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...
MCC
continued to delight in new acquaintances until late...
Literary responses
Anna Gordon
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...