Charlotte Mason Digital Collection:
The Charlotte Mason Digital Collection is a not-for-profit database created in 2009-2011 to assist scholars, researchers, educators and students to discover, use, and build upon the Charlotte Mason Collection of archives, journals and books housed in the Armitt Library & Museum (UK).
The Charlotte Mason Archive consists of 82 boxes of archives (letters, newspaper articles, hand-written journals, manuscripts of her books, documents related to the operation of the teacher’s college …) a collection of books owned by Charlotte Mason, and copies of most of her published works. There is also a complete collection of the journal which Mason started -- Parents’ Review. The Charlotte Mason Digital Collection consists of selections of the archives created during Mason’s lifetime (before 1924). Eventually there will also be transcriptions of some of the original materials for easier reading. Plans are also underway to digitize Mason’s journal, The Parents’ Review.
While the document originals are housed in the Armitt Library & Museum, Redeemer University College owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital images in jpg/pdf format. The original digital images and database metadata are owned and maintained by Redeemer University College.
This project was made possible through collaboration among the Armitt Library & Museum (Ambleside, UK), Redeemer University College (Ancaster, Canada) and the University of Cumbria (UK) and with the financial assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.