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

Ruth Perry

Culture, humanities & social science

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

By Ruth Perry, Professor Emeritus and Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of the Humanities

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.

From Summer 2025 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.