Isabel Pagan

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IP was a labouring-class Scotswoman who lived partly by entertaining, singing and reciting songs and poems of her own composition. She published a single volume of her work during the early nineteenth century.
  • BirthName: Isabel or Isobel Pagan

Milestones

By 1742

IP was born near four miles from Nith-head, that is at New Cumnock in Ayrshire.
Pagan, Isabel. A Collection of Songs and Poems on Several Occasions. Niven, Napier and Khull, 1803.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

3 November 1821

IP died at Muirkirk in Ayrshire; she was buried in the kirkyard there.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Origins

By 1742

IP was born near four miles from Nith-head, that is at New Cumnock in Ayrshire.
Pagan, Isabel. A Collection of Songs and Poems on Several Occasions. Niven, Napier and Khull, 1803.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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