William Smellie

Early in their Scottish life, MR and her husband visited Edinburgh to meet the printer and man of letters William Smellie . Their several visits to London included nearly two months in autumn 1793, which...

Robert Burns helped her to achieve publication, writing to the Edinburgh printer and man of letters William Smellie on 22 January 1792 that her poems were always correct and sometimes elegant, very much beyond the...

William Smellie (himself a naturalist and translator of Buffon) was not interested in MR 's poems but he expressed enthusiasm for her ingenious and judicious work of science, minute observation, [and] accurate description, which...

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...