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1.1 Researching biography: who is douglas sladen?  (Page 7/8)

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Browsing through the titles of the articles listed will give us an idea of their possible content and help us refine our search. The title RecentlyPublished Articles suggests that The American Historical Review (the title of the periodical is usually in italics) may have published a list of articles by title andauthor. Even if the entire article does not appear, any reference to it would be valuable information for digging it up. Select the Page of First Matchoption.

JSTOR Result 2: "Recently Published Articles"

Scanning the page we find the following listing.

Jaine, T. W. M. "Douglas Sladen (1856-1947), An Anatomy." Book Collector . 22 (Spring 1973): 35-43 (950).
Let's break down what each part of this entry means:
How to read a bibliographic entry
All of this information will be important in locating the periodical we need. From this listing we may be able to locate an article dedicated to DouglasSladen. We will explore this option a little further down. Here are a few more of the search results.

In browsing the appearance of Douglas Sladen's name in the search results, we find references to other works that he has authored, including books on Italy,Japan, Germany, and Sladen himself. Each of these options and those left unexplored here can lead to productive resources.

The times of london

Catalog for the Times of London
The Times of London has been the daily newspaper of record in England for hundreds of years. Douglas Sladen was born in England and published most of hisbooks in London. Of all the newspapers we could search for Douglas Sladen, the London Times seems the most promising. It would have been the newspaper he wouldhave been most interested in as a figure in the London literary scene and the newspaper most interested in him as an Englishman.

Notice that the catalog record indicates under "Online Coverage" that we can access the"full-image" Times Digital Archive, which means that even though every page has not been transcribed we can still search the archive and see page images. By selecting that option we will be taken to themain search page for this extensive digital archive.

Search page for Times Digital Archive
A basic search produces four articles for us to choose from.
Search results: Times Digital Archive
Selecting the first article we find a bit of commentary on Douglas Sladen's second biography, "My Long Life." Note that our search times are highlighted in the article.
Review of Sladen's autobiography in Times Digital Archive
Selecting the second article we find Douglas Sladen's obituary. We can find a number of biographical details in obituaries. For instance, Sladen's obituary tells us that he wroteover 60 books, was a devoted traveller, and belonged to several social organizations.
Sladen's obituary in Times Digital Archive

How to use what you find in the online journals

What we have found in the Journals so far can be put into two categories: information about Douglas Sladen and resources in which more information canbe found. We will briefly explore in this section how to use what we have found to further our research.
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Source:  OpenStax, Conducting historical research: the case of "oriental cairo". OpenStax CNX. Oct 23, 2006 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10291/1.4
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