What’s a 21st Century Feminist To Do?
By Emily Sullivan, English PhD student and DITI Assistant Director Introduction I began reading Hannah Webster Foster’s (1798) The Boarding School; Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils with every intention of analytically chopping it for parts. During my first weekly encoding meeting with the Women Writers Project (WWP), newcomers were tasked with claiming an unencoded text, and Foster’s The Boarding School was perpetually pitched down the line, as the group shared a sentiment of distaste for the inevitable eye rolls and frustrated sighs that would…