Department of trivia, Victorian Reformations bibliography edition
- Length in MS, double-spaced: 42 pages.
- Number of sources: approx. 456.
- Number of instances in which I was able to correct an attribution: 1.
- Longest multivolume work: John Lingard's History of England (10 volumes).
- Most relatives: The theologian F. D. Maurice's sister and son both put in an appearance.
- Longest nineteenth-century title: tie between John Milner's An Universal History of Christian Martyrdom, Being a Complete and Authentic Account of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive as Well as Protestant Martyrs, in All Parts of the World, from the Birth of the Blessed Saviour to the Latest Periods of Pagan and Catholic Persecution and John Stock's A Sermon Preached in the Parish Churches of St. Mary Straford Bow, and of All Saints, Poplar, Middlesex, on Sunday, October 4th, 1835, in Commemoration of the Third Centenary of the Reformation, and of the Publication of the First Entire Protestant English Version of the Bible, October 4th, 1835.
- Compromise position: Let's just go with E. C. Agnew, shall we?
- Most works by a single author, primary sources: Emily Sarah Holt, with 8. (It would be Holt.)
- Most works by a single author, secondary sources: Alexandra Walsham, with 5.
- Novelist most likely to have "Reformation" in the subtitle: Emma Leslie, in 4 out of 7 novels.
- Publisher most likely to not have dated their works: the Religious Tract Society. (John F. Shaw was also allergic to publication dates.)
- Ye Olde Englishe Title: Charlotte Maria Pepys' The Diary and Houres of the Ladye Adolie, A Faythfulle Childe, 1552.
- Most *headdesk*-inducing typo discovered during proofreading: Jenny Franchot, Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Protestantism. Er, no.
- How was that spelled again?: The many variations on Wycliffe (including Wiclif, Wyclif, Wickliffe...).