Nora Kershaw Chadwick
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Nora Kershaw Chadwick was a twentieth century British scholar of traditional literature. She collaborated with her husband, Hector Munro Chadwick, on a multi-volume survey of oral traditions and oral poetry. It was published by Cambridge University Press between 1932 and 1940:
- The Growth of Literature:
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- I: The Ancient Literatures of Europe (1932)
- II: Russian Oral Literature, Yugoslav Oral Poetry, Early Indian Literature, Early Hebrew Literature (1936)
- III: The Oral Literature of the Tatars and Polynesia, etc. (1940)
Later Nora Chadwick collaborated with V. M. Zhirmunsky on a revision of the part of volume III that deals with epic poetry in Central Asian languages. The revised text was published separately in 1969 as Oral Epics of Central Asia.
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