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Bay St. Louis (MS) Sea Coast Echo
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1999 ? 9B ?
Bay professor?s electronic bibliography published
FLORENCE, S.C. - For 11 years, Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, professor of history at Francis Marion University, has been conducting investigative work into the world of English literature and history.
Dr. de Montluzin, of Bay St. Louis, is a 1966 graduate of Bay High School and received her BA from Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans in 1970. Her PhD in British history was received from Duke University in 1974.
Her work, discovering the identity of anonymous authors whose writings appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine (GM) in 18th-century England and editing the work of others who have compiled names of some authors, has led to the publication of her third bibliography on the subject.
The latest publication, 727 pages of browsable, on-line materials, has been published electronically by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, and is accessible at the Society's Web site, http://etext.lib.virginia.ed u/bsuva.
The bibliography, Attributions of Author-ship in the "Gentleman's Magazine":	An	Electronic
Version of James M. Kuist's "The Nichols File of the 'Gentleman 's Magazine,'" edited by de Montluzin, is the latest in her research.
During the 18th century, de Montluzin says, it was considered by some to be shameful to write for the press. Anonymity and pseudonyms protected writers' identities.
Her top-notch sleuthing skills, and understanding of the times and the historical significance of the writings, have helped her to discover the identities of many authors, an undertaking she compares to breaking a code.
The de Montluzin edi-
tion of Kuist's earlier work is "key-word searchable" by author, title, subject, date, volume and page reference, and author's pseudonymous signature (where applicable).
Her online version of Kuist's Nichols File consists of three divisions, a chronological listing of attributions of authorship followed by two indices: an authorial index (a listing of the contributions of authors identified in Kuist, providing whenever possible contributor's birth and death dates, as well as occupations) and an index of the more than 1,000 pseudonyms, sets of initials, and symbols used as signatures by the magazine's contributors.
Upon publication in 1982 Kuist's Nichols File became an indispensable starting point for GM research. It provided a one-volume printed list of
many of the authors of previously anonymous articles, reviews, poems, and items appearing in the GM from its founding by Edward Cave in 1731, until 1856, when the descendants of John Nichols, the GM's longtime editor, gave up financial and editorial control of the magazine.
The GM is significant for researching and understanding 18th and early 19th-century British history, literature, science, theology, economics, art and architecture, classical studies, travel, antiquarian matters, and related fields.
Her work is offered free to the world, through the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia website. She receives research inquiries from around the world regarding her work and what she has been able to decipher.
De Montluzin's latest electronic bibliography joins her two earlier works of attributions of authorship in the GM, her 1996 Attributions of Authorship in the "Gentleman's Magazine," 1731-1868: A Supplement to Kuist, and her 1997 database, Attributions of Authorship in the "Gentleman's Magazine, " 1731-1868: A Synthesis of Finds Appearing Neither in Kuist's"Nichols File'1 nor in de Montlucin's "Supplement to Kuist. "
In addition to her work on the GM, de Montluzin, a specialist in 18th- and early- 19th century British press history, has pubf lished The Anti-Jacobins, 1798-1800:
The Early Contributors to the "Anti-Jacobin Review? (London: Macmillan P, 1988) and articles conj cerning other English periodicals of the Georgian era.