Francis James Child
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Francis James Child was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston Professor
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Child, a keen gardener and devotee of antique roses, photographed (probably by Charles Eliot Norton) in his rose garden. Verses about "the rose and the briar" occur in many ballads.
George Lyman Kittredge
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George Lyman Kittredge was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also inv
Francis James Child
…task – apart from a planned general introduction and bibliography. A biographical introduction was prefixed to the work by his student and successor, George Lyman Kittredge. Child added to the Harvard University Library one of the largest folklore collections in existence. Kittredge, who succeeded him as Professor of English…
A 1906 portrait of Kittredge
The first page of a 1946 edition of Kittredge's Sixteen Plays of Shakespeare