The Tag Glossary: L

This element belongs within WRITING > RECEPTION. However, it is used in a CHRONSTRUCT if possible, and a CHRONSTRUCT marking publication is generally within a PRODUCTION tag. It refers to a work that, in our opinion, broke new ground, was in some way shocking or notorious or illuminating, or had major social or literary repercussions. It should contain a full sentence and the one title that specifies the landmark text. If used in CHRONSTRUCT, this element contributes to the MILESTONES section of the profile. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes.

LANGUAGE is a content sub-element available within BIOGRAPHY > CULTURALFORMATION. It captures the names of languages the person knew at an early age. This tag is for specific names such as German, Gaelic, etc. We are interested in the various languages women writers used or knew, and how different mother tongues affect writing. We are interested in capturing information about British women writers whose first language was not English (including how Gaelic, Welsh, and Irish relate to women writing in English). This tag has optional attributes of COMPETENCE (values Mother and Other) and REG. REG is used when the language name has not been expressed in a standard fashion in the prose.

This tag belongs conceptually within WRITING > PRODUCTION. It records the final significant writing activity, published or otherwise, and should be used with all authors where evidence exists. It should contain a full sentence, and the only title tagged within it should be the title of the last work. If this tag is used in a CHRONSTRUCT it will display in the MILESTONES section of the profile. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes.

LEISUREANDSOCIETY is one of the 16 major DIV1 content elements within BIOGRAPHY sections of entries defined as integral to mapping a woman's life. It captures information concerning the cultural and social activities of a person, including hobbies, sporting life and non-literary cultural or social life. Individual friendships are captured under FRIENDSASSOCIATES and volunteer philanthropic activities are captured under OCCUPATION. For the purposes of this Project, we are not defining leisure as what she does with her free time because this assumes a gendered and classed notion of labour. Society in this context refers to the larger community and her social life within it, not primarily to an elite, fashionable social circle - but things like being presented at court or having her portrait painted do figure here. This tag has no content sub-elements or attributes.

This element belongs conceptually within WRITING > PRODUCTION. Though, it can equally be used within TEXTUALFEATURES or RECEPTION. It is meant to identify named literary or artistic schools that influenced an author’s writing or in which she was a participant or at least with which she had significant contact. 

Content sub-tag available within INTIMATERELATIONSHIPS, FRIENDSASSOCIATES, and MEMBER (within FAMILY), all in the BIOGRAPHY section of entries. It generally encloses at least a phrase or statement and a tagged name. Using LIVESWITH denotes the material living arrangements of the subject of the biography. It does not assume that the person with whom she is living is her sexual partner nor does it assume that sexual partners are excluded. This sub-element helps to capture the material conditions of a woman's writing (e.g. did she have support? Did she have a room of her own?) and women's non-traditional living arrangements.

Big-bucket tag. Location is one of the 16 major contents elements used in the BIOGRAPHY section of entries, which are defined as integral to mapping a woman's life. May be used several times in the course of an entry to capture places associated with different life-stages of the subject, and different relations to place (living, travelling, etc.). One of the strengths of our electronic literary history is its ability to make connections between people and places hitherto unknown. Researchers will be able to use our resource to discover who was living in a particular place at the same time or to make connections between historical events and women writers who were living or travelling in that place at the time of an event. For these reasons, the Orlando Project emphasizes location and place as one of the major focusses of our research. In addition, we emphasize structuring information concerning location because this makes it possible to generate maps for each writer, tracking her geographical movements over the course of her life. With no content sub-elements,the tag has a required attribute, RELATIONTO, which specifies the kind of location discussed within the element.