What They Read at Byrdcliffe: Jessie L. Weston’s Legends of the Wagner Dramas and Tristan and Iseult

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Jessie L. Weston is now best known for her seminal study From Ritual to Romance, in which she argues that the entire mythos of the Holy Grail is in fact a coded memory of Celtic pagan rituals. Her theory, although largely discredited by academic Arthurian scholars, remains influential to this day. The Byrdcliffe Library contains […]

What They Read at Byrdcliffe: Jessie L. Weston’s Legends of the Wagner Dramas and Tristan and Iseult

What They Read at Byrdcliffe: Noll and the Fairies by Hervey White

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Hervey White is not a man you’d be inclined to trust as a children’s book author. Instead, he was a true maverick, long before founding a colony that bore that name. Although White was one of the original founders of Byrdcliffe, his Maverick Colony broke free almost immediately, in 1905. The name Maverick was derived

What They Read at Byrdcliffe: Noll and the Fairies by Hervey White

What They May Have Read at Byrdcliffe — Mystery Edition

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I took a brief detour from transcribing the Byrdcliffe Library’s card catalogue entries to search the Colony’s Guest Register for the names of writers visiting Byrdclffe, in support of an upcoming exhibition sponsored by the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. As is so often the case when researching old libraries and old archives, I stumbled into a

What They May Have Read at Byrdcliffe — Mystery Edition

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