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Overall, The Ballad World of Anna Gordon is a remarkable achievement: it will serve as an indispensable reference for both seasoned scholars and newcomers to ballad studies. At the same time, it has appeal beyond the specialist audience, offering general readers a vivid and fascinating account of Scottish ballad tradition, the intellectual and social life of eighteenth-century Scotland, and the central role of women as custodians of cultural memory. Perry's work is both a model of meticulous scholarship and a richly engaging narrative, bringing the life and songs of this important figure to a broad readership. * Lucie Duggan, English Studies * Ruth Perry's exploration of Anna Gordon's ballads reveals a tapestry of historical insight and cultural resistance. * Rustle News *

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Ruth Perry is past President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and an internationally acclaimed authority on eighteenth-century British literature and culture. She has written on canonical figures such as Pope, Sterne, Richardson, Austen, Hawthorne as well as contemporary women writers such as Grace Paley and Mary Gordon. She is the Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at MIT and the founding director of Women Studies at MIT as well as the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies in Boston. In 2022, the Eighteenth-Century Society for Scottish Studies honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Her scholarship has been recognized by fellowships from the Bunting Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Edinburgh.

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