Busk, Rachel (1831-1907)

Rachel Harriette Busk (1831-1907), folkloriste britannique, demeure connue grâce à son ouvrage The Folk-Lore of Rome, de 1874, l’une des contributions les plus significatives, au 19^e siècle, en matière de folklore urbain, et l’un des rares recueils prêtant sérieusement attention aux circonstances du moment ethnographique où les contes et légendes étaient racontés. Busk est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur le folklore de pays européens, inspirés de ses voyages ; mais contrairement à The Folk-Lore of Rome, ils n’étaient que des compilations de matériaux récoltés et publiés par d’autres.

“‘Imagine I am the Creatura’: Biography of Rachel Busk, a British Folklorist in Europe”

David Hopkin, 2018

Rachel Busk is best known today for The Folk-Lore of Rome (1874), one of the most important contributions to urban folklore made in the nineteenth century and one of few studies from that period that paid attention to the contexts in which tales and legends were told. Busk wrote several other (…)

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