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. |
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Page 83
... lived since war resumed the following year . Good people give attention To what I now relate , And I will shortly mention This Nation's happy state ! Fine harvest weather Did favour us last year , We've nothing now to fear . Let us ...
... lived since war resumed the following year . Good people give attention To what I now relate , And I will shortly mention This Nation's happy state ! Fine harvest weather Did favour us last year , We've nothing now to fear . Let us ...
Page 101
... lived parishioners . In 1821 there were an estimated 168 people in England who were 100 or older while the corresponding figure for Scotland was 102 , and thus a proportion considerably in Scotland's favour ; women in both cases ...
... lived parishioners . In 1821 there were an estimated 168 people in England who were 100 or older while the corresponding figure for Scotland was 102 , and thus a proportion considerably in Scotland's favour ; women in both cases ...
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Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850 Edward J. Cowan Michael Paterson. There lived a carl on Kelly - burn braes , Hey and the rue grows bonny wi ' thyme . And he had a wife was the plague of his days , And the thyme it is wither'd and ...
Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850 Edward J. Cowan Michael Paterson. There lived a carl on Kelly - burn braes , Hey and the rue grows bonny wi ' thyme . And he had a wife was the plague of his days , And the thyme it is wither'd and ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Chapmen | 41 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Copyright | |
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