Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus Papers, 1956-1974

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Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus Papers, 1956-1974

Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus Papers, 1956-1974

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Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus was born in 1923 in Seattle, Wash. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Folklore from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1968. Long-Wilgus moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1993 shortly after the death of her husband, D. K. Wilgus, folklorist and professor of English and Anglo-American Folksong in the Department of Folklore and Mythology at UCLA. In Chapel Hill, she became an active member of the local folklore community and established the D. K. Wilgus Fellowship in Comparative Ballad and Folksong Study in the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Long-Wilgus died in May 2005 in Chapel Hill. The collection includes materials relating to Eleanor R. Long-Wilgus's research in British and Irish folklore. Among the materials are some relating to her teaching and lecturing on British and Irish folklore and several drawings and slides of historic sites in the United Kingdom and Ireland. There are also a few items relating to a tribute to North Carolina conservationist Margaret Nygard.

Items: About 2400; Linear Feet: 3.0

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.