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.
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Amelia Opie
Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other...
AG's father's friend William Tytler of Woodhouselee, author of A Dissertation on the Scottish Musick, 1779, asked Anna provide him with written copies of her old songs.
Perry, Ruth. “Ballads”. The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1789, edited by Catherine Ingrassia, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 210-25.