Folklore: Women in Folklife

04 Apr 05 - 04:40 PM (#1451988)
Subject: Folklore: Women in Folklife
From: George Seto - [e-mail]

I just found an amazing series of pages at the University of Maine.

Women in Folklife

The university has long had a reputation for Folklore studies. People like Sandy Ives worked there. They've recently put up pages about the Women who worked in the Collecting of Folklore, Music, etc. in the Northeastern US and Canada during the early part of the 20th century.

This group includes two Canadians, Louise Manny, and Helen Creigton. The Americans listed are Fanny Hardy Eckstrom, Joanna Colcord, and Helen Flanders. The first page tells about the work, but the most interesting are the five pages which follow covering the biographies of these awesome women, who undertook a task which has been highly unremarked upon.

Most of us don't know these women. We should!

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04 Apr 05 - 04:43 PM (#1451990)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Women in Folklife
From: George Seto - [e-mail]

Strange. Let's try again

Women IN Folklife

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04 Apr 05 - 05:04 PM (#1452006)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Women in Folklife
From: Dave Ruch

There are many more too...Anne Warner (regional U.S.), Edith Fowke (Canada), Mary Eddy (Ohio), Mary Wheeler (Ohio/Miss River), Emily Gardner (NY & Michigan), Ellen Stekert (U.S.)....

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04 Apr 05 - 05:07 PM (#1452008)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Women in Folklife
From: Dave Ruch

Oops...can't forget Marjorie Lansing Porter in the Adirondack/Lake Champlain region of the northeastern US

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04 Apr 05 - 06:07 PM (#1452058)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Women in Folklife
From: GUEST,Georgina Boyes

You might also like to look out for 'Women & Tradition: A Neglected Group of Folklorists'. Ed. Carmen Blacker & Hilda Ellis DAvidson: Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2000 which has articles on -

Anne MacVicar Grant, Charlotte Burne, Augusta Gregory, Alice Gomme, Mary Alicia Owen, Margaret Murray, Dora Yates, Violet Alford, Zora Neale Hurston, Christina Hole, Katharine Briggs, Ruth Tongue, Mona Douglas, Enid Porter, Theo Brown, Charlotte Guest, Marie Trevelyan & Mary Williams.

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04 Apr 05 - 06:12 PM (#1452066)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Women in Folklife
From: katlaughing

Wonderful!!! Thank you for the info and link!

kat

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05 Apr 05 - 03:05 PM (#1452892)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Women in Folklife
From: George Seto - [e-mail]

Isn't it wonderful, how one little bit, brings out so much more to look at and assimilate?

Thanks everyone for the additional information.

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