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 28
... Young Women was no longer selling well , he renamed it Grannie M'Nab's Lecture on the Women . His first venture was a re - issue of The Art of Courtship , also known as Willie Lawson's Courtship of Bess Gibb , ' a peck of ill - put ...
... Young Women was no longer selling well , he renamed it Grannie M'Nab's Lecture on the Women . His first venture was a re - issue of The Art of Courtship , also known as Willie Lawson's Courtship of Bess Gibb , ' a peck of ill - put ...
Page 205
Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850 Edward J. Cowan Michael Paterson. A Young Kintry Laird's Courtship Young , naïve , materialistic country laird woos Jenny by advertising his wealth . The sudden ending is ambiguous . ' Rant ' can ...
Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850 Edward J. Cowan Michael Paterson. A Young Kintry Laird's Courtship Young , naïve , materialistic country laird woos Jenny by advertising his wealth . The sudden ending is ambiguous . ' Rant ' can ...
Page 388
... young Logie free . She is up to the King's chamber gone , and among his nobles so free ; Hold away , hold away , says our gracious King , no more of your pardons for young Logie . Had you but ask'd me for houses and land , I would have ...
... young Logie free . She is up to the King's chamber gone , and among his nobles so free ; Hold away , hold away , says our gracious King , no more of your pardons for young Logie . Had you but ask'd me for houses and land , I would have ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
The Chapmen | 41 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Copyright | |
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