This is a list of publications and conferences that have been written and presented by WPHP team members relating to or coming out of their work on the project. Team members' names are shown in bold.
Publications
2024
Levy, Michelle. “‘A volume of manuscript poems &&’: Phillis Wheatley’s lost book and a found proposal.” Eighteenth-Century Life. 2024 (48:1): 183-216.
Ozment, Kate and Kandice Sharren. “‘Come buy this book of me’: Commodifying Difference in the Marketing of English Books from 1750-1830.” Gender and the Book Trades. Edited by Elise Watson and Jessica Farrell-Jobst. Brill, 2025. (in press)
Ozment, Kate. “Catherine Sanger: Publisher in Bartholomew Close.” The People of Print: 1700-1800. Edited by Adam Smith, Rachel Stenner, and Kaley Kramer. Cambridge University Press Elements Series in Publishing and Book Cultures, 2024. (in press)
Ozment, Kate. “Digital Bibliography in the Age of Linked Data.” Journal for Early Modern Studies (forthcoming, 2024)
2023
Levy, Michelle. “William Upcott’s Autograph Mania.” A History of the Futures of Handwriting in Early America. University of Massachusetts Press, 2023. 236-250.
Ozment, Kate. The Hroswitha Club and the Impact of Women Book Collectors. Cambridge UP Elements, 2023.
Ozment, Kate. “Teaching a Feminist Book History.” In Teaching the History of the Book, edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily B. Todd. U of Massachusetts P, 2023, pp. 36–43.
2022
Levy, Michelle. “John Murray’s Principal Women of Letters.” Women in Print 2: Production, Distribution and Consumption. (Peter Lang: 2022): 101-124.
Maruca, Lisa, and Kate Ozment, eds. “New Approaches to Critical Bibliography and the Material Text.” Special issue of Criticism, vol. 64, nos. 3-4, Summer/Fall 2022. With a co-written introduction, “What is Critical Bibliography?” pp. 231–236.
Penn, Sara. “Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Authorship.” Critical Insights, edited by Laura Nicosia and James Nicosia, Salem Press, 2022, pp. 3–18.
Sharren, Kandice. "Landscaping the Three-Volume Novel: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park." The Review of English Studies, vol. 73, no. 311, September 2022, pp. 728–45.
Sharren, Kandice, and Kate Moffatt. “From Print to Process: Gender, Creative-Adjacent Labour and the Women’s Print History Project.” Women In Print: Distribution, and Consumption: Volume 2, edited by Helen S. Williams, Peter Lang, 2022, pp. 77–100.
Davis, Leith, Taylor Breckles, Shauna Irani, Dana Graham Lai, Joey Takeda, Emma Trotter, and Julianna Wagar. “Female Rebels”: Highlighting Women’s Voices in Robert Forbes’s “The Lyon in Mourning.” The International Review of Scottish Studies, vol. 47, 2022, pp. 77–92.
2021
Irwin, Reese. “Elizabeth Newbery, Publisher and Bookseller in Her Own Right: A Case Study from the Women’s Print History Project.” Women in Print: Design and (Re)construction of Personal histories: Volume 1, edited by Rose Roberto, Peter Lang, forthcoming.
Levy, Michelle. “Female Booksellers at the End of the Long Eighteenth Century.” Women in Book History, 1660-1830, special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg and Michelle Levy, vol. 84, no. 1, Spring 2021, pp. 99–112.
Levy, Michelle. “John Murray’s Principal Women of Letters.” Women In Print: Distribution, and Consumption: Volume 2, edited by Helen S. Williams, Peter Lang, forthcoming 2021.
Levy, Michelle, and Betty A. Schellenberg. “Hiding in Plain Sight.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 84, no. 1, Spring 2021, pp. 205-212.
Levy, Michelle, and Betty A. Schellenberg. How and Why to Do Things With Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts. Cambridge UP Elements, 2021.
Levy, Michelle, and Betty A. Schellenberg. “Women, Book History, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Taking Stock, Moving Forward.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 84, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1-3.
Levy, Michelle, and Kate Moffatt. "Book History without Old Books." Essays in Romanticism, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 145-16.
Levy, Michelle, Kate Ozment, and Andrew O. Winckles. “Beyond Authorship: Reconstructing Women’s Literary Labor.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 84. No. 1, Spring 2021, pp. 123-124.
Sharren, Kandice, Kate Ozment, and Michelle Levy. “Gendering Digital Bibliography with the Women’s Print History Project.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 54, no. 4, Summer 2021, pp. 887–908.
2020
Colligan, Colette, Kimberly O’Donnell, and Kandice Sharren. “Digital Pedagogy.” Digital Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020. http://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.382
Levy, Michelle. “Bookmaking and Archiving in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Notebooks.” In After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures, edited by Rachael Scarborough King. U of Virginia P, 2020. 95-120.
Levy, Michelle. “Liberal Reformers.” Mary Wollstonecraft in Context. Ed. Nancy Johnson and Paul Keen. Cambridge UP, 2020. 119-126.
Levy, Michelle. Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain. Edinburgh UP, 2020.
Levy, Michelle. “A New Republic of Women’s Letters.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 49, no. 4, Winter 2020, pp. 519–533.
Levy, Michelle. “Women and the Book in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century.” Literature Compass, vol. 17, no. 9, 2020, pp. 1–13.
Moffatt, Kate, and Kandice Sharren. “Black Women and Female Abolitionists in Print.” Romanticism on the Net, no. 74–75, 2020. https://ronjournal.org/s/6306
Sharren, Kandice, and Kate Moffatt. “Absence and Feeling: Documenting Invisible Labour on the Women’s Print History Project.” Digital Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020. http://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.375
2018
Levy, Michelle, et. al. Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation. U of Chicago P, 2018.
2017
Levy, Michelle, and Reese Irwin. “The Female Authors of Cadell and Davies.” Women’s Literary Networks and Romanticism: “A Tribe of Authoresses.” Liverpool UP, 2017.
Levy, Michelle, and Tom Mole. The Broadview Introduction to Book History. Broadview P, 2017.
Conferences
2024
Levy, Michelle. “Women Writers and the Making of Printed Books,” Plenary, “Romantic Making and Unmaking,” University of Glasgow, July 22-26.
Levy, Michelle. “Reading Women’s (Print and Manuscript) Books from Cover to Cover,” “Books In and Out of Time: Genres and Formats of Media History, 1700-1900,” University of Passau, 17-19 July.
Wagar, Julianna. "A Royal Printer: The Material Output of Agnes Campbell in Scotland's Book Trade." American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Toronto, ON.
Cong-Huyen, Anne, Pamella R. Lach, Crystal Luo, Kate Ozment, Caitlin Pollock, Amanda Visconti, and Brandon Walsh. “In SoliDHarity: Forming, Practicing, and Defending Our Values.” Association for Computers in the Humanities. Virtual.
Ozment, Kate. “Gender Solidarity in the British Book Trades.” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Toronto, ON.
Ozment, Kate. “Richard Burleigh is a Ghost: Digital Bibliography in the Age of Linked Data.” Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. San Francisco, CA.
2023
Wagar, Julianna. "Righting Mrs. Wright's Wrongs: 'A Desultory Disquisition on the Qualifications of a [Male] Midwife." Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Montreal, QC.
Wagar, Julianna. "The Romanticization of Flora MacDonald." Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Montreal, QC.
Davis, Leith, and Julianna Wagar. “Women and/in Jacobite Media Networks: A Digital Humanities Investigation of Robert Forbes’s ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript.” Women, Literary Networks, and Media Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. 12 May, Vancouver, BC.
Levy, Michelle. "Women Readers of the British Museum." Women, Literary Networks, and Media Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. 11 May, Vancouver, BC.
Moffatt, Kate. "Mapping Alice Reilly (Dublin Printer-Publisher, 1741-67)." Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual conference. 18 February, California State University Northridge, CA.
Ozment, Kate. UoT 2023 BHPC Graduate Student Colloquium. 17 March, online. Plenary speaker.
Wachowich, Angela. “‘Candidates for the Palm of Fame’: Anna Seward, Canon Formation, and the Reputational Economy.” Women, Literary Networks, and Media Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. 12 May, Vancouver, BC.
Wagar, Julianna. "So long thy Name, thy Praises shall remain": Reclaiming the Cultural Memory of Flora MacDonald." British Association for Romantic Studies. 16 June, Edinburgh, UK.
Wagar, Julianna. "A Royal Printer: Recovering the Success of Agnes Campbell in Scotland’s Book Trade." Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual conference. 18 February, California State University Northridge, CA.
2022
Levy, Michelle. “Everyday Women Who Made Book History: The Stainforth Project as a Digital Compass.” Keats-Shelley Association. 30 September [online chair].
Levy, Michelle, and Belle Eist. “Original Letters by Eminent Women,” NASSR/RC Pedagogy Award Panel. With Belle Eist. NASSR/BARS, Online, June.
Levy, Michelle. “Unediting Dorothy Wordsworth’s DCMS 120.” NASSR/BARS, Online, June.
Penn, Sara. “A Bibliographical Case Study of Ann Lemoine, England’s First Female Chapbook Publisher.” SHARP annual conference. 15 July, online.
Penn, Sara. “‘Cultural Leftovers’: Cheap Print and Women’s Labour.” DH+BH: an Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Humanities and Book History. 23 September, online.
Penn, Sara. “Down the Bibliographical Rabbit Hole: Documenting Cheap Print and Women’s Labour.” Broadside Extra! Street Literature and Cheap Print annual conference. 15 October, online.
Penn, Sara. “Reimagining Bibliography: the Curious Case of Ann Lemoine, England’s First Female Chapbook Publisher.” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, 26-29 October, Ottawa, ON.
Wagar, Julianna. “A Female Journey Through Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Comparing Elizabeth Isabella Spence's Female Genealogy to Anne Grant's Genderless Persona.” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, 26-29 October, Ottawa, ON.
McCue, Kirsteen, and, Julianna Wagar. "Jacobite Songs and Singing Jacobites." Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present Symposium. Guelph, ON.
Wagar, Julianna. "Women in 'The Lyon in Mourning.'" New Perspectives on 'The Lyon in Mourning' Manuscript of Robert Forbes Symposium. Edinburgh, UK.
2021
Levy, Michelle. "The Women's Print History Project." University of Toronto's Lightning Lunch – Digital Literary Archives, 5 January, online.
Penn, Sara. "Ann Lemoine's Prostitute Chapbooks." Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, 13-16 October, online.
Wachowich, Angela. “Retrospective Editing and Poetic Ambition in Folger MS M.a. 182.” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, 13-16 October, online.
2020
Levy, Michelle. “Collaboration in the Middle.” Digital Humanities Conference, 29–31 October, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Roundtable participant.
2019
Irwin, Reese, Michelle Levy, Sara Penn, and Kandice Sharren. “The Women's Print History Project, 1750-1836.” History of Women's Writing and Publishing in Canada and Britain Conference, 30 April, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.
Levy, Michelle. “The New Republic of Women’s Letters.” Boston Area Romanticist Colloquium, Romanticism in a New Key: A Symposium in Honor of Jerome McGann, 6 April, Boston University Centre for the Humanities, Boston, MA. Plenary speaker.
Penn, Sara. “The Women's Print History Project.” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, 16–19 October 2019, Quebec City, QC. Roundtable participant.
2018
Irwin, Reese. “Elizabeth Newbery, Publisher and Bookseller in Her Own Right: A Case Study from the Women’s Print History Project, 1750–1830.” Women in Print Conference, 13–14 September, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Levy, Michelle. “The Female Authors of John Murray.” Women in Print Conference, 13–14 September, University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK.
Levy, Michelle. “Towards a Women’s History of Print.” Symposium on Women in Book History 1660-1836, 15–18 August, Vancouver, BC.
Levy, Michelle, and Betty A. Schellenberg. Women in Book History Symposium, 1660-1836. 15–17 August 2018, Vancouver, BC. Co-host.
Moffatt, Kate, and Kandice Sharren. “Recovering Eighteenth-Century Women in the Book Trades with The Women’s Print History Project, 1750–1836.” SFU Student Digital Showcase, 6 November, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
Moffatt, Kate, and Kandice Sharren. “Recovering Eighteenth-Century Women in the Book Trades with The Women’s Print History Project, 1750–1836.” Women in Print Conference, 14 September, University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK.
2017
Battershill, Claire, Michelle Levy, Kim O’Donnell, and Kandice Sharren. “Collaboration and Project Management for Digital Projects.” Hacking the Scholarly Workflow Workshop, 13 April, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
Levy, Michelle. “Why we need a Women’s History of Books.” ‘She Wrote It, But’: Erasures, Recoveries, and the Futures of Book History.” Symposium at Texas A&M, 16 November, College Station, TX. Plenary speaker.
Levy, Michelle, and Kandice Sharren. “Aggregating and Remediating Women’s Book History in ‘The Women's Print History Project, 1750-1836.’” NASSR Annual Meeting: “Romantic Life,” 9–13 August, Ottawa, ON.
Levy, Michelle, and Kandice Sharren. “Beyond Authorship: Professional Networks and the Women’s Print History Project.” Rare Book School Conference: “Bibliography Among the Disciplines,” 12–15 October, Philadelphia, PA. Roundtable participants.
Levy Michelle, and Kandice Sharren. “Jane Austen’s Print Trouble.” Rare Books and Special Collections, 2 March, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Levy, Michelle, Kate Ozment, and Kandice Sharren. “Discovering/Recovering Women in the Book Trades.” Women in Book History Symposium, 6–10 March, Folger Library, Washington, DC.