William Tytler
, the first collector of AG
's ballads, was a friend of her father, while his son Alexander Fraser Tytler
, who collected them too, was a childhood friend of her own.
Perry, Ruth. “The Printed Record of An Oral Tradition”. Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Rosamaria Loretelli and Frank O’Gorman, Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 1 May 2010, pp. 88-105.
These were songs from North-East Scotland, probably dating from about a century before. The vernacular song tradition . . . contained distinct male and female strands. Women sang in drawing-rooms and men at meetings of...