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Francis James Child 1825-96, American scholar, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1846. At Harvard he was professor of rhetoric (1851-76) and English literature (1876-96). He greatly influenced modern methods of Chaucer study. He is best known, however, for his English and Scottish Popular Ballads (5 vol., 1883-98). This is a major source on folklore in which Child defined, with examples, some 305 types of ballads, including complete textual variations.

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Child, Francis James (1825–96), American scholar, edited Spenser (5 vols, 1855) and wrote a pioneering study of Chaucer (1863), but is most widely known for his great collection of English and Scottish Popular Ballads (5 vols, 1882–98). (See ballad.)

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