Lady Anne Barnard

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LAB , in her twenties a notable contributor to the Scots ballad revival, became during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a memoirist, political letter-writer, diarist, and travel-writer, as well as a fine illustrator.

Milestones

8 December 1750

Lady Anne Lindsay (later LAB ) was born at Balcarres in Fife, Scotland, the eldest of eleven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

January 1772

Lady Anne Lindsay (later LAB ), aged twenty-one, wrote new words to replace the existing ones (which she called coarse and odious) to a loved ballad tune: Auld Robin Gray.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

6 May 1825

LAB died in Berkeley Square, London, at the age of seventy-four.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

8 December 1750

Lady Anne Lindsay (later LAB ) was born at Balcarres in Fife, Scotland, the eldest of eleven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.