339:(1921) was credited to de Ricci alone, even though de Ricci himself noted: “Miss Henrietta C. Bartlett, whose share in my labours has been so considerable that in all fair justice her name should have appeared on the title page. Not only did she continually assist me in the collection of data, the preparation of the copy, and the arduous reading of the proofs, but her accurate mind and well-balanced judgment have done more than I am able to express towards making this
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that—without a traditional academic background—her legitimacy within the field of
Shakespeare studies might still be questioned. As she wrote wryly to a colleague in 1916: "I speak at U of P April 12th on 'Shakespeare Folios and Quartos' and Prof. Schelling is sadly asking if I have any academic degrees! Alas, I never heard of a degree and am merely a humble person who happens to know something about Shakespeare."
252:, which acknowledges that it is "modelled on and extends the groundbreaking bibliographic work of Henrietta C. Bartlett." The Shakespeare Census includes numerous additional copies of the plays that Bartlett catalogued, which were unknown to her in 1939, and also catalogues copies of a number of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean works not in her
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Subjects included textual editing, cataloguing, collecting, provenance, and the history of printing, as well as lectures on a range of topics and authors in
English literature: Shakespeare, seventeenth-century poetry, English prose fiction, and Alexander Pope. She also led private courses for women in her home.
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was favorably reviewed in a range of publications and
Bartlett received letters of thanks from major scholars and collectors in the field. In the ensuing years, she published prolifically on the early texts of Shakespeare’s plays and was frequently asked to give public lectures. Still, she recognized
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in New York City. Her early work in the field was as a private librarian and cataloguer to
Beverly Chew and William A. White, major collectors of their day. In this capacity, Bartlett could examine first-hand copies of most of the early editions of Shakespeare and contemporary writers, which prepared
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was the first attempt to locate and catalogue systematically all extant copies of
Shakespeare quartos before 1709. The project relied on the existing expertise of Bartlett and Pollard, but it also incorporated bibliographic data from many libraries, universities, booksellers, and private collectors;
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In the 1920s and 1930s, Bartlett gave lectures in the bibliography at Yale, at a time when university courses in the bibliography were rare in the United States. Bartlett herself noted that there were “no regular lectures on these subjects except in some of the large colleges and those very recent.”
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University. RU 36, b. 5, ff. 236-238. Bartlett gave invited lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of London School of Librarianship (see Henrietta C. Bartlett Papers, Gen MSS 336, Box 5, folder 252), and the New York
187:, the major women's bibliophile club. She remained actively involved in the New York City bibliophilic community throughout her life, where she was known not only as a bibliographer but also as a curator of public exhibits, including a major exhibit on Shakespeare at the
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Bartlett later noted that she had sent out over 400 letters requesting information in the lead-up to publication in 1916. Bartlett continued to revise and expand the existing data, and (without
Pollard) she compiled a new and more complete edition of the
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Bartlett spent her retirement living in Old Lyme, although she maintained a lively correspondence on bibliographic matters with a wide range of colleagues at Yale and elsewhere. She died in 1963, aged 90, and is buried in Old Lyme's
Griswold Cemetery.
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was praised by, among others, the bookseller
Frederick Ferguson (of Quaritch Ltd), the collector Henry Folger, and the Folger Reference Librarian Giles Dawson. See Henrietta C Bartlett Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University. Gen MSS 336, Box
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scholar, and creator of the first modern census of
Shakespeare's published drama. She has been called "one of the foremost bibliographers of her time," despite working in a scholarly field in which "the overwhelming majority has been male."
304:, for instance, noting that she had typed her letter to him herself "as I am afraid of mistakes of importance if I have it copied, unfortunately I am not as good a typist as a bibliographer, hence the erasures." Her papers, now at the
172:; the two were close friends throughout their lives. Bartlett possibly spent some time as a schoolteacher in the late 1890s and early 1900s, when she is listed as living at the Robert Bartlett School in New London, Connecticut.
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She had three siblings: a brother, Charles G. Bartlett, who attended Yale; another brother, Commander Harold “Harry” Bartlett, a Navy airman; and a sister, Sarah, who married John Payne and lived in New Mexico. Bartlett lived in
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All of the major Shakespeare collectors of the day corresponded with Bartlett, often seeking her advice on their copies. She sorted out the proper ordering of the preliminary material in the First Folio for
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Catalogue of the exhibition of Shakespeareana held at the New York public library, April 2 to July 15, 1916, in commemoration of the tercentenary of Shakespeare's death
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A catalogue of the David N. Carvalho collection of incunabula, consisting of a sequence of dated books 1470-1499, together with a number of sixteenth century books
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Mr. William Shakespeare, original and early editions of his quartos and folios; his source books and those containing contemporary notices
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Henrietta C. Bartlett Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University. Gen MSS 336, Box 1, folder 90.
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Henrietta C Bartlett Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University. Gen MSS 336, Box 1, folder 64.
510:""Comdr. Harry Bartlett, Navy Air Pioneer, Dies" (Naval Hospital Oakland Scrapbook 1955-1962)"
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562:"Ruth Shepard Granniss, Grolier Librarian, Scholar, & Lecturer: A Truly Remarkable Woman"
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for most of her life. She attended boarding school in New England, where she first met
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and received an MA in 1888; he later ran a school in Old Lyme, Black Hall School.
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in 1916, Bartlett was widely regarded as a "bibliographer of distinction." The
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A garland of poppies gathered by Ruth S. Granniss and Henrietta C. Bartlett.
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Often her work went less acknowledged than that of her male collaborators.
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Extant autograph material by Shakespeare's fellow dramatists
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acceptable to the public and useful to the general reader.”
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has been expanded and updated in an online version, the
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her to write the Census that is her greatest legacy.
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A census of Shakespeare's plays in quarto, 1594-1709
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A census of Shakespeare's plays in quarto, 1594-1709
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175:In 1900, she enrolled in library school at the
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384:Exhibition of Shakespeariana, April 2-May 31
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209:In 1913, Bartlett was commissioned by the
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237:provides a wealth of information on the
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425:First editions of Shakespeare's quartos
215:Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto
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846:"LETTERS TO HENRIETTA C. BARTLETT"
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705:. September 16, 1963. p. 2.
387:, New York Public Library, 1916.
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560:Abraham, Mildred (2006).
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