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Thread #79505   Message #1470131
Posted By: masato sakurai
25-Apr-05 - 09:40 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Fairy Annie's Wedding
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fairy Annie's Wedding
Susan Stewart wrote in her article "The Ballad in Wuthering Heights" (Representations 86, Spring 2004, University of California Press, p. 191):
The third, remaining ballad mentioned by name ["Fairy Annie's Wedding"] does not seem to exist in any known text. [...] The title of Nelly's ballad does in fact evoke two specific allusions: one is to the Queen of the Fairies, in Ireland Ana or Anne, and the other is to the ballad "Fair Annie," which does recount a wedding.