Ruth Willard Hughey Annotated Transcriptions of the Harington Manuscript later published in
The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry
SPEC.RARE.CMS.0206
Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
0.4 Cubic feet
1935-1936, 1972
Dr. Ruth Willard Hughey (1899-1980) was an American professor of English who was born in Gentry, Arkansas. The Ruth Willard Hughey Annotated Transcriptions of the Harington Manuscript later published in
The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, dated 1935-1936, 1972, contains transcriptions of and notes about 324 mostly previously-unpublished 16th-century poems.
(1) 5" letter document box
English
Hughey, Ruth Willard, 1899-1980
Arrangement of Materials
This collection is arranged in the order prescribed by its creator. Ruth Willard Hughey numbered each transcription and the collection is arranged in the order that she numbered the items.
Acquisitions Information
Donated by Ruth Willard Hughey, 1972 February
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Biographical Note
Dr. Ruth Willard Hughey (1899-1980) was an American professor of English who was born in Gentry, Arkansas. She was educated at Galloway Women's College (as of 2022, Hendrix College), Columbia University, and Cornell University. In 1925 she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in 16th century English literature. Later, she served as an instructor of English at the University of Missouri and a professor of English at Ohio State University. Dr. Hughey was best known for studying, transcribing, and editing a group of previously unpublished 16th century poems, later known as
The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, which was published by Ohio State University Press in 1960. She died at age 81 in Atlanta, Georgia, where she had retired after being named professor emeritus of English at Ohio State.
Scope and Contents
The Ruth Willard Hughey Annotated Transcriptions of the Harington Manuscript later published in
The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, dated 1935-1936, 1972, contains transcriptions of and notes about 324 mostly previously-unpublished 16th-century poems. In 1934, while searching for poems written by Elizabethan women, Ruth Hughey found a 16th-century folio of over 300 poems in the Arundel Castle in Sussex, England. This folio had been the second of two used by Dr. George Frederick Nott in the early 19th century as research material for his work on the poets Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Nott's first volume had previously been transcribed and made available to researchers, but no one knew where the second volume was, until Hughey found it. This began a years-long project to study and transcribe the manuscript, culminating in her publishing of
The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry by Ohio State University Press in 1960. This collection of transcriptions represents some of Dr. Hughey's early work with the Arundel Harington Manuscript that formed the basis for her book. In 1972, Dr. Hughey donated this collection to the Ohio State University Libraries and created a typed title page commemorating the donation.
The original volume was compiled by John Harington of Stepney and his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston, who hand-copied poems by Henry Howard, Thomas Wyatt, John Cheke, and other poets of the time, and it included two poems by Queen Elizabeth I, as well as authors that had previously been unknown before publication of Dr. Hughey's work. It contained poems written from about 1540 to 1600.
Hughey, Ruth Willard, 1899-1980
English poetry--16th century
Transcriptions (documents)
Women scholars--United States--20th century
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Transcriptions 272-324
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