Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir, 1803.
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death | Robert Burns | Anne Grant
wrote prose remarks on his memory, a poem on his death, and Verses Addressed to Mrs Dunlop
of Dunlop, on reading Burns's letters to that Lady. Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir, 1803. 261-6 |
Education | Janet Little | JL
's family was unable to afford schooling for her, so she was uneducated except for her own reading. Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, 1976, pp. 78-91. 79 |
Employer | Janet Little | JL
's first position was in the house of the Rev. Mr Johnstone; she moved with his family to Glasgow. Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, 1976, pp. 78-91. 79 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Robert Burns | Burns was regularly engaged with at least one woman or another from his teenage years onwards. A number of his notorious love-affairs and sentimental friendships had for object women who wrote. His relationships with poet... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eglinton Wallace | EW
's mother-in-law was Frances Anna Dunlop
(born Wallace), patron of the labouring-class poet Janet Little
and (more famously) of Robert Burns
. Sir Thomas Wallace (born Dunlop) was her eldest son. “The Burns Encyclopedia”. Burns Country. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Doreen Wallace | DW
was proud of her forebears, who included not only the Scottish national hero William Wallace
but also Frances Dunlop
(friend of Robert Burns
and patron of the labouring-class poet Janet Little
— Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. xxiii |
Friends, Associates | Janet Little | Some time later, presumably after a reply from Burns, she attempted to visit him at his farm at Ellisland in Dumfriesshire. He was not at home when she first arrived, and when he returned... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | |
Literary responses | Janet Little | |
Literary responses | Janet Little | Dunlop
wrote, Methinks I hear you ask me with an air that made me feel as I had got a slap in the face, if you must read all the few lines I had pointed... |
Literary responses | Janet Little | Frances Anna Dunlop
made her final mention of JL
in her correspondence with Burns
: a fierce reproof for his contemptuous response to Little's Poetical Works. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, 1843 - 1921, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, http://BARD. 378-81 |
Publishing | Janet Little | She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell
, who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication. Brady, Frank. James Boswell, the Later Years, 1769-1795. Heinemann, 1984. 464, 572 |
Reception | Janet Little | Frances Anna Dunlop
wrote to Robert Burns
her earliest surviving comment on JL
's poetry: Dunlop clearly takes her seriously as a poet but confesses to disliking her blank verse. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, 1843 - 1921, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, http://BARD. 126-7 |
Textual Features | Anne Grant | AG
's Introductory Verses, addressed to dead and living friends, begin: Go, artless records of a life obscure, and liken herself to the nightingale singing with a thorn in her breast. Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir, 1803. 17-18 |
Textual Production | Anne Grant | Among her 3,000 subscribers were Joanna Baillie
, Felicia Hemans
, Robert Southey
, William Wordsworth
, Lady Bessborough
, her sister Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, the minor poet Lady Dick
, Elizabeth Hamilton |
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