Mabel Peacock
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Mabel Peacock | |
|---|---|
 Mabel Peacock, from an 1873 photograph in the collection of the North Lincolnshire Museum | |
| Born | 9 May 1856 Brigg, Lincolnshire, U.K. |
| Died | 17 July 1920 (age 64) Kirton in Lindsey, U.K. |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, folklorist |
| Father | Edward Peacock |
| Relatives | Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock (brother) |
Mabel Geraldine Woodruffe Peacock (9 May 1856– 17 July 1920)[1] was an English folklorist and writer, best known for her books of folk stories and poems of Lincolnshire.
Peacock was one of the seven children born to antiquarian Edward Peacock and Lucy Peacock, of Bottesford Manor, Brigg, Lincolnshire, and later of Kirton in Lindsey.[2] Her brother Adrian was a noted ecologist.[3][4]
Publications
Peacock published several collections of folklore, mainly stories and poems collected in Lincolnshire.[5] Noting the publication of her 1897 book of folk tales, the Hull Daily Mail noted that "Miss Peacock's two previous books are well known in Lincolnshire for their pathos and humour."[6] Peacock also edited a reprint of John Bunyan's Holy War and Heavenly Footman (1892), with full introduction and notes, and she was a contributor to the journals Folk-Lore[7] and The Naturalist.[8][9]
- An Index of Royalists whose estates were confiscated during the Commonwealth (1879)
- Tales and Rhymes in the Lindsey Folk-speech (1886)[10]
- Tales fra Linkisheere (1889)[11]
- "Omens of Death" (1897, Folk-Lore)[12]
- Lincolnshire Tales: The Recollections of Eli Twigg (1897)[6]
- "The Calenig or Gift" (1902, Folk-Lore)[13]
- "St. Mark's Eve (April 24th)" (1903, Folk-Lore)[14]
- Lincolnshire Rhymes (1907)
- Lincolnshire County Folklore (1908, edited with Eliza Gutch)[15]
- "Amulets Used in Lincolnshire" (1908, Folk-Lore)[16]
- "Death-knock in the Wapentake of Corringham, Lincolnshire" (1908, Folk-Lore)[17]
- "Religious Dancing" (1910, Folk-Lore)[18]
