Bibliographer: Elisabeth Miller

Memoirs of the Countess D'Anois

This stop motion video features ten of the most frequently used words in the novel Memoirs of the Countess D'Anois, and three lines from various parts of the novel, in order to give readers a sense of the language of the novel, as well as animate or bring the novel to life in a way that the traditional bibliography is unable to do.

Through this project, I wanted to capture the essence of the novel in a way that the traditional bibliography can not. I thought that a great way to do this would be to somehow give readers a taste of the language and feel of the literal text. To do this, I compiled a list of the ten most frequently used words in the novel, as well as picked three lines from the novel, one from the beginning, middle, and end. I then created a stop motion video, making it appear as though the words themselves were coming out of the book. Through this animation I "brought the book to life" in order to give readers a better sense of the novel that can not be obtained from the fact-based traditional bibliography.

Traditional Description

<p>[Murat, Henriette Julie de Castelnau, comtesse de]. Memoirs of the Countess D'Anois: written by herself before her retirement. In two volumes. London, 1778. </p>

<p>MEMOIRS| OF THE| COUNTESS D’ANOIS:| WRITTEN BY HERSELF BEFORE HER| RETIREMENT| IN TWO VOLUMES| VOL. I.| [ornament]| LONDON,| Printed for F. Noble, near Middle Row, Holborn;| and J. Noble, in St. Martin’s Court, Leicester| Fields.| M DCC LXX VIII. </p>

<p>Vol. I. 243 p; Vol. II. 245 p; 12 mo</p>

<p>Vol. I. A1r Title, A1v-A2r dedication, B1r- L12v text
Vol. II. A1r Title, B1r- L13r text, L13v-L14v advertisement</p>

<p>Sourced from the British Library and accessed from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Gale document number: CW3300954593. Seal for the British Museum at the bottom of B1 in Vol. I. Vol. I ends with “END OF VOL. I.” and a seal for the British Museum on page 240. Vol. II. ends with FINIS on page 241, and is followed by an advertisement for other books published by F. and J. Noble. </p>

Experimental Description

See the full experimental description here: https://youtu.be/eDrjLirlGFs