Peter Opie

Peter Mason Opie (1918 - 1982) was an English specialist in children's literature, and the customs of schoolchildren. He was educated at Eton College.

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1918 - 1982 - Children's literature - Eton College

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He worked on a number of celebrated books with his wife Iona Opie (née Archibald). They included the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951), The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book (1955), The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959), Children's Games in Street and Playground (1969) and The Classic Fairy Tales (1974).

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The Opies worked from their home in Alton, Hampshire. Peter's collection of items of old children's literature, amounting in the end to 20,000 pieces, is now in the Bodleian Library.

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Alton - Hampshire - Bodleian Library

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