Mary Smith, Old Castles — Advertisements (1868)
“ Sidney Gilpin, himself owning a name which has belonged to more than one Cumberland celebrity, has collected and edited a volume of the dialect-songs and ballads, and other specimens of the minstrelsy of his county, and offers it to the appreciation of the English public. The "Songs and Ballads of Cumberland" ought to be a welcome volume to all who can relish the home-spun simple lauguage of a genuine muse of the hills. ”
Mary Smith, Old Castles — Advertisements (1868)
“ Poetry seems now to flourish more in the north than in the south of England. Not long ago we noticed an admirable collection of Cumberland ballads, containing two songs by Miss Blamire, which are amongst the most beautiful and pathetic in our language. ”
Mary Smith, Old Castles — Advertisements (1868)
“ It is seldom that a book compiled on the local principle contains so much good matter as this collection of the "Songs and Ballads of Cumberland." In the pathetic vein. Miss Blamire is a host in herself; and the humorous and "character sketches," as we may call them, by various hands, are more vigorous and picturesque, and less vulgar or coarse, than is at all common in the works of local poets. To some readers the peculiar dialect may be objectionable ”
