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Helen Creighton : Canada's First Lady of Folklore

1999

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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Authors

Clary Croft

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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CaOOCEL
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398/.092
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21
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
9781459318724 1551092891
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GR55.C74
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C76 1999eb
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CaNSHD
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1 electronic text (iv, 297 p.)
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00214551 (OCoLC)431552020 (CaOOCEL)411118
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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CaOONL

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