Family tradition has it that John Leyden
, poet and orientalist, was in love with her.
Irvine, James, and Susan Ferrier. “Introduction”. The Inheritance, Three Rivers, 1984, p. v - xv.
xiii
While she left no surviving expression of interest in Leyden, she did mention a romantic interest in John Philpot Curran
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Bannerman
AB
seems to have been emotionally involved with her literary friend John Leyden
. He later reported to Erskine that for some months before he left Scotland for India in the year of her mother's...
Friends, Associates
Anne Bannerman
A friend who was crucial in AB
's career was Robert Anderson
, editor of a famous poetry anthology and of the Edinburgh Magazine.
qtd. in
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
130
Other important friends were John Leyden
(linguist, poet, and...
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
131 and n28
Literary responses
Anne Bannerman
The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott
, John Leyden
, and William Wordsworth
.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
38 (1803): 110ff
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
143
The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...
Occupation
Anne Bannerman
AB
was instrumental in securing the papers of John Leyden
(linguist, poet, and friend of Walter Scott
, with whom she had had some kind of close relationship) for the use of James Morton
...