It contains articles dating to 1920 and is published by Chadwick-Healy which is now part of ProQuest on behalf of the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) .
The first volume was published in 1921, in print, covering relevant literature beginning in 1920.
[1][2][3][4] This indexing service is akin to the British form of the MLA Bibliography, yet distinctions between the two databases don't allow much overlap.
Publishing formats included are monographs, periodical articles, critical editions, book reviews, collections of essays and dissertations, poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, and literary theory.
Subject area coverage encompasses English language syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics, dialectology, vocabulary, orthography, dictionaries and grammars; literature and the computer.