F. J. Furnivall's Six of the Best: "The Six-Text Canterbury Tales" and the Chaucer Society

Author / Editor
Spencer, H. L.

Title
F. J. Furnivall's Six of the Best: "The Six-Text Canterbury Tales" and the Chaucer Society

Published
Review of English Studies 66, no. 276 (2015): 601-23

Description
Details Furnivall's founding of the Chaucer Society in 1868, and argues that his greatest contribution was his parallel text edition of CT, a publication that has far-reaching consequences for the later editing of Chaucer. Brief references to Astr, Bo, WBT, ClT, KnT, HF, NPT, and PardPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations