Assignment #2 - The Orlando Project

     What I love about The Orlando Project is that it is the most comprehensive database on female writers I've ever seen. Typically when looking up an author in a search engine or online encyclopedia, even modern authors don't have much beyond a brief biography and a list of published works. Information on female writers from British history is particularly hard to dig up given that many female authors wrote under male pseudonyms, and that female writers in general were not paid as much attention as their male counterparts.

     I decided to look up Anne Bronte because I read her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall last year after seeing the comic below.

From Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton.

     Before seeing that comic, I had no idea there were three Bronte authors, having only heard of Emily and Charlotte. All I had to do was type Anne's name into the search engine at The Orlando Project and her entry was the first that came up. I particularly liked the explanation of why Anne is less well known than her sisters, and how her style was less gothic and more realistic than theirs. I also enjoyed how the information was separated into easily navigable topics and categories, and the timeline with embedded links.