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Thread #103538   Message #2111595
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
26-Jul-07 - 05:32 AM
Thread Name: Real story of Vin Garbutt & Cambridge
Subject: RE: Real story of Vin Garbutt & Cambridge
Though clearly entirely unacquainted with the Child Ballads, #68 in particular.
Nor with a song collected by Cecil Sharp in Hambridge in 1904 about the harsh fate which awaited any woman who stepped outside the socially accepted moral code of the day.
We ought by now to have ditched the attitude that women should be so condemned, and should instead applaud and support them for being socially responsible.