Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850John Donald, 2007 - 438 pages Though they represent a great unmined treasure-trove of history, literature and popular culture, chapbooks have been incomprehensibly and disgracefully ignored. This title presents a study of this form of publication. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 61
Page 39
... century . Songs from the chapbooks are now sung by the likes of Adam McNaughtan in the early twenty - first century , the echo of all those Scottish voices which for generations resounded in the home , at work , at school , at weddings ...
... century . Songs from the chapbooks are now sung by the likes of Adam McNaughtan in the early twenty - first century , the echo of all those Scottish voices which for generations resounded in the home , at work , at school , at weddings ...
Page 86
... century , causing much famine , distress and death . The weather improved somewhat in the early eighteenth century , but from 1740 there was a number of severe winters , with colder temperatures in general persisting into the early ...
... century , causing much famine , distress and death . The weather improved somewhat in the early eighteenth century , but from 1740 there was a number of severe winters , with colder temperatures in general persisting into the early ...
Page 324
... centuries . Of the anonymous poems for which no precise date of composition can be allocated , all can be found in various manuscripts of orally collected songs from the eighteenth century , such as the McLagan and Eigg collections ...
... centuries . Of the anonymous poems for which no precise date of composition can be allocated , all can be found in various manuscripts of orally collected songs from the eighteenth century , such as the McLagan and Eigg collections ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
16 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Allan Allan Ramsay appear auld baith ballads bawbee bonny booksellers boys Burns century chap chapbooks chapman chapmen cries de'il door drink Dumfries e'er East Lothian Edinburgh English fair Falkirk father fouk frae friends Gaelic gang Glasgow goodman goodwife Graham Greenock Greig-Duncan Haggart hame hand head heart Highland Hogmanay Inveraray Irish Jack James John King kirk Laird lass lassie Leith live Logie Maggy mair maun merry mind morning ne'er Neil Dewar never night NOBLEMAN o'er Paisley Peter M'Craw poem poor popular printed printer published Ramsay Robert Burns Robert Fergusson Robert Gilfillan Robertson Rothbury Saltmarket Scotland Scots Magazine Scottish sergeant soldiers song sowens Stirling sweet tell thee There's took town Wallace weather weel wife wind wives woman wonderful ye're young