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The Warrior Women Project

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  • Dugaw’s Catalogue
    • A New Catalogue Introduction
    • The Original Catalogue
  • The Ballads
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    • Finding Aid
  • Scholarship
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The Warrior Women Project

  • About
  • Dugaw’s Catalogue
    • A New Catalogue Introduction
    • The Original Catalogue
  • The Ballads
    • Search & Sort the Ballads
    • Finding Aid
  • Scholarship
  • Resources
  • Dugaw’s Playlist
  • Feedback

Featured Student Work

Annotated Ballads

Kaitlyn Holt, The London Heiress

Talia Smock, The Constant Female (The Rakish Female Sailor)

Categories

  • "Amoret and Phillis"
  • "An Orange"
  • "As I went early in the Spring"
  • "Farewel my dearest Nancey"
  • "Farewell to St. Giles's"
  • "Female Drummer"
  • "Guinea wins her"
  • "I am a Jovial Bachelor"
  • "I often for my Jenny strove"
  • "I would give ten thousand pounds, or Ned Smith"
  • "I would thou wert in Shrewsbury"
  • "Let Caesar live long"
  • "Let Mary live long"
  • "Let the Soldiers Rejoice"
  • "Liggan Water: Or, Glory of London-Derry"
  • "My Logding Is On The Cold Ground, &c."
  • "Ned Smith"
  • "O My Dearest Dear"
  • "Soldier's Cloak"
  • "State and Ambition"
  • "The Blind Beggor"
  • "The Faithful Friend"
  • "The Rambling Sailor"
  • "The Souldiers Departure"
  • "The Wagon Train"
  • "Upon a Summer time"
  • "Wet and Weary"
  • "When the Stormy Winds do Blow"
  • "White Cockade"
  • "Why did she Leave him?"
  • "William and Harriet"
  • Actual crossdressing happens
  • Available on BBO
  • Available on EBBA
  • Available on ECCO
  • Available on EEBO
  • Available on ESTC
  • Class, status, rank mentioned
  • Death – lover
  • Death – other
  • Death – WW
  • Dialect
  • Dugaw Grouping: I.I.A. Discourse Ballads. Dialogue-Debates
  • Dugaw Grouping: I.I.B. Discourse Ballads. Statements of Intention
  • Dugaw Grouping: I.II. Discourse-Narrative Ballads
  • Dugaw Grouping: I.III.A. Narrative Ballads. Ballads of Parental Intervention in a Courtship
  • Dugaw Grouping: I.III.B. Narrative Ballads. Ballads in which the Heroine Disguises Herself to Accompany or Pursue Her Beloved
  • Dugaw Grouping: I.III.C. Ballads in which the Heroine Disguises Herself because of Her Patriotism or Her Desire for Adventure
  • Dugaw Grouping: I.IV. Miscellaneous Ballads
  • Dugaw transcribed multiple versions
  • Earliest ballad date: 1650-1700
  • Earliest ballad date: 1700-1800
  • Earliest ballad date: 1800-later
  • Earliest ballad date: Pre-1650
  • Full ballad (facsimile) online
  • Gender/sex reveal
  • Injury – lover
  • Injury – WW
  • Involuntary enlistment of lover
  • Location of war/enemy specified
  • Lover approves
  • Lover disapproves
  • Lover has change of heart
  • Marriage happens
  • Marriage promised
  • Mention of WW's perceived feminine characteristics
  • Money
  • Narrator or outside observer
  • Overnight visit/shared bed
  • Parents approve
  • Parents disapprove
  • Parents have change of heart
  • Passage of time marked
  • Pregnancy
  • Racialized language
  • Religion mentioned
  • Returns to feminine dress
  • Shipwreck
  • Specific audience targeted
  • Suggests crossdressing – Cisman
  • Suggests crossdressing – Other
  • Suggests crossdressing – WW
  • The Maiden's Joy
  • Token exchanged/offered
  • Uncategorized
  • Variants: Dugaw version not online
  • Variants: no known variant
  • Variants: variant online; link available in WWP spreadsheet
  • Violent language/acts toward enemy
  • Whiteness/tanning language
  • WW military prowess/promotion/accolades

Tags

Blood/bleeding Blue Brigh Bright Cannon/cannonball Captain Cheek Cheeks Crying Damsel Disease Fainting Faithfulness Feet Fingers Fortune Hair Hands Heart Hero Kilt Kindness King Lips Maid/maiden Maidenhead Medic/surgeon Poison Prison Queen Ring Rope Sailor Savage Skin Soldier tears Trousers/breeches Turtle Uniform Virgin Waist Youthfulness
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