Louise Pound: Scholar, Athlete, Feminist Pioneer , by Robert Cochran: Review in the Journal of Folklore Research from Indiana University. Louise Pound (1872–1958), the subject of Robert Cochran’s new biography, may seem an unlikely candidate to become one of the leading folklorists of the first half of the twentieth century. ... Her dissertation, “The Comparison of Adjectives in English in the XV and XVI Centuries,” represented the painstaking philological scholarship that characterized... read more
