William Alexander Clouston

William Alexander Clouston (1843 – 23 October 1896) of Orkney was a 19th-century British folklorist.^[1]

A Supplement to Alliborne's Dictionary (1891, pp. 349–350), as quoted in Folklore,^[1] gives the following biographical information:

b. 1843, at Stromness, Orkney Islands, of an old Norse family, in early life was engaged in commercial pursuits in Glasgow and London, but relinquished these to engage in journalism and literature; he edited several Scotch provincial newspapers, 1871-79, and is a writer for the Glasgow Herald, Evening Times, &c. He has given particular attention to Oriental fiction and folklore, and contributed to Sir R. F. Burton's "Supplemental Arabian Nights" analogues and variants of some of the tales in vols. I-III.

Bibliography

• 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.

References

1. "William Alexander Clouston , folklorist: introduction and bibliography", Folklore, December 2004, by Gareth Whittaker

External links

• Works by William Alexander Clouston at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about William Alexander Clouston at Internet Archive