Ruth Perry’s newest book, The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland, serves as an indispensable reference for both seasoned scholars and newcomers to ballad studies.” Lucie Duggan, the book reviewer for this “English Studies” at Routledge Taylor & Francis continues on to connect Perry’s rigorous historical research in music with Scottish cultural memory: “At the same time, it has appeal beyond the specialist audience, offering general readers a vivid and fascinating account of Scottish ballad tradition, the intellectual and social life of eighteenth-century Scotland, and the central role of women as custodians of cultural memory.” For more than a century, “English Studies” at Routledge Taylor & Francis Group has been one of the defining publications in the field of ‘English’. Unique in the range and quality of its coverage, it attracts contributions from leading scholars worldwide on the language, literature and culture of the English-speaking world from the Early Medieval period to the present day.
Read the Book Review of Ruth Perry’s The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland here…