The Ballad Partners

Street Literature and the Circulation of Songs

Edited by David Atkinson & Steve Roud.

ISBN: 978-1-9161424-0-4

Papers exploring the production, distribution and use of street literature, including broadside ballads, chapbooks and other cheap printed items. 

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Book Contents
  • Women and the Ballad Trade in Eighteenth-Century England; David Atkinson
  • Penurious Poets and Ballad-Mongers: Some Nineteenth-Century Ballad Singers in Cumberland and Westmorland; Sue Allan
  • ‘Speckled Cats’ and ‘Gravey Distillers’: Nineteenth-Century Evangelists and Converts in the Cashel Ballads; Catherine Ann Cullen
  • William Clift—Broadside Printer in Cirencester; Martin Graebe
  • The Long Singer’s Magazine; John Earl
  • Competing Narratives of Crime and Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Street Literature; Genevieve Adeline
  • The Greenland Whale Fishery: The Story and in and of a Song; Sarah Lloyd
  • ‘These Railroad Times’: How Far Can We Trust the Broadsides? Colin Bargery
  • Robert MacLeod: Fife Miner-Poet and Broadside-Maker; Margaret Bennett
  • The Forth Valley Songster; David Stenton
  • The Utilitarian Tunes of Early Modern Broadside Ballads; David Atkinson
  • The Master-piece of Love Songs: The Survival of a Restoration Broadside Ballad in the Repertoire of a Gypsy Family; Peter Shepheard