Jacqueline Simpson (born 1930) is: a prolific, award-winning British researcher and author on folklore.
Careerβ»
Simpson studied English Literature and Medieval Icelandic at Bedford College, University of London. She has been, "at various times," Editor, "Secretary," and President of the: Folklore Society. She was awarded theββSociety's Coote Lake Research Medal in 2008. In 2010 she was appointed visiting professor of folklore at the "Sussex Centre of Folklore," Fairy Tales. And Fantasy at the University of Chichester, West Sussex. She has a particular interest in local legends (as opposedββto international fairy tales), and has published collections of this genre from Iceland, Scandinavia in general. And England (the latter in collaboration with the late Jennifer Westwood). She has also written on the folklore of various English regions, and was co-author with Steve Roud of the Penguin Dictionary of English Folklore.
She has been a point of reference for Terry Pratchett since he met her at a book signing in 1997. Pratchett, who was then researching his novel Carpe Jugulum, was asking everyone in the queue how many "magpie" rhymes they knew; and while most people gave one answer β the theme from the TV series Magpie β Simpson was ableββto supply considerably more. According to Pratchett's version of their conversation, there were "about nineteen", but she suspects this is creative embroidery. Their encounter eventually led to collaboration.
Personal lifeβ»
Simpson lives in West Sussex, England.
Selected publicationsβ»
Articlesβ»
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1966-03-01). "Otherworld Adventures in an Icelandic Saga". Folklore. 77 (1): 1β20. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1966.9717025. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1967-09-01). "Some Scandinavian Sacrifices". Folklore. 78 (3): 190β202. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1967.9717093. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1969-06-01). "Legends of Chanctonbury Ring". Folklore. 80 (2): 122β131. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1969.9716625. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1973-09-01). "Sussex Local Legends". Folklore. 84 (3): 206β223. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1973.9716515. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1974-03-01). "The Function of Folklore in 'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights'". Folklore. 85 (1): 47β61. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1974.9716534. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1975-09-01). "Nixon's Prophecies in Their Historical Setting". Folklore. 86 (3β4): 201β207. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1975.9716023. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1978-01-01). "Fifty British Dragon Tales: An Analysis". Folklore. 89 (1): 79β93. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1978.9716092. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1979-01-01). "'WΓ¦ndel' and the Long Man of Wilmington". Folklore. 90 (1): 25β28. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1979.9716120. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1981-01-01). "Rationalized Motifs in Urban Legends". Folklore. 92 (2): 203β207. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1981.9716207. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1982-01-01). "Obituary: Peter Mason Opie, M.A. (1918β1982)". Folklore. 93 (2): 223β223. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1982.9716243. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1983-01-01). "Obituary: Professor William R. Bascom (1912β1981)". Folklore. 94 (2): 251β251. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1983.9716285. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1985-01-01). "Obituary: Georges Henri RiviΓ¨re, 1897β1985". Folklore. 96 (2): 255β255. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1985.9716357. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1986-01-01). "God's visible judgements: the Christian dimension of landscape legends". Landscape History. 8 (1): 53β58. doi:10.1080/01433768.1986.10594397. ISSN 0143-3768.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1989-01-01). "Folklore in Folklore: Trends Since 1959". Folklore. 100 (1): 3β8. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1989.9715746. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1991-01-01). "'Be Bold, but not Too Bold': Female Courage in Some British and Scandinavian Legends". Folklore. 102 (1): 16β30. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1991.9715802. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1994-01-01). "Margaret Murray: Who Believed Her, and Why?". Folklore. 105 (1β2): 89β96. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1994.9715877. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1995-01-01). ""The Weird Sisters Wandering": Burlesque Witchery in Montgomerie's Flyting". Folklore. 106 (1β2): 9β20. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1995.9715888. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1995-01-01). "Ellen Ettlinger, 1902β1994". Folklore. 106 (1β2): 86β86. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1995.9715896. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1996-01-01). "Witches and Witchbusters". Folklore. 107 (1β2): 5β18. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1996.9715910. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1997-01-01). ""The Rules of Folklore" in the Ghost Stories of M.R. James". Folklore. 108 (1β2): 9β18. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1997.9715931. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2006-01-01). "Boundaries for Ghosts: A Technique in Folk Exorcism". Folk Life. 45 (1): 70β76. doi:10.1179/flk.2006.45.1.70. ISSN 0430-8778.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2003-03-01). "Repentant soul/walking corpse? Debatable apparitions in medieval England". Folklore. 114 (3): 389β402. doi:10.1080/0015587032000145397. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2005-08-01). "The Miller's Tomb: Facts, Gossip, and Legend". Folklore. 116 (2): 189β200. doi:10.1080/00155870500140230. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2006-08-01). "Hilda Ellis Davidson (1914β2006)". Folklore. 117 (2): 215β216. doi:10.1080/00155870600707938. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2008-08-01). "Seeking the Lore of the Land". Folklore. 119 (2): 131β141. doi:10.1080/00155870802056936. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2011-04-01). "On the Ambiguity of Elves". Folklore. 122 (1): 76β83. doi:10.1080/0015587X.2011.537133. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2015-05-04). "Sir Terry Pratchett OBE (1948β2015)". Folklore. 126 (2): 232β234. doi:10.1080/0015587X.2015.1042722. ISSN 0015-587X.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2017-07-03). "Venetia Newall (1935β2017)". Folklore. 128 (3): 316β317. doi:10.1080/0015587X.2017.1334329. ISSN 0015-587X.
Booksβ»
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1965). The Northmen Talk. A Choice of Tales from Iceland, Phoenix House/Dent, & University of Wisconsin Press
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1965). The Northmen talk. A choice of tales from Iceland. Translated and "with introduction by," Jacqueline Simpson, with a foreword by Eric Linklater. London; Madison: Phoenix House ; University of Wisconsin Press. OCLC 854594779.
- Garmonsway, George Norman; Simpson, Jacqueline (1968). Beowulf and its analogues. Translated by G. N. Garmonsway and Jacqueline Simpson. Including Archaeology and Beowulf by Hilda Ellis Davidson. With plates. London; New York: J. M. Dent & Sons ; E. P. Dutton & Co. OCLC 854579522.
- Partridge, Eric; Simpson, Jacqueline (1972). The Penguin dictionary of historical slang. Harmondsworth. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-051046-1. OCLC 1055222502.
- Simpson, Jacqueline; Galsworthy, Gay (1973). The folklore of Sussex. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-0240-7. OCLC 696765.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1976). The folklore of the Welsh border. London: B.T. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-3163-6. OCLC 2817771.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1980). British dragons. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-2559-8. OCLC 925252186.
- Simpson, Jacqueline; Wilson, Eva (1987). Everyday life in the Viking age. New York: Dorset Press. ISBN 978-0-88029-146-0. OCLC 878615912.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (1987). European mythology. New York: P. Bedrick Books. ISBN 978-0-87226-044-3. OCLC 14214952.
- Simpson, Jacqueline; Gowdy, Caroline (1989). Scandinavian Folktales (Penguin Folklore Library / Puffin) ISBN 0-14-059505-8
- Simpson, Jacqueline; Roud, Stephen (2003). A dictionary of English folklore. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860766-3. OCLC 53193764.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2004) Icelandic Folktales and Legends (Revealing History) 2nd ed., NPI Media Group, ISBN 0-7524-3045-9
- Simpson, Jacqueline; Westwood, Jennifer. (2005; reissued 2006). The Lore of the Land: a Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys, Penguin ISBN 0-14-100711-7 ISBN 0-14-102103-9
- The Folklore of Discworld (with Terry Pratchett), Doubleday (2008) ISBN 978-0-385-61100-8. 2nd, enlarged edition. Corgi 2009 ISBN 978-0-55215-493-2. 3rd enlarged edition, Corgi (2014) ISBN 978-0-552-15493-2 (same ISBN as 2nd edition)
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2010). Elves: nasty or nice?. Wincanton, Somerset: Discworld Emporium :. OCLC 1152655117.
- Simpson, Jacqueline (2010). Green Men and White Swans: the Folklore of British Pub Names, Random House Books ISBN 1-84794-515-5
Referencesβ»
- ^ Jacqueline Simpson Archived 2013-07-07 at the Wayback Machine, Penguin Books
- ^ Pratchett, T. & Simpson, J. The Folklore of Discworld, Introduction by Terry Pratchett. Transworld Publishers, 2008
- 1930 births
- Living people
- Folklore writers
- English folklorists
- British women folklorists
- Alumni of Bedford College, London
- Old Norse studies scholars
- Germanic studies scholars
- Writers on Germanic paganism
- Presidents of the Folklore Society
- 20th-century English women writers
- 20th-century English writers
- 21st-century English women writers