18th- and 19th-century British press history (research centering upon the identification of anonymous and pseudonymous contributors to leading British periodicals, particularly the Gentleman’s Magazine, the Anti-Jacobin Review, and the European Magazine, as well as the British Critic, Blackwood’s Magazine, and the English Review)
The Poetry of the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-1800: An Electronic Database of Titles, Authors, and First Lines, An Ongoing Project, revised edition (2015). Available at http://www.gmpoetrydatabase.org; Web.
Attributions of Authorship in the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2003. Available at http://bsuva.org/bsuva/gm2; Web.This database is designed to provide users with a comprehensive, fully browsable and searchable list of the 12,554 poems (of which 4,910 are by identified authors) printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine from its beginning in 1731 through 1800. Presented chronologically, with full titles, first lines, authors (if known), signatures, references or justifications for attribution, and additional historical information where needed, the database is intended to offer researchers ready, rapid, thorough, and user-friendly electronic access to the vast resources of literary (and in many cases historical) source material encompassed in the poetry of the Gentleman’s Magazine, one of the greatest repositories of verse in the eighteenth century. An alphabetical synopsis by contributor incorporating all of the 1,288 known authors of poetry printed in the GM serves as an authorial cross reference to the contents of the database as well as providing dates of birth and death and authors’ occupations, if known.
The database enables researchers of eighteenth-century print culture and of the Gentleman’s Magazine in particular to examine trends in publication and identify clusters of subjects that found favor with poets, readers, and publishers alike. It permits students of specific poets an improved opportunity to track the printing or reprinting of their works. It showcases the printing of poems produced by dozens of eighteenth-century women writers, many of whom were ignored by mainstream scholarship until very recently. It provides eighteenth-century historians expanded access to the magazine’s tremendous fund of source material on a variety of topics ranging across political, military, colonial, and economic history as well as science and medicine, theology, literary taste, the arts, leisure, and attitudes toward such social issues as slavery and the role of women.
Though constructed to stand fully alone, The Poetry of the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-1800, complements the author’s Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List, Web (Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the Univ. of Virginia, 2003) http://bsuva.org/bsuva/gm2; Web.
This electronic book, published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, brings together in one key-word-searchable and fully browsable electronic text all of the 25,585 then-known attributions of authorship of letters, articles, reviews, poems, and other items printed in Georgian England’s greatest magazine, gleaned from all then-available published and unpublished sources for the GM. It consists in part of an integration and correction of the three earlier Gentleman’s Magazine electronic books (published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia in 1996, 1997, and 1999, respectively) listed below; but it goes far beyond those texts to expand the citations of thousands of items in order to make them more conducive to key-word searches, to create new indices of contributors and pseudonyms, and to incorporate over 6,000 new finds. Encompassing 25,585 items from some 2,362 contributors and presented in a logical and clear sequence, the database, approximately 1,759 pages of browsable text, is constructed to be searchable electronically by volume number, page number, date, title, author, pseudonym, and key-word. All attributions are cross-referenced, appearing first in a chronological listing and then in a synopsis by contributor, both of which sections are fully browsable, so that users may easily examine each attribution in its chronological context. Accompanying the text is a browsable index of pseudonyms and initials used in the contributors’ signatures.
Daily Life in Georgian England as Reported in the “Gentleman’s Magazine.” Studies in British and American Magazines, no. 14. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Attributions of Authorship in the “European Magazine,” 1782-1826. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2000. Available at http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag; Web.
The Anti-Jacobins, 1798-1800: The Early Contributors to the “Anti-Jacobin Review.” London: Macmillan Press, 1988.
Attributions of Authorship in the “Gentleman’s Magazine”: An Electronic Version of James M. Kuist’s “The Nichols File of the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine.’” Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, ed. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1999. Archived at http://bsuva.org/bsuva; Web.
Attributions of Authorship in the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” 1731-1868: A Synthesis of Finds Appearing Neither in Kuist’s “Nichols File” nor in de Montluzin’s “Supplement to Kuist.” Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1997. Archived at http://bsuva.org/bsuva; Web.
Attributions of Authorship in the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” 1731-1868: A Supplement to Kuist. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1996. Archived at http://bsuva.org/bsuva; Web.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827-1830: A Supplement to the Union List.” Published online in Notes and Queries, 3 April 2023; print version to follow.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1824-1826: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 69.4 (December 2022): 323-331.
“Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville and the ‘Natural History of Shells’ Series in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1755-1759: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 69.4 (December 2022): 307-311.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1821-1823: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 69.3 (September 2022): 245-254.
“Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s’ ‘T.N.,’ 1821-1828?” Notes and Queries 69.2 (June 2022): 148-155.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1818-1820: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 68.4 (December 2021): 429-439.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1815-17: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 68.3 (September 2021): 281-291.
“John Brickdale Blakeway’s Contributions to the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1787-1813: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 265.4 (December 2020): 510-512.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1812-14: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 265.4 (December 2020): 519-529.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1809-11: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 265.1 (March 2020): 79-89.
“The ‘Death-Hunter’ Denied: Retractions and Corrections of John Nichols’ Gentleman’s Magazine Obituaries,” Notes and Queries 264.1 (March 2019): 117-130.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1807-1808: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 263.3 (September 2018): 332-342.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1805-1806: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 263.3 (September 2018): 322-332.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1803-1804: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 262.4 (December 2017): 556-566.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1801-1802: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 261.4 (December 2016): 624-636.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1799-1800: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 261.1 (March 2016): 94-105.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1797-98: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 62.2 (June 2015): 305-315.
“‘Every body apprehended an earthquake’: The Gentleman’s Magazine’s Reporting of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake and Its Aftermath.” Notes and Queries 61.3 (Sept. 2014): 409-417.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1795-96: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 61.3 (Sept. 2014): 449-459.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1793-94: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries n.s. 60.4 (Dec. 2013): 583-593.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1790-92: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries n.s. 60.1 (2013): 100-10.
“Identifying ‘Sagittarius’: The Contributions of Powell Snell to the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1790-92.” ANQ 25.4 (2012): 216-21.
“Identifying ‘Ninfield’: The Contributions of John Sharpe to the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1795-98.” ANQ 26.1 (2013): 20-23.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1788-89: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries n.s. 59.2 (June 2012): 247-57.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1741-45: A Supplement to the Union List.” ANQ 24.3 (2011): 140-53.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1786-87: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries n.s. 57.4 (Dec. 2010): 553-63.
“James Harris’s ‘Much Ado’: Text and Historical Context of a Sarah Fielding Misattribution in the Gentleman’s Magazine.” Notes and Queries n.s. 57.1 (Mar. 2010): 99-105.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1737-40: A Supplement to the Union List.” ANQ 23.1 (Jan.-Mar. 2010): 34-45.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1783-85: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries n.s. 56.2 (June 2009): 259-70.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-36: A Supplement to the Union List.” ANQ 21.4 (Fall 2008): 11-24.
“Quicksilver Ladies, Odes to Turds, and Three-Seater Privies: The Scatological Underside of the Gentleman’s Magazine.” ANQ 21, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 24-34.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-36: A Supplement to the Union List.” (Forthcoming, ANQ 21, no. 4 [Fall 2008])
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1780-82: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 253, no. 3 (Sept. 2008): 337-45.
“ ‘Oh! he was all perfection’: The Earl of Orrery’s Tribute to His Horse, Posthumously Printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine.” ANQ 20, no. 4 (Fall 2007): 13-17.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1776-79: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 252, no. 4 (Dec. 2007): 472-82.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1771-75: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 252, no. 1 (Mar. 2007): 75-83.
“An ‘Ossianic’ Tribute to the Prince of Wales: Thomas Potts’s Verses in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1762.” ANQ 19, no. 4 (Fall 2006): 22-25.
“Identifying ‘W.O.’ of Marshfield, Gloucestershire: William Oland’s Contributions to the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1747-82.” ANQ 19, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 21-31.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1765-70: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 251 [n.s., 53], no. 2 (June 2006): 199-209.
“The Anti-Jacobin Review after John Gifford: Contributions by Identified Authors, 1807-21.” The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 7th ser., 6, no. 3 (Sept. 2005): 274-320.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1745-54: A Supplement to the Union List.” Notes and Queries 250 [n.s., 52], no. 3 (Sept. 2005): 360-69.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1755-64: A Supplement to the Union List.” ANQ 18, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 32-42.
“Dr. John Bevis (1693-1771), Contributor of Astronomical and Meteorological Articles in the Gentleman’s Magazine.” Notes and Queries 251 [n.s., 51], no. 4 (Dec. 2004): 409-14.
“The Anti-Jacobin Revisited: Newly Identified Contributions to the Anti-Jacobin Review during the Editorial Regime of John Gifford, 1798-1806.” The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 7th ser., 4, no. 3 (Sept. 2003): 278-302.
“George Smith of Wigton: Gentleman’s Magazine Contributor, Unheralded Scientific Polymath, and Shaper of the Aesthetic of the Romantic Sublime.” Eighteenth-Century Life 28, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 66-89.
“‘John de Falkirk’ Identified: New Light on Reverend John Graham and His Contributions to The Anti-Jacobin Review.” Notes and Queries 248 [n.s., 50], no. 3 (Sept. 2003): 300-06.
“Worlds apart from the Turkish Tales: Joseph Moser’s ‘Proposal for a Depository for Infants.’” ANQ 16, no. 4 (Fall 2003): 35-41.
“‘A Close Prisoner’: Richard Polwhele’s Encounter with Captain Bligh.” ANQ 16, no. 3 (Summer 2003): 22-26.
“Identifying ‘R.S.W.’ and ‘Ricardus’: Richard Samuel White and Ralph Bernal in the European Magazine and the Gentleman’s Magazine.” ANQ 15, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 29-35.
“Beyond Gibbon: John Whitaker’s Other Contributions to the English Review.” Notes and Queries 246 [ n.s., 48], no. 4 (Dec. 2001): 430-33.
“Topographical, Antiquarian, Astronomical, and Meteorological Contributions by George Smith of Wigton in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1735-59.” ANQ 14, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 5-12.
“Attributions of Authorship in the British Critic during the Editorial Regime of Robert Nares, 1793-1813.” Studies in Bibliography 51 (1998): 241-58.
“Killing the Cockneys: Blackwood’s’ Weapons of Choice against Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, and Keats.” Keats-Shelley Journal 47 (1998): 87-107.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1849-68, and Addenda, 1733-1838: A Supplement to Kuist.” Studies in Bibliography 50 (1997): 322-58.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827-48: A Supplement to Kuist.” Studies in Bibliography 49 (1996): 176-207.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1809-26: A Supplement to Kuist.” Studies in Bibliography 47 (1994): 164-95.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1793-1808: A Supplement to Kuist.” Studies in Bibliography 46 (1993): 320-49.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1778-92: A Supplement to Kuist.” Studies in Bibliography 45 (1992): 158-87.
“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-77: A Supplement to Kuist.” Studies in Bibliography 44 (1991): 271-302.
“William Blackwood: The Human Face Behind the Mask of ‘Ebony.’” Keats-Shelley Journal 36 (1987): 158-89.
“The ‘Anti-Jacobin’s’ Elusive Dr. Grant.” Notes and Queries, n.s., 26 (June 1979): 217-19.
“The ‘Dedication Scene’ in ‘The Prelude’ and the ‘Book of Common Prayer.’” Notes and Queries, n.s., 22 (Feb. 1975): 59-60.
“Southey’s ‘Satanic School’ Remarks: An Old Charge for a New Offender.” Keats-Shelley Journal 21-22 (1972-73): 29-33.
Established (2005) and continuing to promote the Emily Lorraine de Montluzin Endowed Fund for Library Enhancement under the auspices of the Francis Marion University Foundation.
Secretary-Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the Emily de Montluzin Foreign Language Scholarship Fund. [The Emily de Montluzin Foreign Language Scholarship Fund was established in 1983 in honor of Emily Hosmer de Montluzin to provide scholarships to students who had excelled in the study of foreign languages and who intended to continue their study of languages at the college level. The fund enjoys federal tax-exempt status and currently awards a $5,000 scholarship annually to a deserving student, chosen by the voting members of the Board of Directors in a rigorous competition.]