Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She is the only woman listed in James Maidment
's scholarly Catalogues of Scotish Writers...
Author summary
Elizabeth Melvill
EM
was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian
whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First
to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content...
Textual Features
Mary Oxlie
The poem gives ten lines to humble self-deprecation, in iambic pentameter couplets: a metre which serves to separate this passage from the rest, since the remaining 42 lines, which praise Drummond
's descriptive powers, are...
