Mabel Geraldine Woodruffe Peacock (9 May 1856– 17 July 1920)[1] was an English folklorist.

Early life

Peacock was one of the seven children born to antiquarian Edward Peacock and Lucy Peacock, of Bottesford Manor, Brigg, Lincolnshire, and later of Kirton in Lindsey.[2] Her brother Adrian was a noted ecologist.[3][4]

Publications

Peacock published several collections of folklore, mainly stories and poems collected in Lincolnshire.[5] Noting the publication of her 1897 book of folk tales, the Hull Daily Mail noted that "Miss Peacock's two previous books are well known in Lincolnshire for their pathos and humour."[6] Peacock also edited a reprint of John Bunyan's Holy War and Heavenly Footman (1892), with full introduction and notes, and she was a contributor to the journals Folk-Lore[7] and The Naturalist.[8][9]

  • An Index of Royalists whose estates were confiscated during the Commonwealth (1879)
  • Tales and Rhymes in the Lindsey Folk-speech (1886)[10]
  • Tales fra Linkisheere (1889)[11]
  • "Omens of Death" (1897, Folk-Lore)[12]
  • Lincolnshire Tales: The Recollections of Eli Twigg (1897)[6]
  • Lincolnshire Rhymes (1907)
  • Lincolnshire County Folklore (1908, edited with Eliza Gutch)[13]
  • "Amulets Used in Lincolnshire" (1908, Folk-Lore)[14]
  • "Death-knock in the Wapentake of Corringham, Lincolnshire" (1908, Folk-Lore)[15]

Personal life and legacy

Peacock and her sister assisted and cared for their father until he died in 1915. Mabel Peacock died in Kirton Lindsey from tuberculosis in 1920, at the age of 64.[7][16] Mabel Peacock is buried in Grayingham, Lincolnshire churchyard.[1][16] In Folklore, William Crooke recalled Peacock as a "keen naturalist and county lover, with a lively play of humour."[7] The Peacock Family Archive in the North Lincolnshire Museum holds Mabel Peacock's papers as well as her father's.[17]

Peacock is among the favorite authors of Sir George Bailey in A. S. Byatt's novel, Possession (1991).[18] In 1998, a new edition of The Peacock Lincolnshire Word Books, 1884-1920, originally edited by Mabel Peacock and her brother Maximillian, were edited by Eileen Elder and published by the Scunthorpe Museum Society.[19][20]

References

  1. ^ a b Death Notice, Norfolk Chronicle, 15 December 1920
  2. ^ Davies, Tim. "A Book-larnt Linkisheere Lass". North Lincolnshire Museum. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  3. ^ Mark Seaward (23 September 2004). "Peacock, (Edward) Adrian Woodruffe- (1858–1922)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72414. Retrieved 12 August 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ Ford, Brian J. (2000). "A Report of the Meeting 'John Ray and his Successors'". Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 54 (1): 5–22. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2000.0092. S2CID 143047192. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  5. ^ Davies, Tim. "Otchins, Ghosts, and a 'tater For Rheumatism: Mabel Peacock's Dialect Tales". North Lincolnshire Museum. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  6. ^ a b "Lincolnshire Tales". Hull Daily Mail. 6 July 1897. p. 2. Retrieved 5 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b c Crooke, William, ed. (December 1920). "Obituary of Miss Mabel Peacock" . Folk-Lore. Vol. 31. p. 338 – via Wikisource. [scan Wikisource link]
  8. ^ "Notes on Lincolnshire Birds". The Naturalist: 155. May 1901.
  9. ^ "Notes on Mammals and Birds". The Naturalist: 290. October 1901.
  10. ^ "Art, Literature, and the Drama". Hull Evening News. 5 June 1886. p. 10. Retrieved 5 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Lincolnshire Notes and Queries. W. K. Morton. 1891.
  12. ^ Peacock, Mabel (December 1897). "Omens of Death". Folk-Lore. 8 (4): 377–378.
  13. ^ Gutch, Eliza; Mabel Peacock (1908). Lincolnshire: examples of printed folk-lore concerning.
  14. ^ Peacock, Mabel (March 1908). "Amulets used in Lincolnshire". Folk-Lore. 19 (1): 87–88.
  15. ^ Peacock, Mabel (December 1908). "Death-knock in the Wapentake of Corringham, Lincolnshire". Folk-Lore. 19 (4): 466–468.
  16. ^ a b Davies, Tim (19 November 2024). "Oud Taales Toud Ower Agean: Mabel Peacock, giving traditional stories a Lincolnshire twist". Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  17. ^ Nicholson, Rose. "The Peacock Family". North Lincolnshire Museum. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  18. ^ Byatt, AS. Possession 1991
  19. ^ "A treasure trove of Lincolnshire dialect". Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph. 10 January 1998. p. 55. Retrieved 4 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ Peacock, Mabel (1997). The Peacock Lincolnshire Word Books: 1884-1920 : with Additions Dating from the 18th and Earlier 19th Centuries. Scunthorpe Museum Society. ISBN 978-0-907098-04-1.
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