoding Difficult Texts
By Alicia Svenson, Ph.D. Student, History I was asked to finish encoding a text that had been languishing in the WWP’s “under construction” holding area since 2014. Opening the file up, it was clear that Clara Reeve’s Plans of Education; With Remarks on the System of Other Writers. In a Series of Letters between Mrs. Darnford and her Friends (1792) was not going to be like previous texts I had encoded, such as Lucretia Mott’s famous polemic about women’s rights,…