Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on the texts
- Introduction
- Part I The early phase
- Part II The late nineteenth century
- Part III The Skeat aftermath
- Part IV Chambers and Grattan, Knott and Fowler
- 12 Chambers 1909–1910
- 13 Chambers versus Knott
- 14 Chambers' graduate students
- 15 Chambers 1931
- 16 Chambers 1935–1942
- 17 The Chambers and Grattan collations
- 18 Grattan and Kane
- 19 Knott and Fowler, Donaldson, Mitchell, and Russell
- Part V The Athlone Press edition
- Part VI Epilogue: the Athlone aftermath: Schmidt, Pearsall, Rigg-Brewer, et al.
- Works cited
- General index
- Index of manuscripts
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
18 - Grattan and Kane
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on the texts
- Introduction
- Part I The early phase
- Part II The late nineteenth century
- Part III The Skeat aftermath
- Part IV Chambers and Grattan, Knott and Fowler
- 12 Chambers 1909–1910
- 13 Chambers versus Knott
- 14 Chambers' graduate students
- 15 Chambers 1931
- 16 Chambers 1935–1942
- 17 The Chambers and Grattan collations
- 18 Grattan and Kane
- 19 Knott and Fowler, Donaldson, Mitchell, and Russell
- Part V The Athlone Press edition
- Part VI Epilogue: the Athlone aftermath: Schmidt, Pearsall, Rigg-Brewer, et al.
- Works cited
- General index
- Index of manuscripts
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Summary
Information on the fate of the edition is now (post-1942) much harder to come by. Elsie Hitchcock died at the end of the year, and there is no evidence that Chambers' sister ever played a part, as amanuensis or otherwise, in her brother's academic affairs. The next clue comes in a short article which appeared in Speculum in 1945 under the name of George R. Coffmann, who had written to Chambers just before his death in April 1942. The article reproduced a formal report (last revised 27 June 1944) prepared by Grattan on the state of the Piers Plowman edition.
At this stage, the edition was still intended for the Early English Text Society. Grattan writes, ‘Dr Chambers and I had worked out our principles of editing, and the first volume [presumably Pro IV] of our Critical A-text was practically ready ten years ago and more.’ He continues,
Almost at the last moment, however, it was found advisable to modify the original plan of printing the A-, B-, & C-texts separately (as in Skeat's E. E. T. S. edition) in favour of exhibiting the three texts of [sic; sc. ‘on’] one page or opening (as in Skeat's Oxford edn.). This change of plan, by which no portion of the Critical A-text could be published until the corresponding B- & C-texts should be ready, necessarily involved a somewhat indefinite postponement of the publication of the first volume of the projected E. E. T. S. edition.
Grattan also gives the whereabouts of his current collaborators.
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- Editing Piers PlowmanThe Evolution of the Text, pp. 310 - 328Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996