Helen M. Allen: A Neglected Scholar of More and Erasmus

Author: Schoeck Richard J.  

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

E-ISSN: 2398-4961|36(Number139-140)|3-4|57-62

ISSN: 0047-8105

Source: Moreana, Vol.36(Number139-140), Iss.3-4, 1999-12, pp. : 57-62

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Abstract

Despite a lack of formal university schooling in textual scholarship or in Renaissance studies, Helen Allen became a co-worker and co-editor with Percy Allen in the preparation of the great edition of the letters of Erasmus. Thanks to training she had received from her husband, she herself was largely responsible for the choices in Sir Thomas More, Selections (1924), and the Allens together worked on the notes and glossary.