{"id":2963,"date":"2013-05-21T14:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2013-10-28T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:00:56","slug":"letters-of-bess-of-hardwick-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=2963","title":{"rendered":"Bess of Hardwick&#8217;s Letters Now Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bessofhardwick.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2969\" title=\"Visit site\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bess_Homepage.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bess_Homepage.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Bess_Homepage-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bessofhardwick.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bess of Hardwick&#8217;s Letters: The Complete Correspondence c.1550-1608<\/a> has recently gone online. Created by the AHRC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/schools\/critical\/research\/fundedresearchprojects\/bessofhardwick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Letters of Bess of Hardwick Project<\/a>, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/schools\/critical\/staff\/alisonwiggins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Alison Wiggins<\/a> (University of Glasgow), this wonderful new digital edition makes freely available full texts of all 234 letters to and from Bess \u2013 one of Elizabethan England\u2019s most famous figures \u2013 alongside colour images of 185 missives (with transcription facilities), contextualised by extensive commentaries on Bess and on the material and linguistic characteristics of early modern English correspondence that are alone worth the price of admission. Alison discusses the creation of this extraordinary resource in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?page_id=649\">this super talk<\/a> from our 2012 seminar series. Congratulations, Alison and team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bess of Hardwick&#8217;s Letters: The Complete Correspondence c.1550-1608 has recently gone online. Created by the AHRC Letters of Bess of Hardwick Project, led by Dr Alison Wiggins (University of Glasgow), this wonderful new digital edition makes freely available full texts of all 234 letters to and from Bess \u2013 one of Elizabethan England\u2019s most famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,21,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts-videos","category-projects-centres","category-publications","category-websites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}