Edith Rickert

Edith Rickert

Edith Rickert (1871–1938) was an influential medieval scholar at the University of Chicago, whose foundational work includes the Chaucer Life-Records and the eight-volume Text of the Canterbury Tales (1940).

Rickert's name and achievements are inextricably linked with those of John M. Manly (1865–1940). Close colleagues and collaborators for some 40 years at the University of Chicago, they worked jointly on the Chaucer Life-Records and the Text of the Canterbury Tales, which took sixteen years to complete, the first volume of which Rickert did not live to see published. Manly, president of the Modern Language Association of America (1920) and later of the Medieval Academy of America (1929–30), was posthumously recognized by being awarded such honors as the Haskins Medal for his work on the Chaucer manuscripts. Rickert, however, was eclipsed by Manly's shadow and is only now beginning to receive her the recognition she deserves.^[1]

Works

Manly, John M. & Edith Rickert eds. (1940): The Text of the Canterbury Tales: studied on the basis of all known manuscripts; with the aid of Mabel Dean, Helen McIntosh and Others. With a chapter on illuminations by Margaret Rickert, 8 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Rickert, Edith (1923): The Bojabi Tree. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company
Rickert, Edith (1929): The Greedy Goroo. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company.
Rickert, Edith (1902): Out of the Cypress Swamp [A novel.]. London: Methuen.
Rickert, Edith (1948): Chaucer's World. Compiled by E. Rickert. Edited by Clair C. Olson and Martin M. Crow. Illustrations selected by Margaret Rickert. Oxford University Press: London; Columbia Univ. Press.

References

↑ William Snell, "A Woman Medievalist Much Maligned: A Note in Defense of Edith Rickert (1871–1938)," in: Eminent Chaucerians? Early Women Scholars and the History of Reading Chaucer, ed. Richard Utz and Peter Schneck, Philologie im Netz (Supplement 4, 2009), pp. 41-54.

Bibliography

Kane, George (1984): "John M. Manly and Edith Rickert", in: Paul G. Ruggiers, ed. Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition. Norman, Oklahoma: Pilgrim Books. Pp. 207–29.
Ramsey, Roy Vance (1994): The Manly-Rickert Text of the Canterbury Tales. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.
Scala, Elizabeth (Fall 2000): "Scandalous Assumptions: Edith Rickert and the Chicago Chaucer Project", in: Medieval Feminist Forum: 27–37.
Scala, Elizabeth (2005): 'Miss Rickert of Vassar' and Edith Rickert at the University of Chicago (1871–1938)", in: Women Medievalists and the Academy, ed. Jane Chance. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 127–45.
Tomasch, Sylvia (Fall 2004): "Editing as Palinode: The Invention of Love and the Text of the Canterbury Tales", in: Exemplaria 16:2, 457–76.

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