A collection of Internet links to other sites with information about Sabine Baring-Gould and other matters of interest to SBGAS members

Baring-Gould Books On-line

 There are now a number of complete texts of books by Sabine Baring-Gould to be found on-line.  The three main sources are:

 

The Internet Archive

This is the largest and most useful repositary of texts that I have found and a search for Baring-Gould will yield more that 50 full texts that you can read on-line or download. The on-line reader is much clearer and faster than reading PDF files, though you can download PDFs or text to your computer for study at your leisure.

 

Google Books Online

Is another massive collection of electronic texts, both books and magazine articles. I find it frustrating that the search, like many of the searches of on-line newspapers, pull out all the adverts for books as well as the full texts. The texts are presented as PDF files and can be slow to download.

 

Project Gutenberg

Another large on-line collection which contains four Baring-Gould books at present - A Book of Werewolves, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, In Troubadour Land, and The Village Pulpit Vol II.

 

There are also some texts to be found in other places. I have checked the previous list on this page and I found that two previously listed could no longer be found - but the collections listed above more than compensate for their loss.  Here are the ones that I know about :

 

Fiction:

Bladys of the Stewponey

The Frobishers

 

Non-fiction:

A Book of Werewolves

A Book of Folk-lore

Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (part only)

 

Other articles:

Essay on English Folk Music
from 'English Minstrelsie'

 

 

Baring-Gould Links

 Songs of the West - Sabine Baring-Gould

This site contains a wealth of detail about Baring-Gould's activities collecting folk song in Devon and Cornwall, together with a number of articles by Martin Graebe. Several of the songs collected by Baring-Gould are included on the site and two special collections: 'Women's Songs' and 'Children's Songs' taken from the manuscripts.

 

Folkopedia

A new site, supported by the English Folk Dance and Song Society that will become a major on-line repositary for folk music and song. The page about Baring-Gould is edited by Martin Graebe

 

Praxis Books

A small press, run by SBGAS member Becky Smith (aka Rebecca Tope) and specialising in re-publishing books by Baring-Gould

 

Signal Books

Another small press which recently produced a reprint of Baring-Gould's 'Iceland: it's scenes and sagas' with a new introduction by Martin Graebe. They have some other great books as well, mainly classic travel books and culturals studies
 

Red Spider Company

Devon's own deeply loved RSC! The enthusiastic amateur dramaticists who have brought memorable productions of 'Red Spider' and 'Kitty Alone' to the stages of West Devon as well as many other great projects

 

Robert Burnard

Burnard was one of Baring-Gould's best friends and they spent a lot of time working together on the exploration of Dartmoor and its archaeology.  Burnard was a skilled photographer and his pictures captured a lot of the work they did together and Sabine is included in many of his pictures.  His archive was left to the Dartmoor Trust by his grand-daughter, Lady Sylvia Sayer, and many of the photographs can now be found on the Dartmoor Archive site, with some interesting new material to be added shortly.

 West Country Poets

An article about Sabine's poetry transcribed from Wright's 'West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works.  The same site also gives the transcription from the same source of the article about Jonas Coaker of Postbridge from whom Baring-Gould collected songs.

 

 Literary Heritage - West Midlands

This project focusses on writers associated with Shropshire and the West Midlands and is reponsible for the complete texts of 'Bladys of the Stewponey' and 'The Frobishers' mentioned above.  You will also find a brief biography of Sabine and notes on the novels.