Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon

Highlighting poet Charlotte Smith by editing the Wikipedia page for her final — and most ambitious — work. In partnership w/ @UNBLibraries & @artandfeminism.

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

The Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon starts tomorrow! Have a Wikipedia account? Join us at: https://t.co/9VlY6uJJ0R

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

That concludes the Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Editahon! Thank you all who followed along! #smithbeachy

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

Much thanks to Jeannie from @UNBLibraries for speaking to us about the importance of Wikipedia, accessibility, and representation. And thanks to Erik from @UNBLibraries for being on hand to help as editing gets underway. #smithbeachy

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

Thanks to the miracle of technology, @DolanElizabethA joins us to talk about Charlotte Smith and working on The Song Cycles of Beachy Head. #smithbeachy

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

An epic challenge has been thrown down: Can we make the entry for Beachy Head bigger and better than the entry for Paradise Lost? #smithbeachy #healthycompetition

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

"What's really important about the event today is that we're challenging and addressing a gender gap on Wikipedia..." -- @monstrouscultur #smithbeachy

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

And we're off! @monstrouscultur delivers opening remarks at the Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon. Follow hashtag #smithbeachy for updates.

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

We're sitting down for our last planning session. Bittersweet after months of researching Charlotte Smith's final work, but we're excited!

[Sophie Coulombeau @SMCoulombeau]

Been observing the digital picket this week - but forgive me for popping in now to say how proud I was of my radio prog on the Romantic poet-novelist Charlotte Smith, a writer who deserves much kudos & interest, which aired on Monday. You can catch up here https://t.co/PdNI9oCL4c

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

@SMCoulombeau Bravo!

[UNB Dept of English @unb_englishdept]

This Friday! #editingAF #artandfeminism

[cal? @cal_gif]

So we lost an hour on international women’s day? Wow even our days aren’t equal

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

We love Beachy Head, but even we wouldn't want to get this close (and the National Police Air Service asks that you please not). #smithbeachy

https://t.co/rcG7DAaeuI

[Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @WSGUK]

Happy International Women's Day! We do our best to celebrate women every day of the year. A question to our followers: which women from our period of study (1558-1837) deserve more attention? #InternationalWomensDay

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

@WSGUK @austeneconomics Charlotte Smith!

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

Did you know: Despite being one of the most influential poets of her age, Charlotte Smith's work remained largely unexplored in the twentieth century until the 1980s . #smithbeachy

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

"Even as the poem invokes varieties of formal human histories, it insistently arrives at deaths, human and otherwise, graves and bones marked and unmarked, linked but not always legibly traceable to those discursive histories." -- Anne D. Wallace, "Interfusing Living and..."

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

"...Fragmentation is a theme prevalent in Charlotte Smith’s work not only in the description of the natural environment but also in the structure of [Beachy Head] itself.” -- Elia Kazan, "Mimesis in Beachy Head: How Coastal Fragmentation..." #smithbeachy

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

"Like the formation of the poem’s subject-matter, a cliff overlooking the English Channel, Smith’s writing, takes place on the edge, in a field that is neither poetry nor science or natural history..." -- Philip Erchinger, "Science, footnotes, and the margins of..." #smithbeachy

[Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon @SmithBeachy]

"The fragmentary form of this poem is not entirely an accident; Smith was attracted to the idea of constructing a ruin, and of using fragments expressively." -- Kari Lokke, “The Figure of the Hermit in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head” #smithbeachy #poetry