Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Gillett, EricEditor , Faber and Faber, 1945.
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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... |
Anthologization | Maria Riddell | 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... |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
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. Gillett, EricEditor , Faber and Faber, 1945. 179 |
Education | Annie Tinsley | |
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... |
Education | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emma Tennant | ET
's family tree can be traced back to a James Tennant
who was a friend of Robert Burns
. Their modern wealth, however, came from the manufacture of bleach during the Victorian era. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Riddell | MR
's brother-in-law Robert Riddell of Glenriddell
, who lived at Friar's Carse in Dumfries, was to shape her life through his literary antiquarianism and especially through his friendship with Robert Burns
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Lindsay, Maurice. The Burns Encyclopedia. St Martin’s Press, 1980. 301 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Riddell | In the public mind MR
is remembered primarily as a friend of Robert Burns
. She first met him in late 1791. They soon developed a free-and-easy, bantering, affectionate correspondence. It was not exclusively literary... |
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 |
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... |