Eleanor Prescott Hammond (1866–1933) was an American scholar of English literature, particularly Chaucer studies. She studied at Oxford under Arthur Sampson Napier, earning her B.A. in 1894. She obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1898, then taught there in the English department before leaving to become a schoolteacher and independent scholar. She also taught at Wellesley College.[1]

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.[2][3] Her identification of six manuscripts written by the same scribe,[4] now known as the "Hammond Scribe", was extremely influential for the development of scribal identification in medieval English palaeography.[5] Discoveries by A. I. Doyle, Richard Firth Green, Jeremy Griffiths, and Linne R. Mooney have since increased the total known manuscripts by this scribe to fifteen.[5]

Selected works

Hammond, Eleanor Prescott (1908). Chaucer: A Bibliographical Manual. Peter Smith.

References

  1. ↑ "Guide to the Eleanor Prescott Hammond Papers 1913-1933". www.lib.uchicago.edu.
  2. ↑ Lowes, John L. (1909). "Review of Chaucer, a Bibliographical Manual". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 8 (4): 619–627. ISSN 0363-6941. JSTOR 27700005.
  3. ↑ Macaulay, G. C. (1909). "Review of Chaucer. A Bibliographical Manual". The Modern Language Review. 4 (4): 526–529. doi:10.2307/3712924. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 3712924.
  4. ↑ Hammond, Eleanor Prescott (1929). "A Scribe of Chaucer". Modern Philology. 27 (1): 27–33. doi:10.1086/387801. ISSN 0026-8232. JSTOR 433725. S2CID 161776956.
  5. 1 2 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.

Scribal profile of the Hammond Scribe


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