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Francis James Child

Editor, Compiler

(1825 - 1896)

Francis James Child was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. He was a professor at Harvard University, where he produced influential editions of English poetry.



Bibliography

Some British Ballads (1919)

A collection of ballads, many taken from Child’s The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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