Private Owners, Public Books: Henrietta Bartlett’s Feminist Bibliography

Abstract

T first attempt to locate and systematically catalog all extant copies of Shakespeare quartos, Henrietta Bartlett and Alfred Pollard’s Census of Shakespeare’s Plays in Quarto, 1594–1709 is a landmark achievement in the ongoing effort to make textual scholarship accessible. As soon as the book was published in 1916, it became a widely-used reference work; it remains so in the form of an expanded, online database