This DATSETNAMEreadme.txt file was generated on 20201120 by Jennie Batchelor


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GENERAL INFORMATION
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1. Title of Dataset: The LadyÕs Magazine Index 


2. Author Information


  Principal Investigator Contact Information
        Name: Jennie Batchelor
           Institution: University of Kent
           Address: School of English
           Email: j.e.batchelor@kent.ac.uk


  Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
        Name: Koenraad Claes
           Institution: Anglia Ruskin University
           Address: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
           Email: koenraad.claes@anglia.ac.uk


  Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
        Name: Jenny DiPlacidi
           Institution: University of Kent
           Address: School of English
           Email: j.diplaci


3. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date) 
20140901 - 20201120


4. Geographic location of data collection (where was data collected?): UK


5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Leverhulme Trust


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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1. File List
   A. Filename:  LadyÕs Magazine Index     
      Short description: A fully annotated index to the just over 15000 text items in the LadyÕs Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex from its first series (1770 to 1818)
      


        


2. Relationship between files:    N/A    




3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: N/A




4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? No



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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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Data was compiled by Jennie Batchelor, Koenraad Claes and Jenny DiPlacidi. 






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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: The LadyÕs Magazine Index
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1. Number of variables:14


2. Number of cases/rows: 15023


3. Variable List
    A. Name: Title
       Description: The title of the text item




    B. Name: Vol.
       Description: The number of the volume in which the item was 
	published


    C. Name: Year
       Description: The year in which the item was published

    D. Name: Month
       Description: The month/s in which the item was published

    E. Name: Page
       Description: The starting page/s for items

    F. Name: Original Author
       Description: The signature published under an item. Where no signature appears, the Original Author reads unsigned. Where a signature is incomplete, a pseudonym or unsigned the authorÕs legal name (where known) is given in square bracket

    G. Name: Intermediate Author
       Description: Authors who were associated with an item but are not its Original Author. Intermediate Authors include: translators and readers who submitted pieces to the magazine they had excerpted from elsewhere. Where no signature appears, the Intermediate Author reads unsigned. Where a signature is incomplete, a pseudonym or unsigned the authorÕs legal name (where known) is given in square bracket


    H. Name: Genre
       Description: Generic classifications for items,

    I. Name: Subgenre
       Description: Additional generic classifications where an item displays characteristics of more than one genre

    J. Name: Keywords
       Description: Central topics, proper names, locations and important keywords for each item. NB: a keyword does not have to be present in the text. 

    K. Name: Tags
       Description: Extra-generic structural or stylistic characteristics pertaining to items, e.g. translation, first-person narrative or response

    L. Name: Age
       Description: Age of contributor when printed in the magazine

    M. Name: Place
       Description: Place of item composition when printed in the magazine

    N. Name: Notes
       Description: Source texts for reprinted items in the magazine previously published elsewhere or additional material about an itemÕs textual history where relevant