Therese Robinson, better known to her contemporaries under the pseudonym "Talvj" or "Talvi," deserves to be recognized as one of the most significant women intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Her achievement as a translator, philologist, folklorist, ethnologist, historian, social critic, and novelist was of prodigious diversity and sustained excellence. Of particular note were her contributions, now inexplicably neglected, to the collateral yet heterogeneous disciplines of Volkskunde (folklore) and Völkerkunde (ethnography). Her translations of Serbian folk songs-acclaimed by Goethe as worthy, in certain instances, of comparison with the "Song of Songs" (Gespräche mit Eckermann, 18 January 1825)--surveys of Germanic and Slavic folk histories, and monographs concerning such issues as the authenticity of the Ossianic lays both engaged and appreciably extended the tradition in folk studies established in the mid-eighteenth century by James Macpherson and Thomas Percy, and associated thereafter with such names as Johann Gottfried Herder...