For the past several days, my life has been occupied by an index. (And teaching. And writing. And trying not to think about the book review that's about to be overdue. And planning to attend meetings next week. And...) Behold some bizarre index trivia:
- Letters with no entries: Q, X, and Z. (There's a Z in the bibliography, but it doesn't qualify for the index under Notre Dame's rubric.)
- Most frequent letter: The "M"s have it.
- Relative names: The three Maurices (Frederic Denison, sister Mary, son Charles Edmund).
- Name's the same: the two John Milners, one of whom is really F. W. Blagdon.
- Number of names in the index: c. 330.
- Author with the longest entry: Walter Scott.
- Author with the most works indexed: Emma Leslie.
- Historical figure with the longest entry: Mary Tudor.
- Historical characters appearing in more than one literary work: Rose Allin/Allen (Rose Allen, The King's Daughter's, The Protestant), Elizabeth I (The Statue Room, The Recess, The Spaewife, Tyborne), Julian Hernandez (The Spanish Brothers, The Last Look), Martin Luther (Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family, The Adventures of Hans Müller), Mary I (Lady Jane Grey, The Secret Room, The Statue Room, Mary Tudor, Queen Mary, Cecily), Mary, Queen of Scots (The Recess, The Abbot), Sir John Oldcastle (Mark's Wedding, The Story of John Heywood), Girolamo Savonarola (Agnes of Sorrento, Romola, The Martyr of Florence), Johann von Staupitz (Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family, The Adventures of Hans Müller), John de Wycliffe ("A Story of the Lollards," Hubert Ellerdale, The Lord Mayor).
- Historical figures mentioned in more than one literary work: Elizabeth I (The Abbot, The Protestant, Barnaby Rudge), Henry VIII (Cecily, Alice Sherwin, The Forest of Arden, The Last Abbot of Glastonbury), Martin Luther (Alice Sherwin, Geraldine, Agnes of Sorrento), Mary I (From Prison to Paradise, The Heir of Treherne, The Protestant, Barnaby Rudge, "The Youthful Martyr"), Philip I (The Secret Room, Cecily).
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