Sandra Billington is an academic, author and actress who was first a lecturer and then a reader in Renaissance Theatre at the University of Glasgow between 1979 and 2003. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1998. She is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (Lucy Cavendish 1972). She is most noted for her work A Social History of the Fool which, in 1984, won the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.[1][2]
Selected publications
edit- Billington, Sandra. 1984. A Social History of the Fool. New York: Harvester Press[3][4][5][6]
- Billington, S., & Aldhouse-Green, M. J. (Eds.). (1996). The concept of the goddess. Psychology Press.[7][8]
- Billington, S. (1990). Butchers and fishmongers: their historical contribution to London's festivity. Folklore, 101(1), 97–103.
References
edit- ^ Billington, Sandra(2009) Coming Up for the Third Time: Biography and Autobiography (Partly Fictionalised), Holly Books
- ^ Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Folklore Award https://folklore-society.com/awards/the-katharine-briggs-folklore-award/
- ^ Pettitt, T. (1985). A Social History of the Fool. By Sandra Billington. Brighton and New York: Harvester Press and St. Martin's Press, 1984. Pp. x 150. £18.95. Theatre Research International, 10(3), 228-229. doi:10.1017/S0307883300010920
- ^ Rebhorn Wayne A. 1985. “Book Review: A Social History of the Fool.” Renaissance Quarterly 351–53.
- ^ DePorte, Michael 1988. “Book Review: A Social History of the Fool.” The Modern Language Review 135–36.
- ^ Ellis Davidson H R. “Book Review: A Social History of the Fool.” Folklore 1986 pp. 116–116.
- ^ Bitel, L. M. (1998). " The Concept of the Goddess" ed. by Sandra Billington and Miranda Green (Book Review). Journal of Women's History, 10(3), 192.
- ^ Bailey, Douglass W. "The Concept of the Goddess." Antiquity 71.271 (1997): 246-248.