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The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia announces the electronic publication of two scholarly works, Attributions of Authorship in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List, and Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, 1782-1826. These fully searchable resources created by Emily Lorraine de Montluzin provide unprecedented access to the contents of two of the most important and wide-ranging English periodicals of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Carefully designed and meticulously documented, these databases also serve as paradigms for future electronic research in bibliography. The Bibliographical Society of UVa is delighted to be the first in the family of international bibliographical societies to publish original research in an electronic environment.
The publications are available without charge to users world-wide through the Society's website.
Attributions of Authorship in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List, by Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, is a fully searchable database that provides attributions for over 25,000 anonymous contributions in the periodical.
From its beginning in 1731 until 1856, when its longtime editor John Nichols relinquished ownership, the Gentleman?s Magazine was one of the most influential periodicals in England. Because many of the contributions in this reservoir of contemporary news and culture were anonymous or signed in a way that obscured authorship, numerous attempts have been made to provide reliable attributions. The current publication brings together the existing identifications and adds a major new trove.
The Union List encompasses finds from three separate earlier projects and provides thousands of new attributions of authorship together with an expanded and revised introduction. The largest component (originally published in 1999) is a recasting of materials in James M. Kuist's The Nichols File of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, which on its print publication in 1982 made available some 14,000 attributions identified by members of the Nichols family in a staff copy of the periodical. Through additional research, whose results first appeared in six articles in Studies in Bibliography, vols. 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, and 50, de Montluzin added 4,000 more attributions to Kuist's list, publishing those authorial identifications in an electronic database in 1996. Over the years many other scholars have made attributions of authorship, and de Montluzin culled some 1,850 of those finds from about five dozen separate publications, publishing them in an electronic database in
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