Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
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Robert I King of Scots
Standard Name: Robert I,, King of Scots
Used Form: Robert Bruce
Used Form: Robert the Bruce
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Willa Muir | WM
, a life-long student of languages, began her education in language early: by the age of four, she could speak Shetland, Montrose (that is, Scots English), and standard English. Later in life she learned... |
| Literary Setting | Grace Aguilar | The Days of Bruce is a melodrama about Scotland's great deliverer, Robert Bruce
. It traces the fate of fourteenth-century Scotland from its impotent rage that the tyrant Edward
[should] exult in the possession... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Helme | A frontispiece to The History of Scotland shows the Countess of Buchan
crowning Robert the Bruce
king of the Scots. Isabella, aunt of Duncan, Earl of Fife (who was also in English custody), in spite... |
| Publishing | Felicia Hemans | FH
's poem The Meeting of Wallace
and Bruce
on the Banks of the Carron, which won a prize of £50, appeared in Blackwood's. It was later printed separately as Wallace's Invocation to Bruce, A Poem. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
sets the personal story of her narrator into a context of fictionalised history (featuring the struggles of Scotland as well as Wales to resist English dominance). She even makes the fate of her protagonist... |
| Textual Features | Florence Dixie | The poems represent several distinct genres: heroic historical poems, like The Death of Robespierre, a tale of Nigel Bruce (brother of Robert the Bruce
), and a death-song for another Scots hero, Wallace
... |
Timeline
23-24 June 1314: The English attempt to conquer Scotland was...
National or international item
23-24 June 1314
The English attempt to conquer Scotland was fought off by Scottish forces under Robert Bruce
at the Battle of Bannockburn near Stirling.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Robert I
1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...
Women writers item
1838
Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria
's Scottish ancestry.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Gordon, Miss. A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History. 2nd ed., John Souter, 1838, p. 60 pp.
The Bodleian
catalogue ascribes this to L. Gordon.
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