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NURSERY rhymes and FOLK songs

In 1877, Marianne Harriet Mason published Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs, a collection of songs obtained orally from her family and from people around her. She was in contact with several of the early folk song collectors and was a friend of both Sabine Baring-Gould and Lucy Broadwood. As well as being the first woman to collect and publish traditional songs, she was a pioneer in many other ways. This article looks at her life, her song collection, and her part in the Victorian folk song revival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

FOLK songs, FRIENDSHIP, HYMN writers, and HISTORY

The name of Cecil Sharp and his position as a collector of and advocate for folk song is well known to a large section of the public, and the centenary of his first folk song collecting was marked by a number of events and publications in August 2003. That of Sabine Baring-Gould is, generally, less familiar, at least as a collector of folk songs, although many people might know of him as the author of the hymn 'Onward, Christian Soldiers' or through his other work as novelist, antiquarian, hagiographer, and travel writer. Sharp was twenty-five years younger than Baring-Gould and began his song collecting fifteen years after Baring-Gould had started the main phase of his own work. Sharp initially sought out Baring-Gould for advice, and this led to a close collaborative relationship between 1904 and 1907. The two men met a number of times and, it is clear, had a respect for one another which was maintained, through visits and through correspondence, over several further years. Working together, they established many of the working practices for the song collectors who followed them, and had a profound influence on folk song collecting in England during the first half of the twentieth century. Their collaboration has not previously been studied in any detail, and this article seeks to explore and explain their relationship, making use of letters and papers from their manuscripts as well as other published and unpublished sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CLERGY and FOLK songs

A biography of Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, theologian, hagiographer and novelist, is presented. He was born on January 28, 1834 at Exeter in the West Country and studied at King's College in London. He then went up to Cambridge earning the degree of Bachelor of Arts then Master of Arts from Clare College. He had married Grace Taylor, a mill girl and had fifteen children. His principal achievement was the collection of folk songs that he made with the help of the ordinary people.