Girl full of love after perusing location of ballad (7,4)
I believe the answer is:
reading gaol
'ballad' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'girl full of love after perusing location' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'girl' could be 'rea' and 'rea' is present in the answer.
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for reading gaol that I've seen is " Source of ballad".)