Chris Woodyard
Autore di Haunted Ohio: Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State
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Opere di Chris Woodyard
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Beavercreek, OH, USA
- Istruzione
- The Ohio State University (BA, Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
- Attività lavorative
- author
editor
blogger - Organizzazioni
- Costume Society of America
Fairy Investigation Society
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals - Breve biografia
- [from The Ohio State University website]
Chris Woodyard is an Ohio writer and historian. She received her BA degree with Honors in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from The Ohio State University, where her emphasis was on art history. She is the author of nine books on Ohio ghost-lore, the Haunted Ohio series, as well as three volumes on historical ghost stories, and The Victorian Book of the Dead, a book on the popular and material culture of Victorian mourning and death. She has given presentations at the Costume Society of America on "The Woman in Black: Victorian Mourning as Criminal Disguise" and "Making Shrouds: Mode, Memory, and Memento Mori." Her chapter on Irish fairylore in the United States entitled “Changelings and Banshees: Irish America” was included in the 2018 book, Magical Folk: British & Irish Fairies 500 AD to the Present, edited by Simon Young and Ceri Houlbrook, (London: Gibson Square), a collection of essays on the regional fairy-lore of Britain and Ireland, with a look at how these beliefs translated to the United States. She is a member of the Costume Society of America, The Fairy Investigation Society, and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Utenti
- 638
- Popolarità
- #39,510
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 14
I appreciated Woodyard including notes about the stories at the end as well as a bibliography, so kids whose interest in folklore was piqued during reading, have other books to look up.