James Copland
of Orkney, who went to school at Lerwick and became a physician in Africa and a medical writer, was probably an early friend of DPC
. She may well have got to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dorothea Primrose Campbell
DPC
was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace
on her title-page, Pope
to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer
, Shakespeare
, Goldsmith
...
Timeline
1813: The Shetland poet Margaret Chalmers (born...
Women writers item
1813
The Shetland poet Margaret Chalmers
(born at Lerwick in 1858 and left in poverty with her sisters and aged mother after the death of their brother William at the battle of Trafalgar) published her Poems...
