Tag Glossary

If locationtion of element attribute is expressed, tagg it as An element used in writing and encoding Orlando’s early stages but never implemented. It was to enclose topics from a pre-determined list of major historical topics including some of the scope and complexity of witchcraft or the second world war. For each of these the briefest possible account (a single paragraph) would be written, outlining key facts and dates. A links screen would point users towards this central description, as well as to all the uses of the tag elsewhere. It would be a major task to implement this tag, which has fallen out of use, though the results could be interesting and valuable.

This element belongs to WRITING > PRODUCTION. It encloses a word or brief statement, records certain specifics about the kind of printing operation involved. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes. Often used in conjunction with PMODEOFPUBLICATION, it is mostly used for small, unusual, or experimental publishing ventures.

One of the sixteen structuring big-bucket content tags in BIOGRAPHY, defined as integral to mapping a woman's life. It has no attributes or sub-elements. It is placed in a document according to the broadly chronological sequence of life-events. It represents an early decision by the Orlando team not to separate different kinds of violence by different encoding, but to encompass together institutional, marital, and other violence (marketplace whippings for Quaker preachers, wartime bombing, and family abuse). We are particularly interested in the effects of violence against women on the history of women's writing and the historical, social and political issues surrounding violence against women. This element is not reserved for actual acts of violence, but can include a discussion of the effects, short- and long-term, of exposure to violence. In some cases available data may need to be divided between Violence and some other element, e.g. FAMILY or LOCATION or POLITICS or HEALTH.

TVOICENARRATION is available within WRITING > TEXTUALFEATURES. It encloses a statement or discussion, and has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes. It addresses the question of how a story is told: who speaks (first-person, multiple voices, omniscient or unreliable narrator, interpolations, use of fictional documents, etc), and sometimes the character or situation of the narrator(s).

Wealth is a Div1 content element, one of the 16 major BIOGRAPHY elements defined as integral to mapping a woman's life. It has no content sub-elements or attributes. It captures information about a writer's financial standing, more precise and detailed than what is conveyed within the Class and Occupation elements. We are particularly interested in whether or not her finances provided the material conditions necessary for writing. Information concerning inheritance, unearned income, tax matters, spouse’s income, pensions and personal financial disasters is captured here, but not any income directly derived from literary activity, which belongs in the WRITING doc.

Writing is the large, all-encompassing element in all writing documents.