Robert Anderson

01 January 1749 - 01 January 1830

Standard Name: Anderson, Robert,, 1749 - 1830

Connections

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Publishing	Anne Bannerman	Robert Anderson 's Edinburgh Magazine published work by AB under the pseudonym Augusta: two sonnets and a verse translation from Rousseau . Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 131
Friends, Associates	Anne Bannerman	A friend who was crucial in AB 's career was Robert Anderson , editor of a famous poetry anthology and of the Edinburgh Magazine. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 130 Other important friends were John Leyden (linguist, poet, and...
Occupation	Anne Bannerman	This was when she took up a position as governess to the family of Lady Frances Beresford in Exeter. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 131 Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. Some of her friends felt her lofty and unaccommodating mind Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 133 made her unlikely...
Literary responses	Anne Bannerman	The volume was well reviewed, and poems were reprinted in two magazines. Literary commentators like Thomas Park , Joseph Cooper Walker , and Joseph Martin , assured Robert Anderson of their admiration. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 131 and n28
Author summary	Anna Gordon	AG , later Mrs Brown of Falkirk, was known even in her lifetime as a collector and performer of ballads and traditional Scottish songs. She was the earliest performer from whom unprinted ballads were collected...
Literary responses	Anna Gordon	William Tytler was followed by many more in his interest in AG 's ballads. His son Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee) , Scott , Jamieson , Joseph Ritson , M. G. Monk Lewis , Robert Anderson

Timeline

1792

Literary scholar Robert Anderson began publishing his Works of the British Poets in Edinburgh.

1810

Alexander Chalmers published an influential anthology, Works of the British Poets, in 21 volumes.

1825

Alexander Dyce , then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.

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