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

Joined February 2020
The Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon starts tomorrow! Have a Wikipedia account? Join us at: outreachdashboard.wmflabs.or…
That concludes the Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Editahon! Thank you all who followed along! #smithbeachy
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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
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Thanks to the miracle of technology, @DolanElizabethA joins us to talk about Charlotte Smith and working on The Song Cycles of Beachy Head. #smithbeachy
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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
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"What's really important about the event today is that we're challenging and addressing a gender gap on Wikipedia..." -- @monstrouscultur #smithbeachy
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And we're off! @monstrouscultur delivers opening remarks at the Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon. Follow hashtag #smithbeachy for updates.
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We're sitting down for our last planning session. Bittersweet after months of researching Charlotte Smith's final work, but we're excited!
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Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon retweeted
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 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0853wv…
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Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon retweeted
Join us at the Harriet Irving Library on Friday, March 13 between 1PM and 4PM AST for the Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon. Can't make it in person? Follow #SmithBeachy on Twitter. Event in partnership with @UNBLibraries and @artandfeminism.
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Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon retweeted
So we lost an hour on international women’s day? Wow even our days aren’t equal
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Charlotte Smith Beachy Head Edit-a-thon retweeted
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
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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
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"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..."
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"...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
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"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
"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
"Beachy Head presents melancholia in a much more abstract sense, musing on the state of the world, time and mankind's sorrows from atop the Sussex cliffs.” -- Olly Hunt, "Melancholia in Charlotte Smith’s Verse" #smithbeachy #poetry
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Worried about the length of your own work? By the time Charlotte Smith sent a copy of Beachy Head to her publisher, it was over 700 lines. #smithbeachy #poetry
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