She obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1898, then taught there in the English department before leaving to become a schoolteacher and independent scholar.
[6] Discoveries by A. I. Doyle, Richard Firth Green, Jeremy Griffiths, and Linne R. Mooney have since increased the total known manuscripts by this scribe to fifteen.
[1] In English Verse between Chaucer and Surrey, Hammond gives a broad, sociological explanation of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century literature, anticipating the culture-historical approaches that would become more common in the field over the course of the twentieth century.
[1] According to Derek Pearsall, "her formulations were clear and confident, and startlingly original for an audience of medieval scholars who were generally so little conversant with sociological theory that they were hardly aware of its existence.
[1] Her scholarship is accurate, lively, and enduring, but her status as an outsider of the academy caused her to receive less attention from biographers compared to scholars of similar importance.