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Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Barrell | Her husband was the elder James Mackittrick Adair (1728-1801). He had practised as a physician in Antigua and was one of the many enemies of Philip Thicknesse
. His first wife was named Anne Barter... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eglinton Wallace | EW
's mother-in-law was Frances Anna Dunlop
(born Wallace), patron of the labouring-class poet Janet Little
and (more famously) of Robert Burns
. Sir Thomas Wallace (born Dunlop) was her eldest son. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Ann Browne | James Gray's father had been a friend of Burns
, and his namesake James Gray
the Ettrick Shepherd (a Scottish poet who died in 1830) was his uncle. MAB
wrote a poem about listening to... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | AG
visited Jean Burns
, the widow of Robert
, in Dumfries. Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, pp. 237-96. 286 |
Friends, Associates | Janet Little | JL
tried to initiate a correspondence with Robert Burns
. At this date he was widely known by his nickname of the ploughman poet, and Little was frankly partial to him because of his class. Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, pp. 78-91. 79 Ferguson, Moira. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender. State University of New York Press. 92, 95 |
Friends, Associates | Alison Cockburn | She wrote that some of my most steady friends thro' Life were my childhood companions, girls she had been at school with. Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas. 2 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | As a friend rather than a lover, Burns
was crucially helpful to MR
. He first put her in touch with the printer, intellectual, and naturalist William Smellie
, who published her work and became... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | |
Friends, Associates | Helen Craik | HC
's friends included the writers Maria Riddell
and Robert Burns
(as well as the former's brother-in-law Robert Riddell
). She corresponded with Burns, and praised his work in high terms. |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | During the last months of Burns
's life, Riddell was again sending him her verses to read. He dined at her house, though too weak to walk, on 5 July 1796, and asked her sardonically... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | That year HMW
was introduced by Dr John Moore
to Burns
, with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers
(in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi
, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. The year... |
Intertextuality and Influence | May Crommelin | The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic]
about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. Crommelin, May. Orange Lily. Ullans Press. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Original poems (sonnets, songs, ballads, occasional pieces) as well as more translations (from Latin, represented by Horace
, as well as from Italian) occupy the latter part of volume two. Many of the occasional poems... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns
; the second quotes Swift
denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for... |
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