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Sophia Morrison is an incredibly important figure in Manx cultural history.
There is hardly a part of the Isle of Man's culture today which is not flourishing in the wake of Sophia Morrison's hard work in the fields of Manx language, music, folklore, theatre, literature, dialect and more over a century ago.
This page is a small collection of materials offering ways find out more about what she did for the Isle of Man during her lifetime and their continued relevance and vitality today.
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- Manx Fairy Tales (1911)
- Mannin: A Journal of Matters Past and Present relating to Mann
- Manx Cookery Book [extracts]
- A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect
- 'Speaking from the Shadows: Sophia Morrison and the Manx Cultural Revival' - Dr Breesha Maddrell article in Folklore (2002)
- "I have heard them sung lately in Peel": Some folk songs collected by Sophia Morrison (MN 179)
- "I picked up a most beautiful old Manx tune yesterday": Sophia Morrison (1859-1917) (MN 148)
- 'Contextualising a vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect: Developing Manx identities' PhD thesis by Dr Breesha Maddrell
- Images relating to Sophia Morrison on the Manx National Heritage iMuseum
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