Francis Child

Later commentators have endorsed their praise. The pre-eminent collector Francis J. Child thought no ballads superior to AG 's; more recently, Ruth Perry called her work a magnificent repertoire, selected brilliantly and rendered fully, each...

Their visitors at Nice included the Chaucerian Francis Child , the American writer Mrs. John (Elizabeth) Farrar , and the political activist Richard Cobden .MCC continued to delight in new acquaintances until late...

From these appearances in print, AG 's songs took a key place in the Scottish ballad revival. They accounted for twenty-seven of the A texts in Francis James Child 's five volumes of English and...