Frances Anna Dunlop

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.

JL 's family was unable to afford schooling for her, so she was uneducated except for her own reading. An employer, Frances Anna Dunlop , later wrote that JLbetray[ed] no one indication that...

JL 's first position was in the house of the Rev. Mr Johnstone; she moved with his family to Glasgow. Her later service jobs included working as a chambermaid for Frances Anna Dunlop

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...

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. It is not...

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 —though...

The Christmas rupture with Burns seems to have taken effect only gradually. After the key event Burns sent MR a copy of Werther (Goethe 's novel, probably in English translation) as well as returning...

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...

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.

For more than four years, from December 1788 to March 1793, Frances Anna Dunlop peppered her letters to Burns with comments about JL 's poetry, and sought to elicit criticism in return. When Burns first...

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...

She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell , who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication.Burns helped to drum up subscribers, who numbered in the end...

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.

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. The poems...

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