Iona Opie (1923–2017)
Författare till My Very First Mother Goose
Om författaren
Iona Margaret Opie was born on October 13, 1923. During World War II, she made meteorological maps in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. She married Peter Opie in 1943. Together they collected children's rhymes, riddles, and street culture. Their books included I Saw Esau, The Oxford Dictionary of visa mer Nursery Rhymes, The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, Children's Games in Street and Playground, and The Classic Fairy Tales. After her husband's death in 1982, she continued the work alone. Her books included The People in the Playground, Tail Feathers from Mother Goose, Here Comes Mother Goose, A Dictionary of Superstitions, and Children's Games with Things. Her son Robert collaborated with her on The Treasures of Childhood. She was made CBE in 1999. She died on October 23, 2017 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Särskiljningsinformation:
(eng) Several works by the husband-and-wife team of Iona and Peter Opie are listed additionally and/or separately on LT under their individual names.
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Opie, Iona Margaret Balfour
- Födelsedag
- 1923-10-13
- Avled
- 2017-10-23
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Yrken
- folklorist
- Relationer
- Opie, Peter (husband)
Opie, Robert (son)
Opie, James (son) - Organisationer
- WAAF
- Priser och utmärkelser
- May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1991)
Fellow of the British Academy
Commander of the Order of the British Empire - Särskiljningsnotis
- Several works by the husband-and-wife team of Iona and Peter Opie are listed additionally and/or separately on LT under their individual names.
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The Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes / edited by… av Iona Opie
The history notes and the illustrations make this a great reference work,
-see the review of Opie's The Classic Fairy Tales
I appreciate the scholarship Opie employs to present these stories as they were collected long before all the modern variations. They were enjoyable even though not the genera I usually read.
A collection of children's rhymes, first collected in England in 1946, including things like taunts and insults, riddles, skipping rhymes, and mocking verses about schoolwork. Most of them probably aren't exactly the sort of thing you'd find in Mother Goose.
The rhymes themselves are mildly interesting, sometimes vaguely amusing, and often (from the perspective of a 21st century American) entertainingly quaint-feeling in their language. There are a few brief notes on a number of them in the back -- something I wish I'd realized while I was reading through them -- but not enough to make this feel more like a work of scholarship than a collection of amusements.
It would all be diverting for a few minutes and then pretty quickly forgettable, I think, except that this edition, from 1992, also includes some delightfully offbeat (indeed, sometimes charmingly grotesque) illustrations by Maurice Sendak.… (mer)
The rhymes themselves are mildly interesting, sometimes vaguely amusing, and often (from the perspective of a 21st century American) entertainingly quaint-feeling in their language. There are a few brief notes on a number of them in the back -- something I wish I'd realized while I was reading through them -- but not enough to make this feel more like a work of scholarship than a collection of amusements.
It would all be diverting for a few minutes and then pretty quickly forgettable, I think, except that this edition, from 1992, also includes some delightfully offbeat (indeed, sometimes charmingly grotesque) illustrations by Maurice Sendak.… (mer)
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- 42
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- 6,192
- Popularitet
- #3,968
- Betyg
- 4.1
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