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2021
During May to July, 2021, as a Researcher at the Portico Library (Manchester), part of my project compiled a Reading List of British Folklore housed in the historic collection. The Portico Library's collection of books and journals containing folklore, popular antiquity, and historic records of events and landmarks only explainable by traditions passed down from "time immemorial" represents, importantly, the interests of a specific readership. This readership constitutes the members of the Portico Library from 1806 to the present day. As books housed therein are admitted by member donation or suggestion, the collection marks the rise in interest folklore and adjacent fields in nineteenth-century Manchester and attests the sustained fascination with the evolution of our society's reckoning with its surroundings and cultural history. As William Henderson writes in his introduction to Notes on the folk lore of the northern counties of England in 1866 (found in the Portico under shelf mark Wf 34), "I became a Folk Lore student before Folk Lore came into vogue as a pursuit" (vii), putting into perspective the emergence of the field of Folklore Studies in the nineteenth century.
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John Roby, Source File: Traditions of Lancashire and Other Relevant Material for Folklore
It is true that all these pages can be found online, but the development of Roby's Traditions is complicated and my failure to understand this has bedevilled my work on Lancashire folklore over the years. So they are gathered together in one place. You'll find here: A) The four volumes of Traditions that were published in 1829 (2) and 1831 (2). B) Some later prefaces and introductions to subsequent editions C) The biography from the posthumous Remains published by Roby’s widow and three ‘traditional’ stories that were included there, but not in Roby's early works.
Beliefs and Customs in Marie Balfour's Collection of Stories set in the Lincolnshire Carrs
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A Rare Treasure of Cornish Folklore
Lien Gwerin: A Journal of Cornish Folklore Number 8, 2024
This is an abridged chapter for a planned sequel to my book, The Folklore of Cornwall: The Oral Tradition of a Celtic Nation (Exeter 2018). Cornish revivalist, R. Morton Nance (1873-1959), celebrated this remarkable seventeenth century Cornish-language folktale, a manifestation of type ATU 910B (Aarne-Thompson-Uther 910B 'The Observance of the Master's Precepts'). He concluded that as the indigenous language of Cornwall faded, so too did most folklore. Nance dismissed nineteenth century versions as poor renditions of this original. Analysis here demonstrates the folktale's survival, even as language shifted to English. Nance's conclusion that folklore died with language was incorrect.
English Studies, 2001
In the final decades of the Eighteenth century and the opening years of the Nineteenth century the efforts and achievements of a (relatively) small number of antiquarians and scholars returned a wealth of medieval romances and ballads to the attention of readers. Although the social status, political sympathies and intellectual contacts of those editors can be shown to have exercised a powerful influence on the textual history of the editions through which medieval texts were made available to a wider public 1 , the personal and working relationships of the scholars involved in editing and publishing medieval romances have been rarely investigated. Uncovering such influences has proved a difficult task when, as a result of loss or deliberate suppression, records of the editorial processes are both sparse and misleading. One source so far overlooked is found in National Library of Wales manuscripts 5599 and 5600c, which bear a selection of dedicatory and marginal notes shedding a revealing, if oblique, light on the complex culture of collaboration and personal rivalry which influenced the pursuit of antiquarian studies in this period. National Library of Wales manuscripts 5599 and 5600c comprise two volumes, uniformly bound in russia, of transcriptions of eight English metrical romances written in two hands at the close of the Eighteenth Century, and bearing marginal comments and notes in an additional three hands. The first contains transcriptions of La Mort Arthur (from MS Harley 2252), Sir Tryamour (from a Copland print from Garrick's collection), Sir Eglamoure of Artois (from a print by Walley) and Ipomydon (from MS Harley 2252). The second volume contains transcripts of Ywaine and Gawaine (from MS Cotton Galba E ix), The Squyr of Lowe Degre (from a Copland print), Launfal Miles (from MS Cotton Caligula A ii) and Kyng Horn (from MS Harley 2253). The paper of the two volumes displays a selection of five watermarks, bearing (variously) the dates 1798 and 1799, a shield device, the initials GR and E&P and (in the second volume) the words EDMEADS & PINE, which identifies the paper as having been made at the Ivy Mill papermill in Kent. 2 127
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Folklore, 2024
While neither William Forsell Kirby (1844-1912) nor William Alexander Clouston (1843-96) is entirely unfamiliar, both have been rather eclipsed in our knowledge of the early history of British folklore studies. A cache of letters from Clouston to Kirby allows us some new insight into the work of these active and significant folklore scholars and into the wider network of British and international folklorists. The letters also shed further light on the relatively undocumented life of Clouston, who died young and single.