Water of the Wondrous Isles
I’ve always enjoyed the writing of William Morris, a true “renaissance man” who dabbled well in an amazing array of artistic, academic, and social pursuits. Building on my Aladore projects, I was interested in creating some projects with Morris texts to further explore creating useable web editions with added data features using static web generation.
In 2020 I created morris-wondrous-isles-book project building an edition of The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897). The intent was to create a fully self-contained, minimal static web-based “artisanal” digital edition. With the text parsed into semi-structured markdown files, there is new opportunities to generate data and search.
Water of the Wondrous Isles is a fascinating book, a female protagonist, powerful women, strange magic, in a fairy tale like setting. Give it a read at morris-wondrous-isles-book!