Analysis of J. M. Wheeler, A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations (London: Progressive Publishing Company, 1889)
Abstract
This dataset is based on the open-access plain text ebook of J. M. Wheeler, A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations (London: Progressive Publishing Company, 1889) produced and hosted by Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34513/34513-h/34513-h.htm All 1,639 entries in the dictionary were read by the author of the dataset and marked up manually. The entries are categorised by nation (the country/ies with which an individual was primarily associated), century (based on year of death, with a separate category for those alive upon publication in 1889), gender (male, female, or ambiguous), length by word count, and whether they appeared in the main text or supplement.
Authors
Stainthorp, CCollections
- Department of English [291]