Literature and folklore -- England
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Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (London: Griffith and Farran, ca. 1883), by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (London: Griffith and Farran, ca. 1883), by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
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Filed under: Literature and folklore- The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction (London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,1880), by Edward Yardley
- The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2002), ed. by Adam Fox and D. R. Woolf (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Make We Merry More and Less: An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Douglas Gray and Jane Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Chiji Akoma (PDF at Ohio State)
- Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
- Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
- The Denham Tracts: A Collection of Folklore, Reprinted From the Original Tracts and Pamphlets Printed by Denham Between 1846 and 1859 (2 volumes (Publications of the Folk-Lore Society v29 and v35); 1892-1895), by Michael Aislabie Denham, ed. by James Hardy
- Anecdotes and Traditions, Illustrative of Early English History and Literature (London: Printed for the Camden Society by J. B. Nichols and son, 1839), ed. by William John Thoms, contrib. by Nicholas L'Estrange, John Aubrey, and John Collet (page images at HathiTrust)
- English Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (Gutenberg text)
- The Famous Exploits of Robin Hood, Little John and His Merry Men All (London: J. Catnach, ca. 1821) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- More English Fairy Tales (1894), by Joseph Jacobs, illust. by John D. Batten (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Stories of King Arthur (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), by A. L. Haydon, illust. by Arthur Rackham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Popular Romances of the West of England, ed. by Robert Hunt (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall (first series (presented online as "vol. 1"), originally published 1870), by William Bottrell (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall (second series; Penzance: Printed for the author by Beare and Son, 1873), by William Bottrell, illust. by Joseph Blight
- Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c.; With an Appendix Containing a Rare Tract on the Lancashire Witches (London: G. Routledge and Sons; Manchester: L. C. Gent, 1873), by John Harland and Thomas Turner Wilkinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A History of Leagram: The Park and the Manor (v72 of new series, Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected With the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester; Manchester, UK: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1913), by John Weld, contrib. by J. Brownbill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Goblin Tales of Lancashire (London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., n.d.), by James Bowker, illust. by Charles Gliddon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Magic in Modern London (Croydon: Printed at the "Advertiser" offices, 1925), by Edward Lovett (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tales of Northumbria (London: Methuen and Co., 1899), by Howard Pease
- Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies: Glimpses of Elfin Haunts and Antics, by William Crossing (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Goblin Tales of Lancashire (London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., n.d.), by James Bowker, illust. by Charles Gliddon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Northumbrian Minstrelsy: A Collection of the Ballads, Melodies, and Small-Pipe Tunes of Northumbria (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Society of Antiquaries, 1882), ed. by J. Collingwood Bruce and John Stokoe
- Medieval Graffiti, Especially in The Eastern Counties (reprinted from Cambridge Antiquarian Society's Publications; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1915), by G. G. Coulton
- The Merry-Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany (4 parts reprinted with new introductions in 2 volumes, 1982-1983), ed. by Hurlothrumbo, contrib. by George Robert Guffey and Maximillian E. Novak
- Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory From Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-Names, and Faerie Superstitions (London: Chapman and Hall, 1919), by Harold Bayley
- English Villages (London: Methuen and Co., 1901), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
- Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain (6 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822), by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons
- Volume I (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamsire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Cambridgeshire and Cheshire): multiple formats at Google
- Volume III (Cornwall): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Cumberland): multiple formats at Google
- Volume V (Derbyshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Devonshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
- The Old Road (London: Constable and Company, 1911), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde
- The Church Bells of Cambridgeshire: A Chronicle of The Principal Companalogical Events That Have Occurred Within the County; To Which Is Appended a List of the Inscriptions on the Bells (Lowestoft, UK: S. Tymms, 1869), by John James Raven
- Early Roman Occupation at Cirencester (Cirencester, England: Cirencester Excavation Committee, Corinium Museum, 1982), by J. S. Wacher and Alan McWhirr (PDF at Cotswold Archaeology)
- The Stane Street: A Monograph, by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts From the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, From 1835 to 1871 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1882), by Caroline Fox, ed. by Horace N. Pym
- Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century, by James Richard Joy (Gutenberg text)
- Chapters From Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1921), by Juliet M. Soskice (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The History of the "Old Meeting House", St. Neots, 1691-1890; Together With a Short Survey of the Religious Life of England at the Beginning of This Century (St. Neots: Printed by P. C. Tomson, 1890), by Reginald Denness Cooper
- Histoire de la Civilisation en Angleterre (5 volumes, in French; Paris: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et cie., 1865), by Henry Thomas Buckle, trans. by A. Baillot (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of Civilization in England (2 volumes; from the second London edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by Henry Thomas Buckle
- Among English Inns: The Story of a Pilgrimage to Characteristic Spots of Rural England, by Josephine Tozier (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- Ein Studienaufenthalt in England (with additional material, in German; Lübeck: Schmidt, 1902), by Adolf Reusch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- First Impressions of England and its People (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 1889), by Hugh Miller (HTML in the UK)
- Impressions of England: or, Sketches of English Scenery and Society (second edition; New York: Dana and Co., 1856), by A. Cleveland Coxe
- Letters From England, 1846-1849, by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain (6 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822), by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons
- Volume I (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamsire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Cambridgeshire and Cheshire): multiple formats at Google
- Volume III (Cornwall): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Cumberland): multiple formats at Google
- Volume V (Derbyshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Devonshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway (London: Chapman and Hall, 1901), by Charles G. Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Our Hundred Days in Europe, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Passages from the English Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (HTML at ibiblio.org)
- Rural Rides (London: A. Cobbett, 1853), by William Cobbett, ed. by James Paul Cobbett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Shakespeare's England (revised illustrated edition; New York and London: Macmillan, 1898), by William Winter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Tour in England and Scotland, in 1785 (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788), by William Thomson
- Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829, With Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters, in a Series of Letters (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833), by Hermann Pückler-Muskau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in England (based on the London Grant Richards edition of 1900), by Richard Le Gallienne, illust. by Herbert Railton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Travels in England in 1782, by Karl Philipp Moritz (Gutenberg text)
- Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium: Being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe With His North American Indian Collection (1852), by George Catlin
- Afoot in England, by W. H. Hudson (Gutenberg text)
- Cathedral Days: A Tour in Southern England (Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1899), by Anna Bowman Dodd, illust. by E. Eldon Deane (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Coaching Days and Coaching Ways (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893), by W. Outram Tristram, illust. by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Field and Hedgerow, Being the Last Essays of William Jefferies, Collected By His Widow, by Richard Jefferies, ed. by Mrs. J. Baden (Gutenberg text)
- The Heart of the Country: A Survey of a Modern Land (London: A. Rivers, 1906), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hills and the Sea, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
- Old English Towns (combined edition of earlier 2 volumes; London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1909), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Old English Towns (New York: F. A. Stokes, ca. 1912), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang
- The Old Road (London: Constable and Company, 1911), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde
- Our Little English Cousin (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, c1908), by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, by Washington Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
- The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (2 volume "Van Tassel" edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1895), by Washington Irving, illust. by Allan F. Barraud, Frederick S. Church, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Arthur Rackham, and Julian Rix (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England (new edition, revised; Columbus, OH: J. H. Riley and Co., 1859), by Frederick Law Olmsted
- The Letters of Robert Mackay to His Wife, Written From Ports in America and England, 1795-1816 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1949), by Robert Mackay, ed. by Walter Charlton Hartridge (PDF at Georgia)
- July and August of 1914 (Cleveland: Press of the Brooks Co., 1915), by Mary Raymond Williams
- Picturesque England: Its Landmarks and Historical Haunts, As Described in Lay and Legend, Song And Story (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1891), by L. Valentine (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
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