Table 1
The average text size (in words and types) was calculated by Voyant Tools (Sinclair & Rockwell, 2021). The statistical data refer to the content of version 2.0 of the corpus “d-Prose 1870–1920”.
| number of texts | 2511 | |
| number of texts written by female authors | 346 | |
| number of texts written by male authors | 2165 | |
| number of authors | 334 | |
| number of female authors | 72 | |
| number of male authors | 262 | |
| text size average | 31146 words; 4753 types | |
| standard deviation | 58117 words; 5323 types | |
| shortest text | 1006 words | |
| longest text | 990351 words | |
| number of texts per decade | 1870–1879 | 226 |
| 1880–1889 | 327 | |
| 1890–1899 | 542 | |
| 1900–1909 | 623 | |
| 1910–1920 | 793 | |