Measuring the Uneven Digitization of Historical Literature

Did the mass digitization of historical literature produce a digital archive that accurately reflects what was published in the eighteenth century? I compare four databases of English literature, manually identifying authorial gender, to show a surprising over-representation of women's writing in Eighteenth Century Collections Online and HathiTrust.

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Paper, women's writing, bibliographic analysis, Long Presentation, eighteenth century, Book and print history, English literature, media archaeology, digital archives, Literary studies, digitization, digital research infrastructures development and analysis, Feminist studies

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