[Project Proposal] The Poems of Maria Lowell

[ʗharlie ßowman]

While doing research on James Russel Lowell, I came across this short book of poetry by his wife, Maria White Lowell. Published by her husband after her death, it is her only published poetry, so no need for a spreadsheet.

• Repo
• Scans at IA
• Transcripts at UVA library

Art proposal: "Lachrymae" by Frederic Leighton 1895 from The MET
(Many of the poems have a sorrowful tone, dealing with the death of her children, as well as aboltionism.)

[Emma Sweeney]

That painting is already in use (Lachrymae).

Emma

[ʗharlie ßowman]

Rats. Backup option: "Beata Beatrix" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti at The Art Institute of Chicago

[ʗharlie ßowman]

Backup option 2: "Melancholia" by Domenico Fetti at the Art Institute of Chicago

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Weijia will manage with Vince reviewing.

Note that the title should be "Poetry" not "Poems". Make sure to update
the identifier, metadata, titlepage, and cover.

On 5/30/26 2:53 PM, ʗharlie ßowman wrote:
> While doing research on James Russel Lowell <https://en.wikipedia.org/
> wiki/James_Russell_Lowell>, I came across this short book of poetry by
> his wife, Maria White Lowell <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Maria_White_Lowell>. Published by her husband after her death, it is her

> only published poetry, so no need for a spreadsheet.
>

> * Repo <https://github.com/cbbowman/maria-white-lowell_poems>
> * Scans at IA <https://archive.org/details/poemsofmarialowe00lowerich>
> * Transcripts at UVA library <https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/
> uva_library/items/uva-lib:439721>
>
> Art proposal: "Lachrymae" by Frederic Leighton 1895 <https://
> www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436869> from The MET

> (Many of the poems have a sorrowful tone, dealing with the death of her
> children, as well as aboltionism.)
>

> cover.jpg
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[Weijia Cheng]

Both of the images are fine. Let me know which one you end up choosing.

[ʗharlie ßowman]

I decided on option 2: "Melancholia" by Domenico Fetti at the Art Institute of Chicago

[Weijia Cheng]

OK, I assigned it in the database.

[ʗharlie ßowman]

Thanks, Weijia.

First question for you:

Should the phrasing in the colophon be adjusted since this book was published after the author's death? The standard phrasing of "[WORK] was published in [YEAR] by [AUTHOR]" implies the author was the person also doing the publishing, rather than exclusively the authoring as in this case. Are there other works in the corpus that are similar cases?

Also, should I use the full published name of the source book "The Poems of Maria Lowell" in the colophon?

For maximum accuracy, at the cost of uniformity, I like this version:
<p><i epub:type="se:name.publication.book">The Poems of Maria Lowell</i><br/>
          was written by<br/>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_White_Lowell">Maria White Lowell</a><br/>
and was published in <time>1907</time> by<br/>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell">James Russell Lowell</a>.</p>

[Weijia Cheng]

1. I think that you should keep the default format for the publication year.

2. No, use Poetry (since that is the name for the project per Alex)

[ʗharlie ßowman]

Will do!

[Charles B Bowman]

Vince, I'm ready for you to review this.

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[Vince]

Whoops, lost track of this. So sorry—I’ll get to it this week.