[Next Project] The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve

[Neil Pankey]

I recently read The Castle of Otranto and discovered The Old English Baron which was written as a direct response, and would like to do for my next production.

PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5182

Scans: https://archive.org/details/oldenglishbaron06reevgoog/page/n6

Repo: https://github.com/neilpa/clara-reeve_the-old-english-baron

The PG transcription modernized all of the dialogue by quoting and splitting into paragraphs. All of the editions on IA (including a borrow-able 1967 Oxford University Press edition) retain the original multiple speakers per paragraph, split by em-dashes (example). I assume it's okay to keep this modernization given they already went through the effort?

The Oxford edition referenced a dedication which is present in one of the older editions, should we include that?

Neil

[Alex Cabal]

Sure. We should keep the modernized dialogue, much easier to read. You
can include the dedication. Please send a link to your repo once you start!

On 9/11/25 10:59 PM, Neil Pankey wrote:
> I recently read The Castle of Otranto <https://standardebooks.org/
> ebooks/horace-walpole/the-castle-of-otranto> and discovered The Old
> English Baron <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> The_Old_English_Baron> which was written as a direct response, and would

> like to do for my next production.
>
> PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5182
> Scans: https://archive.org/details/oldenglishbaron06reevgoog/page/n6
> Repo: https://github.com/neilpa/clara-reeve_the-old-english-baron
>
> The PG transcription modernized all of the dialogue by quoting and
> splitting into paragraphs. All of the editions on IA (including a
> borrow-able 1967 Oxford University Press edition) retain the original

> multiple speakers per paragraph, split by em-dashes (example <https://
> archive.org/details/oldenglishbaron06reevgoog/page/n13/mode/1up>). I

> assume it's okay to keep this modernization given they already went
> through the effort?
>
> The Oxford edition referenced a dedication which is present in one of

> the older editions <https://archive.org/details/
> oldenglishbaron01reevgoog/page/n10/mode/2up>, should we include that?
>
> Neil
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[Neil Pankey]

Here's the repo with the initial commit
https://github.com/neilpa/clara-reeve_the-old-english-baron

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Weijia will manage this with Lukas reviewing.

On 9/12/25 4:36 PM, Neil Pankey wrote:
> Here's the repo with the initial commit
> https://github.com/neilpa/clara-reeve_the-old-english-baron
>
> On Friday, September 12, 2025 at 9:43:28 AM UTC-7 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> Sure. We should keep the modernized dialogue, much easier to read. You
> can include the dedication. Please send a link to your repo once you
> start!
>
> On 9/11/25 10:59 PM, Neil Pankey wrote:
> > I recently read The Castle of Otranto <https://

> standardebooks.org/ <https://standardebooks.org/>

> > ebooks/horace-walpole/the-castle-of-otranto> and discovered The Old

> > English Baron <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ <https://
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/>

> > The_Old_English_Baron> which was written as a direct response,
> and would
> > like to do for my next production.
> >

> > PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5182 <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5182>
> > Scans: https://archive.org/details/oldenglishbaron06reevgoog/
> page/n6 <https://archive.org/details/oldenglishbaron06reevgoog/page/n6>

> > Repo: https://github.com/neilpa/clara-reeve_the-old-english-baron
> <https://github.com/neilpa/clara-reeve_the-old-english-baron>
> >
> > The PG transcription modernized all of the dialogue by quoting and
> > splitting into paragraphs. All of the editions on IA (including a
> > borrow-able 1967 Oxford University Press edition) retain the
> original
> > multiple speakers per paragraph, split by em-dashes (example
> <https://
> > archive.org/details/oldenglishbaron06reevgoog/page/n13/mode/1up

> <http://archive.org/details/oldenglishbaron06reevgoog/page/n13/

> mode/1up>>). I
> > assume it's okay to keep this modernization given they already went
> > through the effort?
> >
> > The Oxford edition referenced a dedication which is present in
> one of

> > the older editions <https://archive.org/details/ <https://
> archive.org/details/>

> > oldenglishbaron01reevgoog/page/n10/mode/2up>, should we include
> that?
> >
> > Neil
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[Weijia Cheng]

Alright, noted.