Christian Gray

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CG , a labouring-class Scottish poet of the early nineteenth century, wrote in a wide range of genres, from political to religious and autobiographical. Many of her poems are written in Scots, and some are answers to well-known Scots songs. She published two volumes of poems. Her achievement is the more remarkable because she was blind from childhood.
  • BirthName: Christian Gray

Milestones

By April 1772

CG was born at Aberdalgie in Perthshire, Scotland, the elder of the only two children in her family who lived to adulthood.
She was christened during this month.
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1821

A second volume of CG 's poetry appeared, this time at Perth and entitled A New Selection of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse: again her title-page quotes from the third book of Paradise Lost, where Milton laments his blindness.
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Biography

Birth and Family

By April 1772

CG was born at Aberdalgie in Perthshire, Scotland, the elder of the only two children in her family who lived to adulthood.
She was christened during this month.
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