She Sells Seashells and Mary Anning: Metafolklore with a Twist
Posted by: Stephen Winick
A little while back, the internet was abuzz with the inspirational story of Mary Anning, a pioneering 19th-century paleontologist from Lyme Regis in England. Some of my favorite blogs and magazines got in on the act: Atlas Obscura, QI (Quite Interesting), Dangerous Women, Cracked, and Forbes, to name just a few, published versions of the …
Posted in: England, Folksong, Legends, Metafolklore (Folklore about Folklore)