Mrs. Brown's "Lass of Roch Royal" and the Golden Age of Scottish Balladry

Pettitt, Thomas

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“…of the ballad tradition. See for example, Bronson (1945), Perry (2013, 297), Pettitt (1984), Rieuwerts (2011).…”

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“… 13 13 Much has been written about the ballads of Anna Gordon following Child's appraisal of her repertoire as paradigmatic of the ballad tradition. See for example, Bronson (1945), Perry (2013, 297), Pettitt (1984), Rieuwerts (2011). I have provided two separate controls for the potential skewing effects of Anna Gordon's ballads: (1) using a dummy variable for Anna Gordon ballads, and (2) dropping all Anna Gordon ballads.…”

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“… 18 18 The differences between versions of the same ballad recorded from Mrs Brown of Falkland are discussed in Buchan (1972) and Pettitt (1984). …”

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A woman's tradition? Quantifying gender difference in the Child ballads

Duggan

2023

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While the major ballad‐collecting efforts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were largely carried out by men, the academic discourse surrounding ballads gendered traditional balladry—orally transmitted narrative poetry—as a woman's tradition. Subsequent ballad scholarship of the twentieth century perpetuated the antiquarian notion of a specifically female ballad tradition, and yet it has remained unclear whether and how this women's tradition should be considered distinct from, for example, a male ballad tradition. This study suggests that a quantitative approach can be used to investigate the question of difference in women's and men's ballad repertoires in the period spanning the mid‐eighteenth century to the close of the nineteenth. Employing Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) software to examine the definitive ballad anthology—the Child collection—this study finds that the notion of a woman's tradition goes beyond stereotypical notions of repertoires gendered by genre; women's ballads are instead found to be characterised by distinctive linguistic patterns that convey a strong focus on female subjectivity.

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2023

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The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789

Ingrassia¹

2015

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Women writers played a central role in the literature and culture of eighteenth-century Britain. Featuring essays on female writers and genres by leading scholars in the field, this Companion introduces readers to the range, significance and complexity of women's writing across multiple genres in Britain between 1660 and 1789. Divided into two parts, the Companion first discusses women's participation in print culture, featuring essays on topics such as women and popular culture, women as professional writers, women as readers and writers, and place and publication. Additionally, part one explores the ways women writers crossed generic boundaries. The second part contains chapters on many of the key genres in which women wrote including poetry, drama, fiction (early and later), history, the ballad, periodicals, and travel writing. The Companion also provides an introduction surveying the state of the field, an integrated chronology, and a guide to further reading.

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Ingrassia

2015

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789

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Mrs. Brown's "Lass of Roch Royal" and the Golden Age of Scottish Balladry

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A woman's tradition? Quantifying gender difference in the Child ballads

A woman's tradition? Quantifying gender difference in the Child ballads

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789

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