| FA-52803-06 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Ruth Perry | A Biography of Anna Gordon Brown: 18th-Century Traditional Ballad Singer | 9/1/2006 - 6/30/2007 | $40,000.00 | Ruth | | Perry | | | | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge | MA | 02139-4307 | USA | 2005 | British Literature | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
My project is a biography of Anna Gordon Brown, an eighteenth-century Scotswoman whose ballads formed the aesthetic core of Francis James Child’s magisterial The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1886-1898). Who she was and how she became the conduit for our common literary and musical heritage—our “best” ballads—is the story of a woman’s life during the Scottish enlightenment and the golden age of collecting folk songs at the end of the eighteenth century. |