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Ruth
Loyd Miller
was born in Ida, Louisiana, and graduated form LSU in 1942. She later
attended the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. After reading
law, she passed the Louisiana Bar Exam in 1957 and was a member of
the Louisiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
In 1967 she was admitted to practice law before the United States
Supreme Court. As an attorney, she was a tireless advocate for issues
that supported women's rights. She was the first woman to serve on
the Louisiana Mineral Board; a delegate and first Vice-Chairman of
the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1973; and in 1984 the first
woman to be elected Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana
State University System of which she was a member for 14 years from
1974-1988. In 1987, she earned a Masters of Arts degree in English
literature from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She was
a member of Mortar Board, Phi Kappa Phi, and the National Woman of
the Year for the Delta Zeta Sorority. In 1995 she was admitted to
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RESEARCH ARTICLES: THE
HARVEY-NASHE QUARREL AND LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Detobel's Collected Essays CONTENTS INTRODUCTION - [pdf file] PART I PART II - PDF File - 1 MB; 122 pages PART III
The world of Shakespearean authorship studies lost one of its greatest champions September 15, 2005, with the passing of the legendary Ruth Loyd Miller. For many of us, Ruth's editions of Looney, Clark, and both Wards (bound in purple covers and brimming with illustrations and lavish color portraits), are her most enduring legacy, for not only did she maintain the worldwide availability of these seminal works but she also provided her own copius research and brilliant annotations, and her aptly named companion volume, Oxfordian Vistas. As many Oxfordians, Shakespearean students and scholars know from personal experience, Ruth Miller answered all queries about the Authorship with boundless enthusiasm, generously bringing her years of study into play, sharing it all with a sublimely ironic wit and humor in an ever-courtly Mississippi Delta drawl. For Ruth the voice on the other end of the telephone line could belong to one whose unique contribution would ultimately trigger the great sea-change in the world's view of the man who was Shakespeare, thus she always treated you as if you might be that one. It is with a keen sense of her profound contribution to all who are engaged in this extraordinary adventure, and to all those who will embark on this journey of discovery, that we honor and celebrate the life of our beloved friend and mentor Ruth Loyd Miller. We are deeply blessed to have known her, and she will live in our hearts and minds to the end of our days. - K.C. Ligon, Independent scholar, Trustee of the Shakespeare Fellowship Research into and interest
in the Oxford theory of Shakespeare in Germany is of relatively recent
inception. Along with Charlton Ogburn Jr, Ruth Loyd Miller and her husband,
Minos, are held here in the highest esteem as belonging to a generation
spurred more by the desire of serving the cause than by self-serving.
Something of this spirit might have been lost in the course of more
recent times. Probably, and hopefully, this spirit will be fully restored,
re-membered. Remembering, as Shakespeare himself put it, is the toll
the ferryman Charon has no right to, because his boat is too light for
it, it remains this side of Styx and Lethe, of darkness and oblivion.
And so death is sometimes the last and only resort of revival. What
merely lives on is by the living often perceived as gone, forgotten,
what is gone by them remembered and returned to life. Alive we are but
living, only death spends the proper light to a full life. A full life
is never contained in itself, it is what lives on by ending. And in
this end never ends, but continues as witness. Ruth Loyd Miller's life
is such a witness. She has rendered herself the greatest service by
not having been self-serving. -- Robert Detobel
Robert Detobel of Frankfurt, Germany is a translator, publicist and co-editor of the Neues Shakes-speare Journal, a European Oxfordian publication. Before getting involved in the authorship debate in 1982, he published on Third World issues and translated works from French sociologist Alain Touraine. Recently, he has published a book and many articles on the authorship question and addressed numerous Oxfordian conventions. |