Louise Pound (1872–1958)
Author of Nebraska Folklore
Works by Louise Pound
Poetic origins and the ballad 4 copies
Associated Works
The American thesaurus of slang; a complete reference book of colloquial speech (1960) — Foreword, some editions — 47 copies, 1 review
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1872-06-30
- Date of death
- 1958-06-27
- Gender
- female
- Education
- University of Nebraska (BA|1892)
University of Nebraska (MA|1895)
University of Chicago
University of Heidelberg - Occupations
- professor
folklorist
linguist - Organizations
- American Folklore Society
Modern Language Association (president)
American Speech (co-founder)
Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame - Awards and honors
- First woman president of the Modern Language Association
Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame - Relationships
- Pound, Roscoe (brother)
Cather, Willa (friend) - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- Places of residence
- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Heidelberg, Germany - Associated Place (for map)
- USA
Members
Reviews
An extremely interesting collection. Many of the ballads are standard, but it includes some I rarely see which are interesting reflections of traditional prejudices such as The Romish Lady (A Protestant martyr, presumably 16th century), and The Jew Lady (a variant on the story in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale) . Alaso quite a few cowboty and outlaw songs, including at least one Australian one. (Jack Donahoo).
Statistics
- Works
- 8
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 76
- Popularity
- #233,521
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 8