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THE OLD SONGS OF SKYE : Frances Tolmie and her Circle ETHEL BASSIN Scotland 1977
THE OLD SONGS OF SKYE : Frances Tolmie and her Circle ETHEL BASSIN Scotland 1977
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THE OLD SONGS OF SKYE
Frances Tolmie and her Circle
By Ethel Bassin and Edited by Derek Bowman
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977. First Edition. Hardback book with dust jacket. 227 pages. Illustrated.
CONDITION
A very good clean copy throughout. The dust jacket is price-clipped but otherwise good. Boards and spine good. Pages clean throughout. No writing or names. Overall a good first edition.
Frances Tolmie (13 October 1840 – 31 December 1926) was a Scottish folklorist. She was born and died on the Isle of Skye. She collected Gaelic songs which were published in 1911.
Tolmie was born on a farm on Duirinish, at Uiginish House,[1] on the Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1840. Her mother was Margaret MacAskill and was born on the Isle of Eigg. Her father was John Tolmie whose family had been associated with the MacLeod clan at the nearby town of Dunvegan. Her father died when Frances was four years old and the family was then looked after by her uncle Hugh Macaskill of Talisker and his wife, where she saw a large circle of literary and cultivated friends from across the country. By 1854, she and her family moved to Strontian where her brother was to be the minister. Over the next two years she extended her education to music and she seems to have taught herself the language of Gaelic.
In 1873 she was, for two terms, one of the first students at Newnham College in Cambridge. This was one of the first colleges for women. She was remembered for being an exceptionally tall highlander, red haired and she would entertain her fellow students by telling their fortunes by gazing at a mixture of egg white and water THE OLD SONGS OF SKYE
Frances Tolmie and her Circle
By Ethel Bassin - Edited by Derek Bowman
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977. First Edition. Hardback book with dust jacket. 227 pages. Illustrated.
Frances Tolmie and her Circle
By Ethel Bassin and Edited by Derek Bowman
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977. First Edition. Hardback book with dust jacket. 227 pages. Illustrated.
CONDITION
A very good clean copy throughout. The dust jacket is price-clipped but otherwise good. Boards and spine good. Pages clean throughout. No writing or names. Overall a good first edition.
Frances Tolmie (13 October 1840 – 31 December 1926) was a Scottish folklorist. She was born and died on the Isle of Skye. She collected Gaelic songs which were published in 1911.
Tolmie was born on a farm on Duirinish, at Uiginish House,[1] on the Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1840. Her mother was Margaret MacAskill and was born on the Isle of Eigg. Her father was John Tolmie whose family had been associated with the MacLeod clan at the nearby town of Dunvegan. Her father died when Frances was four years old and the family was then looked after by her uncle Hugh Macaskill of Talisker and his wife, where she saw a large circle of literary and cultivated friends from across the country. By 1854, she and her family moved to Strontian where her brother was to be the minister. Over the next two years she extended her education to music and she seems to have taught herself the language of Gaelic.
In 1873 she was, for two terms, one of the first students at Newnham College in Cambridge. This was one of the first colleges for women. She was remembered for being an exceptionally tall highlander, red haired and she would entertain her fellow students by telling their fortunes by gazing at a mixture of egg white and water THE OLD SONGS OF SKYE
Frances Tolmie and her Circle
By Ethel Bassin - Edited by Derek Bowman
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977. First Edition. Hardback book with dust jacket. 227 pages. Illustrated.
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