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Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | One of these Scots songs, the humorous Fee him, father, fee him, written for her friend and fellow-author Fanny Head
of Ashfield in Devon, was early enough to be admired by Burns
. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 12 |
Literary responses | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | Some nineteenth-century commentators made high claims for COLN
, ranking her close to Burns
himself (though Burns scholars have found it hard to forgive her unacted-on intention of producing a bowdlerised edition of Burns). She... |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Eclectic Magazine raised her confidence about her Scots songs by pronouncing that she was easily the equal in the genre of Scott
or Campbell
, and inferior only to Burns
himself. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 13 |
Literary responses | Janet Little | For more than four years, from December 1788 to March 1793, Frances Anna Dunlop
peppered her letters to Burns
with comments about JL
's poetry, and sought to elicit criticism in return. When Burns first... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Mathers | Running her magazine did not keep HM
from other projects. She published two single-authored novels in 1891 (My Jo, John—titled from another well-known song by Burns
—and The Mystery of No. 13)... |
Occupation | Janet Little | Mrs Dunlop (mother-in-law of the writer Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, http://BARD. xxiii Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Author summary | Maria Riddell | MR
was a talented amateur poet, diarist, letter-writer, and writer for children during the Romantic period. She published in 1788 a travel book about the Caribbean which is remarkable for its scientific observation, a critical... |
Publishing | Caroline Norton | In 1859, the centenary of Robert Burns
's birth, CN
published in the Daily Scotsman, and independently as an 8-page pamphlet, verses on the poet. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
published her Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade. (The bill was that of Sir William Dolben
.) She sent a copies of her poem to Robert Burns
(who... |
Publishing | Catherine Carswell | Parts of CC
's critical biography The Life of Robert Burns (published this month and dedicated to her husband, Donald Carswell
, and to D. H. Lawrence
) were serialised in the GlasgowDaily Record... |
Publishing | Maria Riddell | Burns
returned the loan of MR
's commonplace-book, which he had read, he said, with much pleasure, MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press. 52 |
Publishing | Maria Riddell | MR
's perceptive and generous analysis and appreciation of Burns
's character and writings appeared anonymously in the Dumfries Weekly Journal only a fortnight after his death. Brown, Hilton. There Was a Lad. An Essay on Robert Burns. Hamish Hamilton. 42 MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press. 82 |
Publishing | Mrs Alexander | MA
's best-known novel, The Wooing O't, titled from a song by Robert Burns
, appeared in instalments in Temple Bar; in book form it appeared on 11 September 1873 under her new... |
Publishing | Janet Little | She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell
, who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication. Brady, Frank. James Boswell, the Later Years, 1769-1795. Heinemann. 464, 572 |
Reception | Isa Craig | IC
was awarded first prize of fifty guineas at the Burns Centenary Festival for her Ode on Burns
. Some sources give the year of this event wrongly. Parkes, Bessie Rayner. “Isa Craig and the Prize Poem on Burns”. English Woman’s Journal, Vol. 2 , No. 12, pp. 417-20. 417-18 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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