Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, pp. 78-91.
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Textual Features | Janet Little | She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson
as a symbol of the tyrant-critic... |
Literary responses | Janet Little | Dunlop
wrote, Methinks I hear you ask me with an air that made me feel as I had got a slap in the face, if you must read all the few lines I had pointed... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | The Recitations (poems in which the speaking voice is crucial, most of them sharply Scots-vernacular comments on sexual or gender relations) include the title piece, Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990. This laments (in a nice... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | The play was written for the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company
, who first performed it in Edinburgh on 24 January 1986. Lochhead surprised herself with her use of the Scots language: my grandmother's .... |
Reception | Liz Lochhead | LL
was the subject of two National Book League
pamphlets, in 1978 and again in 1986. She was one of the first four twentieth-century Scottish poets (of a total of twelve) whose busts were placed... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Marsh | Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell. 1839-1842 |
Textual Production | Helen Mathers | The book took its title from the popular Robert Burns
song Comin' Thro' the Rye. It was founded on the experience of her own early life, and that of her numerous brothers and sisters... |
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)... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christian Milne | Her spirited preface outspokenly addresses the handicaps confronting lower-class writers, especially women. She observes that her fellow labouring-class poets, Burns
and Bloomfield
, hard though they worked, did not have a woman's cares. She writes... |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | The title quotation from Robert Burns
describes the writer almost as a spy on society; it continues, And faith he'll prent it. Mitchison, Naomi. Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945. Editor Sheridan, Dorothy, Oxford University Press. 5 |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron
's Childe Harold. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 133, 152 |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | The dream poems combine the qualities of horror and of nursery-rhyme. The second one begins, Mr Oddy / Met a body / Hanging from a tree, Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 385 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Nooth | The novel combines domestic humour and social satire. The courtship of Eglantine Fortescue and the young officer Augustus Fitzroy is almost overshadowed by the broad-brush picture of their families and friends. Eglantine incurs disapproval first... |
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. |
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