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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Robert Keith
Robert Keith
01 January 1697
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01 January 1774
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Keith, Robert,, c.1697 - 1774
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Alison Cockburn
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did not publish, and much of her writing is probably lost. She won a place in literary history with her composition of a popular mournful song or ballad, to an old Scottish tune. Most...
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Alison Cockburn
Shortly after the death of the diplomat
Robert Keith
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wrote an account of his life, in style a fable as much as a biography, which she sent to the
Earl of Haddington (probably Thomas, seventh Earl
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