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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 652.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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       [1] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (91)
             Subject: New E-Publications

       [2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (24)
             Subject: Making of America Collection Adds 7,000 Volumes

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             Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:31:26 +0000
             From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
             Subject: New E-Publications

    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, 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, http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/.

    We invite you to consult these works at the Society's website and to
    review them in your publication.

    * * * * *
    Attributions of Authorship in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1731-1868, by
    Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, is a fully searchable database that provides
    attributions for nearly 20,000 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 new publication comprises three separate projects. The largest
    component 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 14,000 attributions written by members of the Nichols family in
    a staff copy of the periodical. Over the years other scholars have made
    an additional 1850 or so attributions, which de Montluzin has identified
    and culled from about five dozen separate publications and added to the
    database. Through additional research, whose results first appeared in
    six articles in Studies in Bibliography from 1991 through 1997, de
    Montluzin has added 4000 more attributions to the total. As a result,
    nearly 20,000 attributions across 137 years of the magazine's life are now
    available in a single, searchable database.

    Attributions of Authorship in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE is searchable by
    keyword, volume number, page number, date range, title, author, and
    pseudonym. The attributions in each section are cross-listed in a
    Chronological Listing and a Synopsis by Contributor, both of which are
    browseable. In introductory essays the author describes her methodology
    for ascribing authorship and provides further information about features
    of the database.

    URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/gm/
    * * * * *
    Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, 1782-1826, is a fully
    searchable database listing all known attributions of authorship for
    anonymous, pseudonymous, or incompletely attributed articles, letters,
    reviews, and poems appearing in the European Magazine from its first
    monthly number in 1782 to its cessation in 1826. Like its contemporary
    the Gentleman's Magazine, the European Magazine printed articles and
    letters concerning literature, antiquarian matters, theology, science,
    biography, and current news, and included monthly department for book
    reviews, poetry, parliamentary reporting, and theater. Many of these
    articles were printed anonymously or bore only initials to designate
    authorship. Professor de Montluzin has used both contemporary and
    internal evidence to determine the authorship of a substantial proportion
    of the items appearing in the European Magazine's 50,000 pages.

    Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE assembles the names of
    160 men and women who contributed material to the European Magazine during
    its forty-four year history Among these newly identified contributors are
    the literary critics George Steevens and Isaac Reed, musician Charles
    Burney, botanist Richard Pulteney, astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, and
    Orientalist Sir William Jones. Among the women on the list are the Della
    Cruscan poet Hannah Cowley, Eliza Gilding Turner, Mary ("Perdita")
    Robinson, and the prolific writer of verse and tales Anna Jane Vardill.
    Several American contributors appear: Washington Irving; the physician
    Joseph Brown Ladd; the Rev. Timothy Dwight; Congregationalist divine and
    president of Yale College; the Rev. John Vardill, titular professor of
    natural law at King's College (later Columbia University) and Loyalist
    spy; and William Franklin, natural son of Benjamin Franklin and last royal
    governor of New Jersey. Among the contributors were a number whose
    literary reputations long remained high, most notably Irving, Thomas
    Percy, Thomas Campbell, Isaac D'Israeli, Sir Walter Scott, and William
    Hazlitt.

    Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE is searchable by
    keyword, volume number, page number, date range, title, author, and
    pseudonym. The 2074 attributions are cross-listed in a Chronological
    Listing and a Synopsis by Contributor, both of which are fully browseable.
    In an introductory essay the author describes her methodology for
    ascribing authorship and provides further information about features of
    the database.

    URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/euromag/

    Emily Lorraine de Montluzin is Professor of History at Francis Marion
    University in Florence, South Carolina

    Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
    Alderman Library
    Charlottesville, VA 22904-4152

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             Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:31:56 +0000
             From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
             Subject: Making of America Collection Adds 7,000 Volumes

    >> From: "Pat Hodges" <phodges@umich.edu>

    Making of America Collection Adds 7,000 Volumes

    The University of Michigan University Library is pleased to announce the
    addition of over 7,000 volumes to its Making of America collection. This
    expansion brings the total volumes available online to 8,500 or
    approximately 2.89 million pages of text and 1.15 billion words. The
    addition of these materials to Making of America was made possible in part
    through the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and an
    equipment grant from Sun Microsystems.

    Making of America (MoA) a publicly-accessible online resource focusing on
    19th century American publications now contains over 3% of all American
    imprint monographs published in the 19th century (based on preliminary
    statistics provided by the Library of Congress). The majority of these
    materials were published between 1850 and 1876 and focus on topics ranging
    from the life and death of Abraham Lincoln to the latest 19th century
    household sciences to reflections on travel to the Western United States.
    The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education,
    psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and
    technology. MoA offers users the opportunity to view faithful replicas of
    the original source materials, perform full text searches over the entire
    collection, search within individual texts, and save searches and develop
    bibliographies using the MoA book bag.

    The Making of America is available freely over the Internet and may be found
    at: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/. For additional information about MoA,
    contact moa-feedback@umich.edu.



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