Sandra Billington

Sandra Billington is an academic, author and actress who was first a lecturer and then a reader in Renaissance Theatre at the University of Glasgow between 1979 and 2003. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1998. She is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (Lucy Cavendish 1972). She is most noted for her work A Social History of the Fool which, in 1984, won the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.[1][2]

Selected publications
  • Billington, Sandra. 1984. A Social History of the Fool. New York: Harvester Press[3][4][5][6]
  • Billington, S., & Aldhouse-Green, M. J. (Eds.). (1996). The concept of the goddess. Psychology Press.[7][8]
  • Billington, S. (1990). Butchers and fishmongers: their historical contribution to London's festivity. Folklore, 101(1), 97–103.

References
  1. Billington, Sandra(2009) Coming Up for the Third Time: Biography and Autobiography (Partly Fictionalised), Holly Books
  2. Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Folklore Award https://folklore-society.com/awards/the-katharine-briggs-folklore-award/
  3. Pettitt, T. (1985). A Social History of the Fool. By Sandra Billington. Brighton and New York: Harvester Press and St. Martin's Press, 1984. Pp. x 150. £18.95. Theatre Research International, 10(3), 228-229. doi:10.1017/S0307883300010920
  4. Rebhorn Wayne A. 1985. “Book Review: A Social History of the Fool.” Renaissance Quarterly 351–53.
  5. DePorte, Michael 1988. “Book Review: A Social History of the Fool.” The Modern Language Review 135–36.
  6. Ellis Davidson H R. “Book Review: A Social History of the Fool.” Folklore 1986 pp. 116–116.
  7. Bitel, L. M. (1998). " The Concept of the Goddess" ed. by Sandra Billington and Miranda Green (Book Review). Journal of Women's History, 10(3), 192.
  8. Bailey, Douglass W. "The Concept of the Goddess." Antiquity 71.271 (1997): 246-248.
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