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Dear Peter and everyone This is very sad news indeed. I hadn't seen Jane for quite a long time but I remember meeting her on a number of occasions when she was embarking on her REED work. She was a great character - Peter, your account of her 'naval officer/lady of the manor' approach to reluctant archivists brings her to mind wonderfully! Thank you for your tribute to her. She has left us her valuable work, but it's another sad personal loss for the REED community. Diana Dr Diana Wyatt P/T Research Associate, Durham University, Department of English Studies, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham DH1 3AY, UK. REED NE Project: http://community.dur.ac.uk/reed.ne ________________________________________ From: REED-L: Records of Early English Drama Discussion [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of CARPENTER Sarah [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 07 January 2015 12:31 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Jane Cowling I came to Jane's work through the Winchester records on the REED pre-publication site. They are an impressive and generous legacy to the rest of us. I'm so glad that she had the chance to see them published and to contribute to the launch of the site. Sarah On 05/01/2015 17:15, Peter Greenfield wrote: > Members of the REED community-- > It is with a heavy heart that I have to report that Jane Cowling, co-editor of the Hampshire collection for REED, died recently in Brecon, Wales, after a brief illness. After a career in the Navy and raising two children, Jane decided to return to university as a mature student, gaining a BA and then a PhD at the University of Southampton, where she worked with John McGavin. Her doctoral thesis was an edition of the dramatic records of Winchester and Winchester College from 1558-1642, following REED protocols. When Jane and I decided to work together to edit the records of all of Hampshire for REED, she extended her work on Winchester back to the fourteenth century, and also edited records from Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. The majority of her edited records are now available on the REED Pre-Publication Collections website (www.reedprepub.org), with the rest to appear in the next few months. Jane also published interpretive articles on this research in Medieval Englis! h ! > Theatre, Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. > > I shall greatly miss collaborating with Jane, not least getting to play good cop in our good cop/bad cop act when confronted with archive staff reluctant to let us see a document because it was too damaged, or too late in the day, etc. Jane’s bad cop, seemingly equal parts naval officer and imperious lady of the manor, simply refused to believe that a reasonable person wouldn’t accede to our request--and soon we would have the document in our hands. My knowledge of Hampshire comes as much from traveling the county with Jane as from research in the archives; she was a generous colleague and a wonderful friend. She will be missed by the REED community. Yours, > Peter Greenfield -- Sarah Carpenter English Literature School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures University of Edinburgh 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LH The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.