The next steps for this research lie in expanding the corpora of texts to be mined. There is the obvious limitation of copyright to overcome: if one were to obtain permission to digitize the entirety of Wide Sargasso Sea then the whole of Jane Eyre could be used as well as the outcomes would be more representative of the novels in their entirety. As the rest of Rhys’s works are out of copyright, or soon to be, the strength of text mining to analyze vast amounts of data could be further exploited and the conclusions found in this exhibit will be reinforced or argued against. Incorporating more texts could develop motifs like the use of “dress” to follow the evolution of the symbol in Rhys’s writing, or to examine connotations for “love” and “marriage” across the careers of the authors. Incorporating a historical analysis could contextualize the authors’ works in the time in which they were created and the society the authors lived in.