After her sister Margaret's marriage to Sir James Bland Burges
(which preceded Margaret's death by only two years), LAB
lived in Berkeley Square.
Alexander William Crawford Lindsay, twenty-fifth Earl of Crawford,. Lives of the Lindsays. John Murray.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir James Bland Burges
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Anne Barnard
Lady Anne's sister Margaret
(later Burges) made a reluctant marriage to Alexander Fordyce
(brother to the preacher and author Dr James Fordyce
) when she was eighteen. He had been born in Aberdeen but found...
Textual Production
Eliza Parsons
Besides EP
's surviving letters to the Royal Literary Fund
, OCLC WorldCat lists two undated letters of hers to Sir James Bland Burges
and one of 1801 to William Pitt the Younger
.
It seems that at least JW
's brother Joseph (whose published critique of Pope's poetry helped reshape literary opinion) was open to influence from her critical judgement; this raises at least the possibility that some...