TY - JOUR
TI - The Translator’s Wife’s traces. Alma Cardell Curtin and Jeremiah Curtin
AU - Rybicki, Jan
TI - The Translator’s Wife’s traces. Alma Cardell Curtin and Jeremiah Curtin
AB - 
	Jeremiah Curtin translated most works by Poland’s first literary Nobel Prize winner, Henryk Sienkiewicz. He was helped in this life-long task by his wife Alma Cardell Curtin. It was Alma who, after her husband’s death, produced the lengthy Memoirs she steadfastly ascribed to her husband for his, rather than hers, greater glory. This paper investigates the possible textual influences Alma might have had on other works by her husband, including his travelogues, ethnographic and mythological studies, and the translations themselves. Lacking traditional authorial evidence, this study relies on stylometric methods comparing most frequent word usage by means of cluster analysis of z-scores. There is much in this statistics-based authorial attribution to show how Alma Cardell Curtin affected at least two other original works of her husband and, possibly, at least two of his translations as well..
VL - Issues in English
IS - Issue 24/2010 – Feminism and translation
PY - 2012
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 89
EP - 109
DO - 10.4467/16891864ePC.12.005.0567
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/the-translators-wifes-traces-alma-cardell-curtin-and-jeremiah-curtin
KW - Sienkiewicz
KW - Cardell
KW - Curtin
KW - stylometry
KW - authorship attribution
KW - multivariate analysis
KW - cluster analysis
KW - Delta