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...
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
147-8
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...