
This Beautiful Sisterhood of Booksย is a collaborative space. Its purpose is to foster a community of scholars and readers working together to interpret and re-interpret an extraordinary โ and all but forgotten โ episode from womenโs literary and cultural history.
Our project contributes to the ongoing recovery of forgotten works by early women writers, and it provides a framework for exploring their significance to readers in 1884 and today. Here are some ways that you, your students, and your community members can Join the Sisterhood!
We invite research and writing about Maudโs Beautiful Sisterhood of Books that examines questions about:
We especially invite research and writing that asks questions we havenโt yet thought to ask. If you would like to contribute original research or assign research projects to your students,ย contact usย to propose topics. We can provide guidelines and examples, and we welcome your suggestions.
Kate Adams is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Kimmerling Chair in Womenโs Literature. She co-edits Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and is the author of Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Womenโs Life Writing (Oxford 2009). Her essays about gender and race in early US literature and culture have appeared in numerous edited collections and journals, including American Literary History, J19, Arizona Quarterly, Hypatia, and ESQ.
Jacquelyne Thoni Howard is a Senior Professor of Practice at the Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science at Tulane University. As a historian, her teaching and research center on digital humanities, critical data studies, data literacy education, and the history of information. She is a founding co-editor of the nationally recognized guide and edited volume, titled Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online. She has published works relating to the History of Science and Technology Studies and Digital Humanities Labs.
Susan Tucker is an archival consultant specializing in the manuscripts and private records of families. Between 1985 and 2015, she oversaw the Newcomb Archives and the Vorhoff Library at Tulane University. Among her publications are Telling Memories Among Southern Women, The Scrapbook in American Culture (with Katherine Ott and Patrician Buckler) and City of Remembering (University Press of Mississippi, 2017). She was awarded the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.
This project depends on the generous contributions of resaerchers, archivists, technologists, and educators.
Content Developer
Technical Developer
Content Developer
Data Research Intern
Content Developer
Research Assistant
Digital Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Data Research Intern
Content Developer
Data Research Intern
Content Developer
Data Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Content Developer
Content Developer
Data Research Intern
Data Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Data Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Content Developer
Digital Research Intern
Data Research Intern
Data Research Intern
Data Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Data Research Intern
Data Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Data Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Content Developer
Content Developer
Digital Research Intern
Content Developer
Digital Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Digital Research Intern
Content Developer
Digital Research Intern
Data Research Intern
This project depends on the generous funding of institutes and foundations.

Tulane University
