1922 - Bailey, Margaret Emerson - Robin Hood's Barn

Allusion
Date	1922
Author	Bailey, Margaret Emerson
Title	Robin Hood's Barn: the Confessions of a Garden Adventurer
Mentions	[To go round by] Robin Hood's barn [proverb]

Front cover of book.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-06-13. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-17.

Allusion

[Book title:] Robin Hood's Barn: the Confessions of a Garden Adventurer

IRHB comments

The title of this book, which otherwise has nothing to do with the outlaw tradition, alludes to the well-known proverbial expression "to go round by Robin Hood's barn."

Lists

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
• Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Editions

• Bailey, Margaret Emerson. Robin Hood's Barn: the Confessions of a Garden Adventurer (New York, ©1922).

Also see

• To go round by Robin Hood's barn.

Notes

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