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A [Socially Isolated] Room of One's Own: Women Writing Lockdown

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A [Socially Isolated] Room of One's Own: Women Writing Lockdown' will offer a multi-disciplinary, qualitative overview of women's autobiographical writing produced during the first 3 months of the UK lockdown (March - June 2020), imposed in response to the COVID pandemic. A multi-disciplinary project, it seeks to investigate women's articulation of their experience of the first phase of lockdown through four key varieties of auto/biographical writings:

1) Published work by professional women writers, including fiction, poetry and writing for children; op-ed newspaper columns and periodical literature;
2) newly deposited archival testimonies in collections such as Mass Observation and the British Library Sound Archive;
3) online narratives by bloggers and influencers;
4) creative writing produced during the lifetime of the project via a dedicated workshop series.

Project Acronym WWL
Status Project Complete
Funder(s) Arts & Humanities Research Council
Value £17,190.00
Project Dates Jan 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2023

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