Author:Charles Godfrey Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland
(1824–1903)

Charles Godfrey Leland

Works

• The Hans Breitmann Ballads, 1871
• English Gipsies and Their Language, 1874
• Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
• Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling
• The Algonquin legends of New England: or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes (1884)
• The Gypsies (1896) (external scan)
• Pidgin-English sing-song (transcription project)

Translations

• Fusang, or, The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century (1875) (external scan), a translation of K.F. Neumann's 1841 Reisebeschreibung des Buddist-Priesters Hoei Shin nach Tahan und Fusang
• The Works of Heinrich Heine, by Heinrich Heine
  • Vol. I: Florentine Nights (transcription project)
    • Florentine Nights
    • The Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski
    • The Rabbi of Bacharach
    • Shakespeare's Maidens and Women
  • Vol. II: Pictures of Travel, v. 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol. III: Pictures of Travel, v. 2 (transcription project)
  • Vol. IV: The Salon, or Letters on Art, Music, Popular Life and Politics (transcription project)
  • Vol. VII: French Affairs: Letters from Paris, v.1 (transcription project)
    • The Anti-Revolutionary Opinions of the King and His Rage for Building
    • Lafayette and the Republicans
    • Political Parties in France
    • English Aristocracy—Perier and Canning
    • The Juste-Milieu
    • The Cholera in Paris
  • Vol. VIII: French Affairs: Letters from Paris, v. 2 (transcription project)

Contributions to Folk-Lore

• "The Witches' Ladder" in The Folk-Lore Journal, 5 (1887)
• "Re ‘How They Met Themselves’" in Folk-Lore, 1 (1890), pp. 403–404

Works about Leland

• "Leland, Charles Godfrey," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Leland, Charles Godfrey," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Leland, Charles Godfrey," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)