He was Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University.
In a Mojo interview with Eliza Carthy, she is alleged to have described to the interviewer how her dad found her sitting on the floor reading a book of child (in lower case) ballads. So whoever wrote the piece imagined she was reading a book of kids' stories too.
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