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 , pp. 88-105.
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William Tytler
Standard Name: Tytler, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Anna Gordon | 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. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | 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... |
| Reception | Anna Gordon | William Tytler
was followed by many more in his interest in AG
's ballads. His son Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee)
, Scott
, Jamieson
, Joseph Ritson
, M. G. Monk Lewis
, Robert Anderson |
| Textual Production | Anna Gordon | 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, pp. 210-25. 213 |
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