Editors’ Summary: Joshua Kotin and Rebecca Sutton Koeser present Version 2.0 of the Shakespeare and Company Project data sets, a major update to the structured datasets documenting Sylvia Beach’s legendary Paris bookshop and lending library (1919–1962). The update significantly expands demographic data on lending library members—from roughly 600 to nearly 1,800 identified individuals—and introduces two new datasets tracking book creators and member addresses, enabling richer analysis of gender, nationality, geography, and reading practices in the interwar modernist milieu. The release is particularly timely as the project transitions from data curation to active research, with new findings already emerging on the circulation of Joyce’s Ulysses and the gendered dimensions of the lending library’s canon.
Editors’ Choice: Shakespeare and Company Project Data Sets, Version 2.0
