Collaborative Attribution 

In keeping with the 2024 IWD theme, #InspireInclusion, there is the opportunity to feed directly into this project. It is hoped that scholars working on related periodical press projects can add biographical data to contributors yet unidentified beyond their name. For example, who was Mrs Asher writing from January 1894 until June the same year? As Gary Simons (2021) writes, “until some descriptive matter can be attached to a name” we cannot fully ‘pierce’ the “curtain of anonymity”.  The Contributor Ledgers affirm that X was written by X contributor and so those details are recorded both here and in the Curran Index, but beyond that I want to identify who these women were, the social and professional circles in which they mixed. This perspective can be invaluable in understanding the pieces written and the allusions made. To this end, we have included a Comments box where scholars can contact the project team with suggestions for attribution and to add biographical data to those already attributed but whose personal details remain unknown.  This additional content will be reviewed periodically and the site updated accordingly if there is sufficient supporting evidence. Beyond such amendments, I see the potential for the site to be developed further to include the women artists such as Miss Georgina Bowers and Miss Maud Sambourne (artist of the reflective woman writer used on our cover page and publicity material).  Scholars have already begun work in this area and it would be good to develop a collaborative venture that brings together these complimentary themes in one central repository.