I shall try to keep a log of my work, my feelings about the collection, and also record Helen's comments about the collection as we go through it together." I would be arranging and identifying the collection of one of the world's leading pioneers in the field of folklore. [...] They romanticized "the folk" and looked to them as the repre- sentatives of a naive and more holistic culture.9 Others saw the collection and study of folklore as a hobby for the upper classes. [...] In 1942 the Indiana Daily Student called Helen a "feminine song-sleuth,"12 and in 1958 the Star Weekly labelled Helen's friend and colleague, Edith Fowke, as "Canada's 'Come-All-Ye' Detective."13 Frequently people writing about the kind of work Helen and her contemporaries were doing played up the quaint and unusual, sometimes to an absurd extreme. [...] Born at the end of the nineteenth century, on 5 September 1899, to her family she was to be Nellie or Helen, and she was part of one of the oldest and most distin- guished families in Nova Scotia. [...] Her earliest extant letter, written in February of 1905 on the reverse side of her father's business letterhead, shows a youthful and bold printing style.13 A few years later she could boast of having her work published in the children's page of The Montreal Star, for which she was awarded prizes of a gunmetal watch and a fountain pen.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 4
- Acknowledgements 5
- Introduction 8
- Chapter One 16
- Chapter Two 29
- Chapter Three 40
- Chapter Four 49
- Chapter Five 58
- Chapter Six 69
- Chapter Seven 80
- Chapter Eight 89
- Chapter Nine 99
- Chapter Ten 109
- Chapter Eleven 119
- Chapter Twelve 132
- Chapter Thirteen 144
- Chapter Fourteen 150
- Chapter Fifteen 168
- Chapter Sixteen 176
- Chapter Seventeen 188
- Chapter Eighteen 197
- Chapter Nineteen 206
- Chapter Twenty 218
- Chapter Twenty-One 231
- Endnotes 251
- Bibliography 286
- Index 296
- A 296
- B 296
- C 297
- D 298
- E 298
- F 298
- G 299
- H 299
- I 300
- J 300
- K 300
- L 300
- M 301
- N 301
- O 302
- P 302
- Q 302
- R 302
- S 303
- T 303
- U 304
- V 304
- W 304
- Y 304
- Z 304