Data Package: Archival Gossip

This digital project is made up of a Wordpress-site (archivalgossip.com) and an Omeka-collection (archivalgossip.com/collection). Their shared theme is the investigation of the role of gossip in nineteenth-century life-writing and print culture.

This data collection includes PDFs of all relevant posts and .csv files for all items in the two collections: 1) Cushmania (relating to the career of actress Charlotte Cushman), and 2) Gossip Columns and Columnists (concerning the rise of gossip in nineteenth-century journalism). Both collections consist largely of digitized versions of archival material, such as letters and newspaper articles, their descriptive metadata, and transcripts of their contents.