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SHROPSHIRE

DING 2013: “Born at Moreton Vicarage in Staffordshire, she moved to Edgmond, Shropshire at the age of four. She was the first woman ever to become President of the Folklore Society. She contributed more than seventy papers to it, many of them seminal in modern Folklore studies. Apart from her Handbook of Folklore (1914), she edited, adding  materials of her own, Georgina Jackson’s posthumous work on the folklore of the county. Unfortunately she “modified the dialect very considerably...because [she] doubted [her] ability to reproduce , with sufficient accuracy more than an occasional word or phrase in any dialect save the softened from ‘Staffordshire’, which [was] spoken around [her] old home” (Burne 1883: ix). Nevertheless Shropshire Folk-lore contains specimens from North-East, West and South Shropshire dialect.”

WORKS

1883. Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings. Edited by C. S. Burne from the Collections of Georgina F. Jackson.  Part I. London: Trübner. SC. EDD.

1885. Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings. Edited by C. S. Burne from the Collections of Georgina F. Jackson. Part II. London: Trübner. SC. EDD.

1886. Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings. Edited by C. S. Burne from the Collections of Georgina F. Jackson.  Part III. London: Trübner. SC. EDD.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HER LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Ashman, Gordon and Gillian Bennet. 2000. “Charlotte Sophia Burne: Shropshire Folklorist, First Woman President of the Folklore Society and First Woman Editor of Folklore. Part 1: A Life and Appreciation”. Folklore 111.1: 1-21.

Bennet, Gillian. 2001. “Charlotte Sophia Burne: Shropshire Folkorist, First Woman President of the Folklore Society, and First Woman Editor of Folklore. Part 2: Update and Preliminary Bibliography”. Folklore 112.1: 95-106.

Burne, John and Eileen Girdwood. 2001. Mustard Leaves, Medicine and a Parasol: The Letters of the Burne Sisters on their Travels 1858-1874. Kent: DWS Print Services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Sophia_Burne

http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095536934?rskey=QzlYwO&result=2&q=Burne,%20charlotte%20sophia

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Charlotte Sophia Burne

(1850-1923)