Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97) and Elizabeth Simcoe (1762–1850) composed narratives of their travels: accounts influenced by picturesque theory, especially as articulated by William Gilpin. Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark appeared in 1796; Simcoe, a gifted artist, kept a written and visual diary of her 1791–96 sojourn in Lower and Upper Canada, as spouse of the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806). Wollstonecraft and Simcoe took small children with them—Wollstonecraft, her daughter Frances (born May 14 1794); Simcoe, her daughter Sophia (born October 25 1789) and her son Francis (born June 6 1791). Gilpin’s aesthetic program favours the irregular, the varied, the marginal; Wollstonecraft and Simcoe, divergent in avowed political convictions, adapt Gilpin’s practice and improvise modes of a specifically maternal picturesque. Domestically, the presence of children is expected; to situate them in the wilds and on frontiers changes their role—and the role of their mothers. Wollstonecraft’s account of a visit to Sarp Falls in Norway and Simcoe’s visions of Niagara (as well as of the Don River) reveal, respectively, Wollstonecraft’s apocalyptic, and Simcoe’s gradualist, sensibility. Wollstonecraft projects the presence of her daughter into the Scandinavian landscape, drawing on Shakespeare’s fairyland to introduce preternatural dimensions into an empirical-minded narrative; Simcoe figures her son Francis as a mediator between the empire in which she believes, and Indigenous peoples whom she acknowledges as central to the defence, the consolidation, and the future of the province over which her husband presides.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".