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Orlando’s homepage offers quick and easy access to the textbase.
The header menu bar is at the top of this page and all others. About leads to pages introducing the Orlando Project’s digital approach to literary history, teaching resources, and team; responses to the textbase; and information about terms of use and privacy. Browse takes you to the catalogue of searchable categories of Orlando material. Explore takes you to randomized material from across the textbase. Exhibit leads to Orlando’s collection of portrait and manuscript images shared by community members. Tag search enables you to collect and navigate material contained in our unique feminist literary-historical markup.
Next, the Search Orlando textbase bar enables you to get started by typing one or more keywords and exploring the results, which can be refined according to your interests. Boolean operators cannot be used here but a phrase such as “social media” can.
The Featured authors section foregrounds selected author profiles.
In the Browse catalogue section, click on any one of the images to explore our material about the category it represents; to see them all at once, click View all categories.
On or about today in Orlando highlights events: short accounts of occurrences in the lives and careers of Women writers, or the Writing climate, Political climate, and Social climate in which they wrote.
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