“The Burns Encyclopedia”. Burns Country.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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. |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | That year HMW
was introduced by Dr John Moore
to Burns
, with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers
(in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi
, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. The year... |
Education | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | Again one of Yearsley's most perceptive readers was Anna Seward
, who wrote to Helen Maria Williams
on Christmas Day 1787 that Yearsley and Burns
were both miracles . . . . Perhaps she has... |
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