William Alexander Clouston (1843 – 23 October 1896) was a

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from

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."William Alexander Clouston, folklorist: introduction and bibliography"
''Folklore'', December 2004, by Gareth Whittaker ''A Supplement to Alliborne's Dictionary'' (1891, pp. 349–350), as quoted in ''Folklore'', gives the following biographical information:

b. 1843, at Stromness,
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, of an old
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family, in early life was engaged in commercial pursuits in
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, but relinquished these to engage in
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and literature; he edited several Scotch provincial newspapers, 1871-79, and is a writer for the ''
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's "Supplemental Arabian Nights" analogues and variants of some of the tales in vols. I-III.

Bibliography

''Popular Tales and Fictions their Migrations and Transformations,'' William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1887 ''A Group of Eastern Romances and Stories,'' Privately Printed, 1889. * ''Arabian Poetry for English Readers'' * ''Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers'' * ''Book of Wise Sayings: Selected Largely from Eastern Sources'' * ''The Book of Noodles: Stories Of Simpletons; Or, Fools And Their Follies'' * ''The Book of Sindibad'', 1884, 300 privately printed copies. * 'Notes on the folk-lore of the Raven and the Owl,' in:

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* * 1843 births 1896 deaths People from Orkney Scottish folklorists 19th-century Scottish writers 19th-century British journalists British male journalists Victorian writers {{UK-academic-bio-stub