Mother Shipton Investigated
William H. Harrison
William H. Harrison’s examination, published early in 1881, of the Mother Shipton books in the British Museum Library. He finds the couplet dating the world’s end to 1881 absent from the earliest records and attributes it to Charles Hindley.
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Edition and location
William H. Harrison, Mother Shipton Investigated: The Result of Critical Examination in the British Museum Library, of the Literature Relating to the Yorkshire Sibyl (London: W. H. Harrison, 1881). Internet Archive scan mothershiptonin00harrgoog (Google digitization), page images inspected: pp. 42–43, from “The three earliest records” through “by Mr. Charles Hindley.”. The couplet is kept as two printed lines; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
pp. 42–43