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From: "Ken Aitken" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Stylistic nitpick
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:23:35 -0600
In-Reply-To: <64BCDFA1.38FFBAAE.0ABF2076@aol.com>


Dave,
I can hear Elizabeth in my mind saying "cite what you see"
(Mind you she also suggested I think to much like a librarian)

So I'd put the author's name down as it appears.
Kenneth G. Aitken
Prairie History Librarian
Regina Public Library
Regina, Saskatchewan Canada


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Subject: [APG] Stylistic nitpick


OK, folks...I'm not seeing it in any of my style guides, so here's my
question to The Collective Wisdom...

In citing a manuscript, penned by a woman before her marriage, should the
citation include only her birth surname, or should I include her later,
married name in a citation?

The material in question was written by my grandaunt while a teenager (her
diary). [Let's not get into the question, "Just what the heck are you doing
with your aunt's diary, young man? Hmmm?"] In 1916, she was a high schooler;
she married in 1922, and I have ever and always known of her by her married
name.

Suggestions?

Dave McDonald
in Wisconsin


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