Hi Georgina

I've been keen to contact you for such a long time, but until now haven't known how to.

I wasn't denigrating your standpoint - merely pointing out that all critical studies necessarily involve making judgements and that someone who's looking for some straightforward facts has to follow their own opinion as regards these judgements.

As I remember, you pointed out that, no matter how much the "second revival" was supposed to differ from the first, ultimately the prescriptions laid down by Cecil Sharp (or at the very least, his TENDENCY to prescribe) shaped the thinking of all the leading revivalists who came after - and that Lloyd was no exception. All of this affected women's role in folk music (and I do see feminism as a very important strand in your book), it allowed the mediation and objectification of what was once a functional part of communities, and it subtly shaped our imagined Englishness. Please correct me if I've got this wrong, and forgive the fact that I've rashly tried to sum up a full-size book in a sentence. All I wanted to emphasize in this thread was that yours is a study of revival and mediation and not a straightforward account of Lloyd's life, so sorry if you took this as implied criticism!

Please would you PM me with contact details if you'd like to continue this discussion because I'm in the middle of a related research project and would very much appreciate your advice?

Cheers
Jude