
This Beautiful Sisterhood of Books is a collaborative space. Its purpose is to foster a community of scholars and readers working together to reconstruct an extraordinary – and all but forgotten – episode from women’s 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 Maud’s beautiful sisterhood of books that examines questions about its racial, class, and sectional politics; or its importance as an episode in library or literary or exposition history. And we especially invite research and writing that asks questions we haven’t yet thought to ask. If you would like to contribute original research, or assign research projects to your students, contact us to propose topics. We can provide guidelines and examples, and we welcome your suggestions.
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Kate Adams is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Kimmerling Chair in Women’s Literature. She co-edits Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and has served as guest editor for special issues of Legacy (with Sandra Zagarell and Caroline Gebhard, 2016) and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (2009) that focus on intersections of race and gender in women’s writing. She is author of Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing (Oxford 2009). Her essays about 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, research, and mentoring work centers on digital humanities, critical data studies, data literacy education, and history of information. She is a founding co-editor of the nationally recognized guide Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online and co-editor of an edited volume with the same title. She has published journal articles and chapters about social and cultural topics 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. There she was best known for work on the papers of Newcomb Pottery, scrapbooks, and oral history projects. 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.
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This project depends on the generous funding of institutes and foundations.

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