Judith Ramsay also published an article, "The Garden of Adonis and the
Garden of Forms" (1965-66 UTQ) that I found most helpful.
Jim Broaddus
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From: "Germaine Warkentin" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:02 AM
Subject: In Memoriam: Judith (Ramsay) Hinchcliffe
> Dr. Judith Hinchcliffe of Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, died on Friday,
> January 17, 2003 of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Spenserians
> interested in book VI of the _Faerie Queene_ will remember the article
> on her favourite work that she published (I think under her maiden name,
> Judith Ramsay) in the _University of Toronto Quarterly_ in the
> late1960s, which produced an immediate (and to a grad student very
> flattering) response from Alastair Fowler. Her doctoral thesis, "The
> steele-head speare and the shepheards hooke; a study of book VI of The
> Faerie queene" (1971), was supervised by Millar MacLure. Before her
> doctoral work she had taught at the University of Western Ontario and
> after it at the University of Waterloo and Conestoga College, but
> retired from academic life in the 1980s. Judith had a lively interest
> in the theatre and especially in Renaissance English drama, and was an
> enthusiastic member of the Stratford Festival audience until illness
> made that impossible. In 1984 she published the lengthy and thoroughly
> researched _King Henry VI, parts 1, 2, and 3 : an annotated
> bibliography_ (New York: Garland, 1984). Judith had a vivid wit and a
> sharp mind; she was among the most engaging and respected graduate
> students of her era at Toronto. Her illness was a tragic one, isolating
> her mind, which remained as keen as always, within a catastrophically
> disintegrating physical fabric. As her life was drawing to a close, her
> daughter Margaret (who programmes web sites for the University of
> Waterloo's Engineering Department) and her husband Peter (a Victorianist
> recently retired from St. Jerome's College, University of Waterloo, read
> aloud to her the entire _Faerie Queene_, a session every morning
> (Margaret) and one every evening (Peter). It took two and a half
> months. As Peter said after her funeral yesterday," in a way it's a good
> thing she couldn't tell us if she was enjoying it as we were going
> through some of the really slow bits. But she lived to hear her
> favourite, book VI, once more." Judith was a dear and intellectually
> demanding companion of my graduate school days, and would have delighted
> in this Spenserian conclusion to her admirable life. Germaine Warkentin
>
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