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3 unusual facts about Richard Dorson


Charlotte Sophia Burne

A vague and inaccurate portrait of her life and works was given in references to her in Richard Dorson's history of the British folklorists (1968); J. C. Burne, a great nephew, drew on letters and recollections of her family for a "tactful biography" published in 1975.

Dorson

Richard Dorson (1916–1981), American folklorist, writer and academic

The Folklore Society

Some prominent members were identified as the "great team" in Richard Dorson's now long outdated 1967 history of British folklore, late-Victorian leaders of the surge of intellectual interest in the field, these were Andrew Lang, Edwin Sidney Hartland, A. Nutt, William Alexander Clouston, Edward Clodd and Gomme.



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