The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland

By Ruth Perry (Oxford University Press, 2025). In "The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland," Ruth Perry details what we know about the ways folk ballads were created and transmitted; how Anna Gordon came to know so many; the social and political climate in which they existed; and why these songs meant so much in Scotland and elsewhere in the Atlantic world.