John Leyden

Standard Name: Leyden, John

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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 ...
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.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
130
Other important friends were John Leyden (linguist, poet, and...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Bannerman
The volume was well reviewed, and poems were reprinted in two magazines. Literary commentators like Thomas Park , Joseph Cooper Walker , and Joseph Martin , assured Robert Anderson of their admiration.
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
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.
38 (1803): 110ff
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
143
The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...
Family and Intimate relationships Susan Ferrier
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, p. v - xv.
xiii
While she left no surviving expression of interest in Leyden, she did mention a romantic interest in John Philpot Curran

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