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Residence | Alison Cockburn | As a widow living in EdinburghAC
was, according to Sarah Tytler
and Jean L. Watson
, a lively cultural influence, serving as a connecting-link between the Edinburgh of Allan Ramsay
and Burns
, and... |
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 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Carswell | CC
's mother, Mary Anne (Lewis) Macfarlane
, was descended from a Scottish Enlightenment engineering pioneer who was also a friend of Robert Burns
. Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | In this year both Susanna Blamire
(visiting there) and Robert Burns were writing in Perthshire. This, too, was the year that Carolina Oliphant's father died, and it has been suggested that grief and a... |
Textual Production | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | It was very generally ascribed to Burns
; Carolina Nairne heard this ascription made in her presence, but she said she never answered. McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol. 47 , No. 2/3, pp. 253-87. 263 |
Textual Production | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol. 47 , No. 2/3, pp. 253-87. 258 |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary Bryan | It was dedicated to James Bedingfield
, and the title page gave her name along with a quotation from Burns
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Browne | FB
began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon. xvi-xvii |
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... |
Literary responses | Susanna Blamire | In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
had agreed to write for anthologist George Thomson
(the successor to Burns
in this work) about twenty original or adapted poems to go to Scottish, Irish, or Welsh tunes. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 8-9 and n31 |
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