Helen Hills Research Articles

New Perspectives on The Authorship Question

What seemed at the time a futile attempt to make peace between Charlton Ogburn and the FolgerLibrary remains vivid in my memory. By 1970, Ogburn, son of noted exponents of the theory that Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays usually attributed to William Shakespeare, had become the leading spokesman for the Oxfordian case. The Folger, under Louis B. Wright, who had retired as director in 1969, adhered to the orthodox view of the authorship question and displayed its orthodoxy with a contempt for dissenters that was as mean-spirited as it was loudly trumpeted. Reconciliation was a daunting task, for the question of the authorship of Shakespeare's work rouses wild passions in people otherwise placid and uncontentious. I understood why the Folger, besides being a Shakespeare library, was a center for Reformation and Counter-Reformation studies: the elemental intellectual armageddons typical of the late Renaissance could be replicated by a reader's mentioning the Shakespeare authorship question at the Folger's traditional afternoon tea and observing the vituperative avalanche which followed. The obloquy was usually directed against the unorthodox: understandably, few anti-Stratfordians were among the Library's readers. In the early Seventies, two stalwart friends of the Library, Francis and Helen Hill Miller, had hoped that Charlton Ogburn could somehow be reconciled to the Folger. The work of Ogburn's parents and anti-Stratfordian sentiment in gen-

Bixler Accepts Criticism Award

Bixler Accepts Criticism Award Phyllis Bixler The Children's Literature Association Criticism Award is a special honor because it comes from persons who like myself are studying, teaching, and writing about children's literature. It is also an honor to follow two Award winners who have been contributors to the field much longer than I have, Aiden Chambers and Leonard Clark. To thank the Children's Literature Association for this award, I would like to mention some of the ways I have benefited from its services. In doing so, I am sure that I speak for many other members, especially those who like myself have begun professional careers in children's literature during the past five or ten years. Perhaps most obviously, I am grateful for the Association's affiliated journal, Children's Literature, which published my article. At a time when academic survival is not easy, Children's Literature and the expanded Quarterly have provided needed outlets for publication, and I have often found that the varied materials in these journals could inform my teaching as well as stimulate my research. The Association is to be commended also for its recently established Fellowship Awards to further encourage scholarship in the field. Click for larger view View full resolution Illustration by Anne Burgess for Dusk to Dawn: Poems of Night, selected by Helen Hill, Agnes Perkins, and Alethea Helbig, to be published by Crowell Junior Books, Spring 1981. In comparing the content of my article on Frances Hodgson Burnett with that of the two previous award winning articles, I notice something [End Page 1] else I appreciate about the Association—its encouragement of a variety of approaches to children's literature. The previous essays both addressed the issue of the special audience for children's literatures Chambers suggested ways of finding "The Reader in the Book" and Clark explored relationships between "Poetry and Children" (emphasis added). Since the most distinguishing feature of children's literature is its special audience, this kind of study is essential. Also needed, however, are more traditional literary studies such as mine of Burnett, essays which emphasize the relationship between the teller and the tale rather than that between the tale and the audience. Dialogue is sometimes difficult among persons who approach children's literature from different academic disciplines or professional concerns, but we can learn much from such interchanges. I hope that through its membership, its meetings, its journals and other activities, the Association will continue to encourage a variety of approaches to children's literature. I would like to end on a more personal note. Not least of what I owe the Association are the professional and personal friendships it has enabled me to make and continue. And I look for more. Thank you. Phyllis Bixler Kansas State University Copyright © 1980 Children's Literature Association

Book Reviews

AbstractBook reviewed in this article:The Founding of New Societies: Studies in the History of the United States, Latin America, South Africa, Canada, and Australia. By Louis Hartz, with contributions by Kenneth D. McRae, Richard M. Morse, Richard N. Rosecrnace, and Leonard M. Thompson.An Introduction to the Study of History. By V. H. Galbraith.Frederick Jackson Turner's Legacy: Unpublished Writings in American History. Edited with an Introduction by Wilbur R. Jacobs.The Rise of the West, 1754–1830. By Francis S. Philbrick.The Politics of Reconstruction, 1863–1867. By David Donald.Prohibition and Politics: Turbulent Decades in Tennnessee, 1885–1920. By Paul E. Isaac.The Arts In Early American History: Needs And Opportunities for Study. By Walter M. Whitehil. Bibliography by Wendell Garrett and Jane. N. Garrett.Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Response, 1787–1862. By Robert H. Berkhofer, Jr.The Old Republicans: Southern Conservation in the Age of Jefferson. By Norman K. Risjord.Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem. By James C. Olson.Emigration and Disenchantment: Portraits of Englishmen Repatriated from the United States. By Wilbur S. Shepperson.New England and the South Seas. By Ernest S. Dodge.The Great Departure, the United States and World War I, 1914–1920. By Daniel M. Smith.Lincoln's Attorney General: Edward Bates of Missouri. By Marvin R. Cain.Turner, Bolton, and Webb: Three Historians of the American Frontier. By Wilbur R. Jacobs, John W. Caughey, and Joe B. Frantz.The Savages of America: A Study of the Indian and the Idea of Civilization. By Roy Harvey Pearce. Revised edition.The Case for Liberty. By Helen Hill Miller.Salt as a Factor in the Confederacy. By Ella Lonn.The Mémoire Justificatif of the Chevalier Montault de Monberaut: Indian Diplomacy in British West Florida, 1763–1765. Translated with an Introduction by Milo B. Howard, Jr. and Robert R. Rea.The Fur Trader and the Indian. By Lewis O. Saum.John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier. By Merlin Stonehouse.England, Europe and the Upper Nile: 1882–1899. By G. N. Sanderson. Edinburg University Publications: History, Philosophy and Economics, No. 18.Men Against the Mountains: Jedediah Smith and the Great South West Expedition of 1826‐29. By Alson J. Smith.From the Dreadnaught to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904–1919. Vol. II, The War Years: To The Eve of Jutland. By Arthur J. Marder.Nationalisation of British Politics: The Historical Backgroung. By Eldon Barry.Carteret's Voyage Round the World, 1766–1769. Edited by Helen Wallis.The Cabal. By Maurice Lee, Jr.Mathew Arnold and John Stuart Mill. By Edward Alexander.The Political Journal of George Bubb Dodington. Edited with an Introduction by John Carswell and Lewis Arnold Dralle.The West Indies and the Development of Colonial Government: 1801–1834. By D. J. Murray. Early West Indian Governments, Showing the Progress of Government in Barbados, Jamaica and the Leeward Islands, 1660–1783. By F. G. Spurdle.Salisbury and the Mediterranean, 1886–1896. By C. J. Lowe. Studies in Political History.The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770–1812. Volume III: 1795–1798. Edited by A. AspinallLost Soldiers: The French Army and Empire in Crisis, 1947–1962. By George Armstrong Kelly.Napoleon and the Birth of Modern Spain. By Gabriel H. Lovett. 2 vols.Marshal Massena. By James Marshall‐Cornwall.The French Socialists and Tripartisem 1944–1947. By B. D. Graham.Germany: Yesterday and Tomorrow. By Peter H. Merkl.Francesco Guicciardini: Selected Writings. Edited with an Introduction by Cecil Grayson. Translated by Margaret GraysonRome of the Caesars. By Thomas W. Africa.The Emperor Caius (Caligula). By J. P. V. D. Balsdon.A Short History of Greece from Early Times to 1964. By W. A. Heurtley, H. C. Darby, C. W. Crawley, and C. M. woodhouse.Revolutions and Military Rule in the Middle East: the Northern Tier. By George M. Haddad.Lebanon, Improbable Nation. A Study in Political Development. By Leila M. T. Meo.Local Government in japan. By Kurt Steiner.A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The “Sierra Leonians” in Yoruba, 1830–1890. By Jean Herskovits Kopytoff.Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia: 1835–1851. By Michael Roe. (Melbourne:Empres in the Wilderness: Foreign colonization and Development inGuatemala, 1834–1844. By William J. GriffithA Short History of Machine Tools. By L. T. C. Rolt.

THE MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATIONS AND THE OCCURRENCE OF ANEUPLOIDS IN SOME SPECIES OF AGROSTIS IN RHODE ISLAND

THE MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATIONS AND THE OCCURRENCE OF ANEUPLOIDS IN SOME SPECIES OF AGROSTIS IN RHODE ISLAND

George Mason, Constitutionalist

Journal Article George Mason, Constitutionalist. By Helen Hill. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938. xxii + 300 pp. Illustrations and appendix. $3.50.) Get access Dice R. Anderson Dice R. Anderson Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 25, Issue 3, December 1938, Pages 401–402, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897273 Published: 01 December 1938

The Giant of the Western World, by Francis Miller, Helen Hill

The Giant of the Western World, <i>by Francis Miller, Helen Hill</i>

The Giant of the Western World: America and Europe in a North-Atlantic Civilization. By Francis Miller and Helen Hill. (New York: William Morrow and Company. Pp. x, 308.)

The Giant of the Western World: America and Europe in a North-Atlantic Civilization. By Francis Miller and Helen Hill. (New York: William Morrow and Company. Pp. x, 308.)