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Two versions collected from England 'The Gypsy Woman' from Suffolk (The Watkins Book of English Folktales by Neil Philip pp. 103-105) and 'Duffy and the Devil' from Cornwall (Bottrell Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Vol. 2, by William Bottrell, 1873 pp.11-26) both conclude without the use of magic, instead plain trickery ...
Neil Watkins has researched the story of ‘The Old Witch’. In "The Watkins Book of English Folktales" PP.55-60 Watkins records that the story was told by a nine year old girl called Nora to Ellen Chase in Deptford (now in Greater London) in 1892. Ellen Chase gave her copy of the story to Mrs Gomme, who then sent it to Joseph Jacobs.
Set in the English countryside, it features the adventures of four gnomes who may be the last of their race. At the same time it features the countryside during three seasons of the year. Watkins-Pitchford won the 1942 Carnegie Medal recognising The Little Grey Men as the year's best children's book by a British subject. [4]
Like Watkins' other films, Edvard Munch uses a docudrama approach; scenes from Munch's life are re-enacted by a large cast (mostly Norwegian non-professional actors), but there is also a voiceover narration by Watkins, and there are moments when the characters speak directly to camera, as if being interviewed about their own lives or their opinions of Munch.
The story featured in several nineteenth century books of fairy tales under different titles : "Elphin Irving, the Fairies' Cupbearer" in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry by Allan Cunningham (1822) [note 1] "Wild Robin" in Little Prudy's Fairy Book by Sophie May (1866). [note 2]
Anchoress is a 1993 British drama film directed by Chris Newby.It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. [1]The screenplay is partly based on accounts of an historical female anchorite, Christine Carpenter, who was walled into her anchorhold in a village church in Shere, Surrey, in southern England, in 1329.
She also published academic works on education and her childhood memoirs of growing up in the Cambridgeshire fenland. She was Sue Lawley's castaway on Desert Island Discs in 1993 [4] and was a winner of the Angel Prize for Literature for her Everyman's Book of English Folk Tales (1981). [5]
Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton , Surrey, lived in Sweden , Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama .