Draft:Cora Scofield
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Comment: Most of the sources are her works which cannot be used to establish notability and much of this is unsourced. Also needs to be rewritten in a neutral manner. S0091 (talk) 16:20, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: I do not have access to all sources to review whether claims such as "Dr. Scofield's work has continued to remain a vital resource for scholars up to this day" are indeed verified, but note that External links should be removed or converted to inline citations where appropriate. See also WP:DOCTOR. Greenman (talk) 20:35, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Cora Scofield | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Thesis | A study of the Court of Star Chamber : largely based on manuscripts in the British Museum and the Public Record Office (1900) |
Cora Louise Scofield (February 6, 1870-March 10, 1962) was an American historian of late medieval England.
Early life and education
[edit]Cora Scofield was born in Washington, Iowa in 1870,[citation needed] the second of two daughters of a Union Army veteran, General Hiram Scofield, and his wife Amelia.[1] She attended Vassar College, graduating in 1890,[2][3] which she followed with a period of study at the University of Oxford in 1891-92.[citation needed] She graduated with a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1898, making her the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in history, which was only three years afte Myra Reynolds became the first women to get a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.[4]
Career
[edit]Scofield taught at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, from 1897 to 1902. Four years later, her father died and Scofield became her widowed mother's companion until Amelia Scofield's death in 1929. Scofield and her mother moved to Boston in 1912, where each of them would spend the remainder of their lives.
Scofield published her doctoral thesis, A Study of the Court of Star Chamber, in 1900. She then focused her studies on the reign of Edward IV of England, publishing articles on various aspects of his reign. In 1923, she published her two volume The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth. Historian and archivist Charles Johnson wrote that it was "likely to be the standard authority on that period of English history which his life covers, and not soon to be superseded." He considered that "[t]he most striking merit of Miss Scofield's work is her treatment of foreign relations. ... she makes constant use of French and Flemish sources", although he regretted that, "in view of the excellence of her work", she did not have access to some sources.[5] This was the first scholarly biography of that king and was the result of extensive research carried out by Scofield in the archives of England and the continent. Her book became not merely the defining history of the king and his reign for half a century, but was a landmark work for historians of later medieval England in general for its engagement with unprinted primary sources. Even after Charles Ross published his Edward IV in 1974, Scofield's work has continued to remain a vital resource for scholars.[6][7][8]
While Scofield's output all but ceased after the completion of her magnum opus, she remainder a respected scholar of the period, continuing to travel to Britain through the 1930s.[citation needed] Scofield died in Boston on March 10, 1962.[9]
Selected publications
[edit]- Scofield, Cora L. (1899). "1. Accounts of Star Chamber Dinners, 1593–4". The American Historical Review. 5 (1): 83–95. doi:10.1086/ahr/5.1.83. ISSN 1937-5239. Retrieved 2025-10-13.[10]
- Scofield, Cora L. (1906). "The Movements of the Earl of Warwick in the Summer of 1464". The English Historical Review. XXI (LXXXIV): 732–737. doi:10.1093/ehr/XXI.LXXXIV.732. ISSN 0013-8266. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
- Scofield, Cora L. (1909). "Elizabeth Wydevile in the Sanctuary at Westminster , 1470". The English Historical Review. XXIV (XCIII): 90–91. doi:10.1093/ehr/XXIV.XCIII.90. ISSN 0013-8266. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
- Scofield, Cora L. (1914). "The Early Life of John de Vere, thirteenth Earl of Oxford". The English Historical Review. XXIX (CXIV): 228–245. doi:10.1093/ehr/XXIX.CXIV.228. ISSN 0013-8266. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
- Scofield, Cora L. (1923). The life and reign of Edward the Fourth, King of England and France and Lord of Ireland. London: Longmans, Green and Co. OCLC 1367922.[11][12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Well-known Iowa Veteran Is Dead". Quad-City Times. Davenport, Iowa. Jan 2, 1907. p. 2. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
- ^ "Vassar's Commencement". Buffalo Weekly Express. Jun 12, 1890. p. 8. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
- ^ "Vassar Commencement". The Evening Republican. Meadville, Pennsylvania. Jun 12, 1890. p. 1. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
- ^ "University of Chicago". www.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
- ^ Johnson, Charles (July 1924). "Review: The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth". The Antiquaries Journal. 4 (3): 296–298. doi:10.1017/S0003581500006004.
- ^ Brondarbit, Alexander R. (2020). Power-brokers and the Yorkist State, 1461-1485. Boydell Press. p. xi. ISBN 9781783275342.
The references within will not do adequate justice to the numerous historians I have relied upon. Cora Scofield, Ralph Griffiths, Jack Lander, Rosemary Horrox , and Tony Pollard are especially deserving of mention.
- ^ Gregory, Phillipa; Baldwin, David; Jones, Michael (2011). The Women of the Cousins' War The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother. Atria Books. p. 231. ISBN 9781451629569.
Cora Scofield, whose admired biography of Edward IV was published in 1923, wrote that ....
- ^ Penn, Thomas (2019). "Acknowledgements.". The Brothers York An English Tragedy. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 9780718197292.
I want also to acknowledge three scholars, Cora Scofield, Charles Ross and, again, Rosemary Horrox, whose landmark studies of Edward IV and Richard III are crucial to an understanding of the two reigns spanned by this book.
- ^ Griffiths, Ralph A., Cora Louise Scofield (1870-1961): a memoir in Scofield, Cora L., The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth, reissue by Fonthill Media, 2016
- ^ Reviews of A study of the Court of Star Chamber
- Gairdner, James (1900). "Review of A Study of the Court of Star Chamber". The English Historical Review. 15 (60): 783–784. ISSN 0013-8266.
- W., R. B. (1903). "Review of A Study of the Court of Star Chamber, Largely Based on Manuscripts in the British Museum and the Public Record Office". The American Law Register (1898-1907). 51 (2): 122–123. doi:10.2307/3306946. ISSN 1558-3562.
- ^ Reviews of The life and reign of Edward the Fourth, King of England and France and Lord of Ireland
- Kingsford, C. L. (1924). "Review of The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth, King of England and of France and Lord of Ireland". The English Historical Review. 39 (154): 275–277. ISSN 0013-8266.
- Waugh, W. T. (1924). "Review of The Life and Reign of Edward IV". History. 9 (35): 241–243. ISSN 0018-2648.
- Elder, John Rawson (1924). "Review of The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth, King of England and of France". The Scottish Historical Review. 21 (84): 307–308. ISSN 0036-9241.
- ^ "The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth". The Daily Telegraph. London, England. Jul 18, 1924. p. 15. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
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