Two new pamphlets by William Godwin: A case of computer-assisted authorship attribution

Studies in Bibliography

Volumn 54, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Clemit, Pamela ^a   Woolls, David ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CFL Software Development   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0842303774     PISSN: 00817600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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