Sandra Billington is an academic, author and actress who was first a lecturer and then a reader in Renaissance Theatre at the

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between 1979 and 2003. She became a Fellow of the

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in 1998. She is a graduate of the

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(

Lucy Cavendish Lucy Caroline Cavendish, also known as Lady Frederick Cavendish ( Lyttelton; 5 September 1841 – 22 April 1925), was a pioneer of women's education. A daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, she married into another aristocratic fa ...

1972). She is most noted for her work ''A Social History of the Fool'' which, in 1984, won the

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's ''Katharine Briggs Folklore Award''.

Selected publications

* Billington, Sandra. 1984. A Social History of the Fool. New York: Harvester Press * Billington, S., & Aldhouse-Green, M. J. (Eds.). (1996). The concept of the goddess. Psychology Press.Bailey, Douglass W. "The Concept of the Goddess." Antiquity 71.271 (1997): 246-248. * Billington, S. (1990). Butchers and fishmongers: their historical contribution to London's festivity. Folklore, 101(1), 97–103.

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