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We are delighted and honoured to announce that the GLARE project will cooperate with the award-winning children’s writer Robin Stevens. Robin has generously granted us access to the world of Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, her famous detectives. We are very much looking forward to working with Robin. In this blog post, Robin highlights the … Continue reading “Robin Stevens for GLARE: Because Stories Matter”
have just been published. Welcome to the market of the books for boys’ and books for girls’. Ben Brooks, a young author, who riding the wave of media and public interest in gender issues in our postWeinstein reality, decided that there have been enough recent titles for girls – Good night stories for rebel girls, … Continue reading “‘Stories for boys who dare to be different’”
Working in close cooperation with the CLiC team (our thanks go especially to Viola Wiegand, Anthony Hennessey and Jamie Lentin for their help with the corpus compilation, annotation and other necessary treatment), the new GLARE 19th Century Children’s Literature corpus (ChiLit) has been made available in November 2017 and it is now fully accessible through … Continue reading “ChiLit: the GLARE 19th Century Children’s Literature corpus in CLiC”
It’s all over the broadcast and social media. Women are angry. Really angry. And they have been angry for some time. But this time it seems different. What the Harvey Weinstein case and the #metoo campaign have triggered seems to be an avalanche of women’s voices shouting “we’re not happy with things as they are”. … Continue reading “Why GLARE?”
