In 1793 Burns
was soliciting from MR
a song for the antiquarian anthologist George Thomson
(presumably for A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, which began publication this year). In summer 1795 she sent...
Anthologization
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
This edition brings together the duchess's work with that of others including Burns
. OCLC records only a single extant copy, at the University of British Columbia
. Saint Gothard would certainly have appeared in...
Education
Dorothy Wordsworth
For DW
, the scanty education deemed suitable for females in the English provinces at this time was reinforced first by reading poetry, particularly Burns
, with her brother William
. Later she studied French...
Education
Sarah Josepha Hale
Sarah Josepha Buell (later SJH
) was taught at home by her mother, with her father and her brother Horatio
(then a law student) joining in for such higher branches of learning as writing, Latin...
Education
Elizabeth Ham
EH
continued learning throughout her life. She borrowed books whenever an opportunity arose. She discovered Burns
and took him to her heart, and later, with slightly less enthusiasm, Byron
's Childe Harold.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
179
Education
Annie Tinsley
She was also taught, perhaps between schools, by her father. By the age of eleven she had devoured the poetry of the British Classics from Chaucer
to Beattie
,
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
9
as well as Burns
,...
Education
Florence Dixie
Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...
Family and Intimate relationships
Doreen Wallace
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
—
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
xxiii
though...
Family and Intimate relationships
Susan Ferrier
The first important position of James Ferrier
, SF
's father, was as Writer to the Signet. Later he was appointed Principal Clerk of Session and became estate manager to the Duke of Argyll
...
Family and Intimate relationships
Eglinton Wallace
Her next elder sister, Jane
, is rumoured to have been a wild child, hitching a ride in the street on passing pigs and carts; she lost a finger by getting it trapped in a...
Family and Intimate relationships
Maria Barrell
Her husband was the elder James Mackittrick Adair (1728-1801). He had practised as a physician in Antigua and was one of the many enemies of Philip Thicknesse
. His first wife was named Anne Barter...
Family and Intimate relationships
Susan Ferrier
SF
's sister Jane was considered the beauty of the family. Robert Burns
, after meeting her in the winter of 1786-87, addressed a poem to her (To Miss Ferrier). She later became...
Family and Intimate relationships
Eglinton Wallace
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.
“The Burns Encyclopedia”. Burns Country.
It is not...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Ann Browne
James Gray's father had been a friend of Burns
, and his namesake James Gray
the Ettrick Shepherd (a Scottish poet who died in 1830) was his uncle. MAB
wrote a poem about listening to...
Family and Intimate relationships
Catherine Carswell
CC
's mother, Mary Anne (Lewis) Macfarlane
, was descended from a Scottish Enlightenment engineering pioneer who was also a friend of Robert Burns
.
Pilditch, Jan. Catherine Carswell. A Biography. John Donald, 2007.
1
She was deeply religious, and according to CCmade...
Timeline
31 July 1786
Robert Burns
published his Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect at Kilmarnock in Ayrshire in an edition of 612 copies.
1 September 1810-24 August 1811
James Hogg
, the Ettrick Shepherd, anonymously published his Edinburghjournal, the Spy.
1813
The Shetland poetMargaret Chalmers
(born at Lerwick in 1858 and left in poverty with her sisters and aged mother after the death of their brother William at the battle of Trafalgar) published her Poems...
23 November 1869
The Cutty Sark, most famous and speedy of the British tea clippers, was launched.
2 August 1898
The first recording sessions took place in a London basement at 31 Maiden Lane; gramophones had been shipped to Europe from Eldridge Johnson
manufacturers (Camden, New Jersey) to coincide with this event.
25 February 1914
Ethel Moorhead
, a Dundee suffragist renowned for daring acts of militancy, was released from Calton Gaol in Edinburgh after forcible feeding (the first of suffragists in Scotland) gave her double pneumonia.
Texts
Burns, Robert. “Introduction and Chronology”. Complete Works, edited by James A. Mackay, Official Bicentenary Edition, Alloway Publishing, 1986, pp. 9-34.
Burns, Robert. Letters. Editors Ferguson, J. De Lancey and G. Ross Roy, Clarendon Press, 1985.
Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898. http://BARD, http://BARD.
Burns, Robert. The Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns. Editor Donaldson, Desmond, E. P. Publishing, 1973.
Burns, Robert. The Letters of Robert Burns. Editor Ferguson, J. De Lancey, Clarendon Press, 1931.
Burns, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Burns. Editors Henley, William Ernest and Thomas F. Henderson, Caxton , 1897.