Distant Reader - subject-women-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-25 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 51 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,036,873 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 39,938 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 93. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

one, will, may, much, women, great, man, many, men, make, first, good, yet, made, must, woman, like, time, without, love, shall, well, two, god, take, wife, king, now, us, things, called, shee, might, therefore, life, others, death, let, see, self, hee, though, husband, nothing, world, place, nature, also, whose, haue

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The ladies dictionary, being a general entertainment of the fair-sex a work never attempted before in English., Gynaikeion: or, Nine bookes of various history. Concerninge women inscribed by ye names of ye nine Muses. Written by Thom: Heywoode., and The generall history of vvomen containing the lives of the most holy and prophane, the most famous and infamous in all ages, exactly described not only from poeticall fictions, but from the most ancient, modern, and admired historians, to our times / by T.H., Gent..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

english books, early english, many times, let us, books online, every one, creation partnership, text creation, page images, two drams, young man, sufficient quantity, will make, two ounces, must needs, one day, haue beene, may see, every thing, will never, nothing else, young men, characters represented, image sets, tcp schema, represented either, jesus christ, shall find, brought forth, one another, one ounce, great deal, many things, one thing, long time, three ounces, one may, greatest part, whose name, tells us, female sex, many others, will find, one dram, may say, early works, take away, book de, good fortune, may make

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Dutch-miller, and new invented wind-miller, or, An exact description of a rare artist newly come into England who undertake[illegible] to grind all sorts of women; whether old, decriped, wrinckled, blear-eyed, long nosed, blind, lame, scold [illegible]alous, angry, poor, or all others whatsoever: he''l ingage they shall come out of his mill, young, active, ple[ea]nt, handsome, wise, modest, loving, kind and rich, without any defect, or deformity, and just suitable to th[ei]r husbands humours, and dispositions, as he hath often experienced in other countries where he hath m[a]de practice of his art. The rich for money, and the poor for nothing. Tune of, Cook La[illegible]rel, &c. Then bring your wives unto my mill, and young for old you shall have still. Hæc & hic; or, The feminine gender more worthy than the masculine. Being a vindication of that ingenious and innocent sex from the biting sarcasms, bitter satyrs, and opprobrious calumnies, wherewith they are daily, tho undeservedly, aspers''d by the virulent tongues and pens of malevolent men. ..., and A true translation of a paper written in French, delivered by Margaret Martell to the under-sheriff at the time and place of her execution, at Suffolk-street end, July 16, 1697, for the barbarous murther of Elizabeth Pullen, wife of Paul Pullen, Esq..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

tcp, woman, god, man, wife, lord, world, men, love, ladies, sex, nature, vertue, lady, king, good, life, husband, women, spirit, shee, prince, haue, great, church, thing, reason, english, body, thou, mother, like, law, father, early, daughter, wit, venus, thy, soul, romans, queen, honour, fortune, death, court, christian, christ, children, blood

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be women, and The glory of women: or, A treatise declaring the excellency and preheminence of women above men, which is proved both by scripture, law, reason, and authority, divine, and humane. Written first in Latine by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Knight, and doctor both of law and physicke. And presented to Margaret Augusta, Queen of the Austrians and Burgundians. And now translated into English, for the vertuous and beautifull female sex of the Commonwealth of England By Edvv. Fleetvvood, Gent. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

women, man, time, men, woman, things, others, death, nothing, self, wife, life, place, t, reason, thing, part, selfe, body, way, shee, name, day, daughter, love, husband, one, 〈, nature, mind, sex, eyes, hand, words, people, heart, hee, world, children, manner, times, blood, hath, none, rest, honour, face, end, parts, child

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, was, are, have, had, were, being, make, made, do, take, called, been, did, let, see, said, say, has, give, come, put, know, having, done, find, brought, came, taken, makes, 〈, found, am, set, think, according, sent, left, given, hath, ''s, speak, does, haue, thought, cast, gave, caused, bring

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

〉, ◊, 〈, god, ●, king, thou, hath, love, men, lib, c., lord, lady, world, vertue, man, christ, women, wife, haue, woman, tcp, spirit, shee, hee, husband, nature, fortune, city, beauty, de, ladies, owne, doe, queen, father, heaven, english, law, mother, prince, virgin, church, rome, bee, t, womb, honour, head

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

her, it, his, their, they, he, she, i, them, him, you, we, your, our, my, me, us, themselves, thy, its, himself, thee, ''em, one, mine, herself, theirs, yours, em, ours, vp, hers, ye, ''s, l, shou''d, vnto, us''d, ha, itself, yourself, yf, whosoever, ●, s, pelf, foorth, vvith, thou, ourselves

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, such, great, many, good, more, much, own, first, same, little, true, least, young, best, most, better, last, whole, old, like, noble, second, greater, common, greatest, full, excellent, small, able, wise, ill, new, long, fair, saith, few, necessary, former, dead, present, famous, high, sweet, free, strong, next, strange, certain, worthy

not, so, then, more, as, most, well, only, now, too, very, up, therefore, much, thus, out, also, never, first, yet, even, there, still, rather, away, here, no, ever, together, off, onely, often, likewise, sometimes, far, indeed, in, long, all, down, before, again, once, forth, else, thereof, almost, especially, always, better

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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