Lyrical Lady, you're in good company with Alan!

As to the book at hand, I reviewed the reissue ("Singing Our History")in a long article in Canadian Folklore Canadien (Vol 6, Nos. 1-2, 1984, pp. 141-7) and I was not able to be nice. The original book (Canada's Story in Song) had its own problems, notably of a very outdated (even then) notion of "history", and said that I thought Edith's lack of attention to what had been added to the folk song corpus in the previous 24 years was nothing short of scandalous.