Maud Karpeles Oxford DNB Life Of The Day

Subject: Maud Karpeles Oxford DNB Life Of The Day
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 07:54 AM

Maud Karpeles is today's subject of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's "Life Of The Day" e-newsletter. Site link here, though it doesn't last forever.

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.html

If it disappears, you can probably find it by clicking around from their home page, or else PM me for the text.

http://www.oxforddnb.com

Subject: RE: Maud Karpeles Oxford DNB Life Of The Day
From: GUEST,Edthefolkie
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 10:45 AM

That's wonderful, thanks Bonnie.

What WOULD Miss Karpeles have thought of electric morris (apart from the obvious of it being loud and fast)? She lived long enough to hear Morris On, after all!

Subject: RE: Maud Karpeles Oxford DNB Life Of The Day
From: The Mole Catcher's Apprentice (inactive)
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 11:54 AM

"What WOULD Miss Karpeles have thought of electric morris (apart from the obvious of it being loud and fast)? She lived long enough to hear Morris On, after all!"

It's tempting to say she would have loved it, but who knows..and one wonders what she would have thought of Ashley Hutchings' portrayal od Cecil Sharp

Charlotte (an old hanky waver)

Subject: RE: Maud Karpeles Oxford DNB Life Of The Day
From: Snuffy
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 01:00 PM

Old hankies aren't compulsory, just because it's a tradition. Our side got two new sets each this year, and we're mostly over 60!

Subject: RE: Maud Karpeles Oxford DNB Life Of The Day
From: Folkiedave
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 01:06 PM

And there is a tiny error - Sharp published the first "Folk Songs from the Appalachians" in 1917 - in fact there were two trips there - the 1932 edition is a vastly expanded and corrected copy of that edition.

Dave (pedantic as ever - but loved correcting Oxford University).

Subject: RE: Maud Karpeles Oxford DNB Life Of The Day
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 01:40 PM

Nice one, Dave! I'm impressed...

Seriously, you ought to email and tell them - they're bound to want to have their information accurate.