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The ballad world of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland / Ruth Perry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Ruth, 1943- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gordon, Anna, 1747-1810.
- Gordon, Anna.
- Enlightenment--Scotland.
- Enlightenment.
- Ballads, Scots--Scotland--History and criticism.
- Ballads, Scots.
- Folk songs, Scots--Scotland--History and criticism.
- Folk songs, Scots.
- Women lyricists--Scotland--Biography.
- Women lyricists.
- Scotland--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Scotland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- This is a scholarly biography of Anna Gordon Brown, posthumously known as Mrs Brown of Falkland, an eighteenth-century Scottish ballad collector. This pioneering study takes us to the overlapping worlds of vernacular music during its rediscovery at the dawn of the Romantic Revival.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 24, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-893997-3
- 0-19-893995-7
- OCLC:
- 1511291532
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