Peter Opie and his wife Iona became pioneers in the study of children’s folklore. Beginning with I Saw Esau in 1947, the couple produced The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, both grounded in fieldwork in schools across Britain. The Folklore Society gave them its Coote Lake Medal in 1960.
© Dcs57CC BY-SA 4.0 Peter Opie
Folklorist; The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
- Born
- 25 November 1918, Cairo, Egypt
- Died
- 5 February 1982, West Liss, Hampshire
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