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William Wirt Sikes was the son of Dr. William Johnson and Meroe (Redfield) Sikes. Born in Watertown, New York, where he lived as a boy.
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Title: Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales ... With illustrations. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Sikes, William Wirt; 1881. xvi. 304 p. ; 8º. 10369.g.1.
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Goblins, fairies, pooka, changelings, gnomes, and elves...all are lurking within this book. Their stories and legends stand the test of time, and by reading them you will soon find that you have released these creatures into your life! Are your shoes missing again? Garden thriving in spite of your neglect? Did you hear something calling out to you from the shores of the river or the sea? Be warned! You have invoked the power of the fairie. It is best to study their culture and learn to live with them. 19th century author Wirt Sikes learned to live in harmony with them while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Wales. Perhaps this collection he has bestowed upon us will help you to celebrate the magic (and the mayhem) of the fairy realm.
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BRITISH GOBLINS Welsh Folklore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions With following enhanced features • easy, enjoyable and fast read • satisfactory both to children and adult readers • attentive editing • fluid text formatting The Book in Brief The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appointed Consul to Wales and thus began his fascination with Welsh folklore. He became a renowned authority and published several books on the subject. This work is more of a scholarly discussion on the origins and geography than a narration of the stories. - Summary by Lynne Thompson The Author's Short Biography: William Wirt Sikes (November 23, 1836 – August 18, 1883) was an American journalist and writer, perhaps best known today for his writings on Welsh folklore and customs. William Wirt Sikes was born in Watertown, New York, the son of William Johnson Sikes, a prominent local physician. He was the seventh of eleven children, of whom only six survived to adulthood. Sikes himself was seriously ill as a child and almost lost his hearing, so he was largely educated at home. At fourteen he went to work for a printer and learned how to set type. He supported himself thereafter by typesetting, contributing to local newspapers, and giving temperance lectures. At the age of nineteen, on August 28, 1855, he married Jeannette Annie Wilcox (1837-1889); they had two children, George Preston Sikes (1856-1957) and Clara Jeanette Sikes (1858-1956). In 1856 he was working at the Utica Morning Herald as a typesetter and contributor. He published a book of stories and poems, A Book for the Winter-Evening Fireside, in 1858. He spent time in Chicago working at newspapers there, and around 1860 worked on a paper called City and Country in Nyack, New York.1 In 1862 he was given the job of canal inspector in Chicago for the state-owned Illinois and Michigan Canal. While in Chicago he was separated from his wife, by mutual consent; they divorced in 1870. Between 1865 and 1867 he went to New York City to work on newspapers there; he took a special interest in the lives of the poor there. He continued to write, publishing stories in The Youth's Companion, Oliver Optic's Magazine, and others. He published two novels, The World's Broad Stage (serialized in the Toledo Blade) and One Poor Girl (1869). Sikes gave lectures and was represented by the Boston Lyceum Bureau from 1869–71;3 he married fellow lecturer Olive Logan on December 19, 1871. After their marriage the couple went to Europe, where they continued to practice journalism. Sikes produced a biographical and critical piece on the Wiertz Museum for Harper's Magazine in 1873 which was later reprinted by the museum. In June 1876 Sikes was appointed U.S. Consul at Cardiff, Wales. Over the next few years Sikes produced a number of pieces on Welsh folklore, mythology, and customs, collected as British Goblins; Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends, and Traditions (1880) and Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales (1881).
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William Wirt Sikes was the son of Dr. William Johnson and Meroe (Redfield) Sikes. Born in Watertown, New York, where he lived as a boy.
He attended the local schools in Watertown, New York.
At the early age of sixteen he threw himself whole-heartedly into the temperance movement and lectured frequently in Watertown and its vicinity. When his youthful enthusiasm subsided, as it did soon, he entered the office of a local paper, where he learned the printing trade, and for a time conducted a sheet of his own. In 1856 he became employed on the Utica Morning Herald.
During the past few years he had frequently contributed to home and out-of-town papers tales and poems, some of which he collected in 1858 under the title A Book for the Winter-Evening Fireside.
A more active mode of life now presenting itself, in 1861 he accepted the position of state canal inspector of Illinois, but two years later he was working on the Chicago Evening Journal. A life of wandering had become a habit with him, and in 1865 he removed to New York, where in the course of the next few years he contributed to such papers as the Youth's Companion, Oliver Optic's Magazine, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, and the Sun.
It was at this time that he also established the Authors' Union. Settling in Nyack, New York, about 1868, for a few years he edited City and Country (Nyack) and the Rockland County Journal (Piermont, New York), in both of which he possessed a financial interest.
While working in Chicago he had given much time to the study of social conditions among the lower classes, and during his residence in New York and elsewhere he continued his investigations of city slums.
This interest in social problems is reflected in a number of magazine articles, but especially in two novels, "The World's Broad Stage" published serially in the Toledo Weekly Blade, beginning January 2, 1868, and One Poor Girl (1869).
In 1870 he was divorced from his first wife and on December 19, 1871, was married in New York to the well-known actress and lecturer, Olive Logan, with whom he had been previously associated as a business manager.
A visit he made to the Wiertz Museum, Brussels, early in the seventies resulted in a biographical and critical sketch of Antoine Wiertz, contributed to Harper's New Monthly Magazine for May 1873, which was deemed worthy of being prefixed to the Catalogue of the Wiertz-Museum (1899), a pamphlet published in English at Brussels.
During his journalistic career he published much anonymously, employing, it is said, some twenty-two pseudonyms. In June 1876 he was appointed United States consul to Cardiff, Wales.
In his newly acquired leisure he turned his attention to the region surrounding Cardiff, rich in old Welsh folklore.
He died at Cardiff, while still acting as consul, at the age of forty-six; he was buried in London.
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Quotations: "I have tramped the green lanes and roads of rural and the streets of urban South Wales so persistently during my residence at Cardiff, " he writes, "that I almost know them inch by inch".
In 1855 he married Jeannette A. Wilcox, by whom he had a son and daughter.