Mabel Peacock

Mabel Peacock (b.1856,d.1920) was an English folklorist.

Mabel Geraldine W Peacock was the daughter of Lucy and Edward Peacock F.S.A. of Bottesford Manor, Brigg, Lincolnshire, and later of Kirton-in-Lindsey. She made collections of folklore in this region and published them in journals and her books.^[1]

Her works include,

• An Index of Royalists whose estates were confiscated during the Commonwealth. 1879
• Tales and Rhymes in the Lindsey Folk-speech, 1886, with Max Peacock (anonymously)
• Tales fra Linkishire, 1889. She also edited a reprint of Bunyan’s Holy War and Heavenly Footman, 1892, with full introduction and notes; Lincolnshire Tales, 1897; Lincolnshire Rhymes, 1907.
• Lincolnshire County Folklore, 1908, with Mrs. Gutch.
• many contributions to Folk-Lore and a collection of notes and manuscript.

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