“The Burns Encyclopedia”. Burns Country.
Janet Little
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Standard Name: Little, Janet
Birth Name: Janet Little
Nickname: The Scotch Milkmaid
, an eighteenth-century Scottish proletarian poet, was fully aware of the obstacles placed in her way by her gender, class, and nationality. She freely admits the audacity of writing poetry from her class and gender position, but always with spirit, not submissiveness.
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Little, Janet. The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid. J. and P. Wilson, 1792.