Stories from the English and Scottish Ballads

by Ruth Manning-Sanders, T. Ridley (Illustrator)

Prose versions of some of the finest English and Scottish popular ballads once sung by wandering minstrels.

149 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Ruth Manning-Sanders, youngest daughter of an English minister, describes her childhood as “extraordinarily happy. . . with kind and understanding parents and any amount of freedom.” She read omnivorously, and she and her two sisters wrote and acted their own plays. A Shakespeare scholar at Manchester University, she later married Cornish artist George Manning-Sanders. They began married life in a horse drawn caravan, and traveled to all parts of the British Isles.
Mrs. Manning-Sanders has collected folk and fairy stories from around the world and she published more than 90 books during her lifetime.