Shakespeare and Company Project Dataset: Lending Library Members

Abstract

All data is related to the Shakespeare and Company bookshop and lending library opened and operated by Sylvia Beach in Paris, 1919–1962. Version 1.1 adds 859 addresses and reduces the total number of members from 5726 to 5601 by merging records that belonged to the same member and removing mistaken records. This update includes other corrections, including VIAF links for some members. See ScoData_members_v1.1_changelog.txt for more information.The Shakespeare and Company Project: Lending Library Members dataset includes information about approximately 5,600 members of Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company lending library.The Shakespeare and Company Project has received support from Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities; Humanities Council and the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project Fund; University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences; the Dean’s Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities; the Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English; and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities.1.