Robert Burns

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 , as well as Burns ,...

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. It is not...

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...

CC 's mother, Mary Anne (Lewis) Macfarlane , was descended from a Scottish Enlightenment engineering pioneer who was also a friend of Robert Burns . She was deeply religious, and according to CCmade...

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.

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 .

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...

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 ...

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 —though...