Eleanor Prescott Hammond (1866–1933) was an American scholar of English literature, particularly

Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for '' The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He w ...

studies. She studied at

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

under

Arthur Sampson Napier Arthur Sampson Napier (1853–1916) was a British philologist. He was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, from 1885 and also Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon since 1903. Napier was appointed a fellow o ...

, earning her B.A. in 1894. She obtained a Ph.D. at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

in 1898, then taught there in the English department before leaving to become a schoolteacher and independent scholar. She also taught at Wellesley College. Her 1908 book, ''Chaucer: A Bibliographical Manual'', as the first critical bibliography on Chaucer's works and scholarship, was foundational for Chaucerian scholarship in the twentieth century. Her identification of six manuscripts written by the same scribe, now known as the "Hammond Scribe", was extremely influential for the development of scribal identification in medieval English

palaeography Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...

.Mooney, Linne R. ‘Professional Scribes?: Identifying English Scribes Who Had a Hand in More Than One Manuscript’, in ''New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference'', ed. D. Pearsall (York, 2000), pp. 131– 41. Discoveries by A. I. Doyle,

Richard Firth Green Richard Firth Green is a Canadian scholar who specializes in Middle English literature. He is a Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Ohio State University and author of three monographs on the social life, law, and literature o ...

, Jeremy Griffiths, and Linne R. Mooney have since increased the total known manuscripts by this scribe to fifteen.

Selected works

References

External links

Scribal profile of the Hammond Scribe
1866 births 1933 deaths Alumni of the University of Oxford English literature academics Chaucer scholars University of Chicago alumni Wellesley College faculty University of Chicago faculty University of Chicago fellows American literary historians American medievalists {{US-English-academic-bio-stub