Katharine Briggs: Story-Teller

The life and work of the renowned folklorist and writer Katharine Briggs.

Katharine Briggs made an indelible mark on the world of folklore with her compilation of the Dictionary of British Folktales in the English Languages, while her subsequent Dictionary of Fairies confirmed her already distinguished place among British Folklorists. Briggs's initial academic interest while at Oxford Universitywas in seventeenth-century literature and the Civil War. Upon leaving Oxford she pursued amateur d...