'The Marchioness of Mintlaw' aka 'A Kininmonth Lassie' : remembering the great Buchan song and rhyme collector Annie Shirer : who made 'the largest and most varied collection of folklore, songs, and stories ever collected in this or any other period by any young Scotswoman'
McVicar, Ewan2025
Books, Manuscripts
A booklet about the life and work of Annie Shirer (1873-1915). Shirer was a seamstress living at Loch Cottage, Kininmonth near Mintlaw. A doughty but little remembered champion of Doric language and tradition who collected several hundred rhymes and songs of the Mintlaw area. She gathered a remarkable treasury of Buchan songs, rhymes, riddles and sayings, anonymously as Gavin Greig's 'A Kininmonth Lassie' in the Buchan Observer, and lauded in her own name by the Rymour Club of Edinburgh.
Main title:
'The Marchioness of Mintlaw' aka 'A Kininmonth Lassie' : remembering the great Buchan song and rhyme collector Annie Shirer : who made 'the largest and most varied collection of folklore, songs, and stories ever collected in this or any other period by any young Scotswoman' / Ewan McVicar, with Pauline Cordiner and Marjorie Paterson.
Author:
McVicar, Ewan, authorCordiner, Pauline, researcherPaterson, Marjorie, researcherDoric Board, funding organisation
Imprint:
Cromarty : Gallus Productions, 2025.
Collation:
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 15 x 21 cm.
Notes:
Published with funding from the Doric Board.
Contents:
Credits - - Introduction - - About Annie - - Where Annie lived - - Annie and the Rymours - - Annie's letters to Alan Reid - - Some more of Annie's rhymes - - Countin oot rhymes - - Riddles - - Annie's Buchan sayings, shared by Jim Shirer - - Annie and Gavin Greig - - From Greig's Buchan Observer column - - A sampling of her song lyrics.
Local class:
SCOTF5 SHI920.1820.80941
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4287287