%0 Journal Article
%@ 0027-4666
%A Chrissochoidis, I.
%D 2007
%F discovery:19076
%J The Musical Times
%N 1898
%P 49-58
%T A Handel relative in Britain?
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/19076/
%V 148
%X This essay offers a scholarly meditation on a biographical  oddity first reported in my doctoral thesis 'Early reception  of Handel's oratorios, IJ3Z—IJ84: narrative—studies-documents' (Ann Arbor: UMI, 2004). It also forms a case study of applying surgical focus on a minimal documentary surface. The result IS organic scholarship of open ends, wide implications and joyful inquisitiveness; qualities presently undervalued in academia yet indispensable  for genuine humanistic research. I am thankful to  Ellen T. Harris for her encouragement and support,  and to Karol Berger and Thomas S. Grey for easing my  transition to postdoctoral life.