Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
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|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Irish critic Colm Tóibín
, who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns
, Wordsworth
... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Cook | Under this misapprehension about their origin, readers singled out for praise the originality of the voice, energy of the style, and optimism of the tone, and likened the poems to those of Robert Burns
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland. 271 |
| Literary responses | Janet Little | Frances Anna Dunlop
made her final mention of JL
in her correspondence with Burns
: a fierce reproof for his contemptuous response to Little's Poetical Works. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, http://BARD. 378-81 |
| Literary responses | Florence Dixie | This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Mathers | Running her magazine did not keep HM
from other projects. She published two single-authored novels in 1891 (My Jo, John—titled from another well-known song by Burns
—and The Mystery of No. 13)... |
| Occupation | Janet Little | Mrs Dunlop (mother-in-law of the writer Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, http://BARD. xxiii Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Author summary | Maria Riddell | MR
was a talented amateur poet, diarist, letter-writer, and writer for children during the Romantic period. She published in 1788 a travel book about the Caribbean which is remarkable for its scientific observation, a critical... |
| Publishing | Janet Little | She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell
, who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication. Brady, Frank. James Boswell, the Later Years, 1769-1795. Heinemann. 464, 572 |
| Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
published her Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade. (The bill was that of Sir William Dolben
.) She sent a copies of her poem to Robert Burns
(who... |
| Publishing | Caroline Norton | In 1859, the centenary of Robert Burns
's birth, CN
published in the Daily Scotsman, and independently as an 8-page pamphlet, verses on the poet. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Publishing | Catherine Carswell | Parts of CC
's critical biography The Life of Robert Burns (published this month and dedicated to her husband, Donald Carswell
, and to D. H. Lawrence
) were serialised in the GlasgowDaily Record... |
| Publishing | Maria Riddell | Burns
returned the loan of MR
's commonplace-book, which he had read, he said, with much pleasure, MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press. 52 |
| Publishing | Mrs Alexander | MA
's best-known novel, The Wooing O't, titled from a song by Robert Burns
, appeared in instalments in Temple Bar; in book form it appeared on 11 September 1873 under her new... |
| Publishing | Maria Riddell | MR
's perceptive and generous analysis and appreciation of Burns
's character and writings appeared anonymously in the Dumfries Weekly Journal only a fortnight after his death. Brown, Hilton. There Was a Lad. An Essay on Robert Burns. Hamish Hamilton. 42 MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press. 82 |
| Reception | Isa Craig | IC
was awarded first prize of fifty guineas at the Burns Centenary Festival for her Ode on Burns
. Some sources give the year of this event wrongly. Parkes, Bessie Rayner. “Isa Craig and the Prize Poem on Burns”. English Woman’s Journal, Vol. 2 , No. 12, pp. 417-20. 417-18 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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