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- Title
'Death-Hunter' Denied: Retractions and Corrections of John Nichols's Gentleman's Magazine Obituaries.
- Authors
Montluzin, E Lorraine de
- Abstract
The article discusses and offers a list of retractions and corrections of obituaries in the periodical "Gentleman's Magazine," by editor John Nichols. Topics include the notions of eccentricity and meticulousness in Nichols's documentaries, the practice of borrowing obituary text from other magazines in relation to plagiarism, and the erroneous attribution of some obituaries in the magazine to Nichols by the author of the article.
- Subjects
OBITUARY writing; NICHOLS, John; HISTORY of periodicals; ATTRIBUTION of authorship; PLAGIARISM; HISTORY
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2019, Vol 66, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjy190