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Copy Book Transcription Of The Ballad Of Susanna Cox, 1862, Unknown Author
Copy Book Transcription Of The Ballad Of Susanna Cox, 1862, Unknown Author
Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents
In this student copybook dating from circa 1862, the writer transcribes the ballad of Susanna Cox in both German and English. It recounts the trial and execution of a woman named Susanna Cox who killed her child, conceived out of wed-lock. The work copied in the book appears to be based on the Louis Storck translation of the ballad by Johann Philip Gombert.