Robert Burns

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 .

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.

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...

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...

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)...

Mrs Dunlop (mother-in-law of the writer Eglinton, Lady Wallace) was an important patron of Robert Burns and corresponded with him extensively.JL therefore found herself working in a household with literary connections.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Burns returned the loan of MR 's commonplace-book, which he had read, he said, with much pleasure, just after the mysterious event which gave serious offence on both sides, and was to keep them...

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...

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.

She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell , who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication.Burns helped to drum up subscribers, who numbered in the end...

IC was awarded first prize of fifty guineas at the Burns Centenary Festival for her Ode on Burns .