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Textual Production | Mary Lamb | In her earliest extant letter, to Sarah Stoddart
, Mary Lamb
remarked (quite unfairly to herself): I am always a miserable letter writer, and I feel the want, in writing to a new friend of... |
Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | |
Textual Production | Lesley Storm | LS
returned to her Scottish roots in her historical-biographical play Three Goose Quills and a Knife, a piece that dramatises the adult life of Robert Burns
from his twenties to his death at the... |
Textual Production | Janet Little | Frances Anna Dunlop
, her employer, sent a specimen of JL
's poetry to Robert Burns
. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, http://BARD. 185, 203-4 |
Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | The title quotation from Robert Burns
describes the writer almost as a spy on society; it continues, And faith he'll prent it. Mitchison, Naomi. Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945. Editor Sheridan, Dorothy, Oxford University Press. 5 |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
had agreed to write for anthologist George Thomson
(the successor to Burns
in this work) about twenty original or adapted poems to go to Scottish, Irish, or Welsh tunes. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 8-9 and n31 |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | She thus made part of the Scottish ballad revival forwarded by individuals of several generations including Allan Ramsay
, Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw
, Jean Elliott
, Alison Cockburn
, her aunt Anne Hunter
, Burns |
Textual Production | Helen Craik | HC
, in her late thirties, penned her first work which is known to survive: a poem written in Robert Burns
's copy of his Poems published at Edinburgh. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32. 229n56 |
Textual Production | Sophie Veitch | With Duncan Moray, Farmer (a three-volume novel published both at London and at Paisley in Scotland in early 1890), OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. 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. The early date comes from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Janet Little | JL
tells Burns
she is somewhat in love with the Muses, and warmly celebrates his achievements in verse. Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, pp. 78-91. 79 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Craik | In this poem HC
celebrates Burns
's native genius, gay, unique, and strong, and contrasts his independence and inborn merit with rank and riches. Burns, Robert. The Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns. Editor Donaldson, Desmond, E. P. Publishing. prelims |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Felicia Hemans | The volume declared itself as juvenilia by noting at the outset that the poems had been composed between the ages of eight and thirteen, and appending to some of them the ages at which they... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Riddell | MR
calls Burns
's death an irreparable loss to the public, MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press. 158 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isa Craig | As befits an entry in a contest of this kind, the poem rings with a celebratory and worshipful tone. It portrays Burns
as a peasant-king and poet-martyr whose verse speaks across borders to the entire... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bessie Rayner Parkes | This volume, like those BRP
had already published, also covers a range of topics including the natural world, religious questions, Robert Burns
, and places like Italy and Algiers. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 188-9 |
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