“The Burns Encyclopedia”. Burns Country.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Education | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
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... |
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. |
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. xxiii |
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... |
Textual Production | Ethel Lilian Voynich | These poems, wrote Voynich, were immortal lyrics hidden away from Western Europe in a minor Slavonic idiom between Russian, Servian, and Polish. She called Shevenko the Robert Burns
of his own region, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 517 (7 December 1911): 509 |
Leisure and Society | Queen Victoria | Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson
, Sir Walter Scott
, George Eliot
(whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin. 116 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophie Veitch | This well-characterized and engaging novel puts forward the idea that passion is necessary although dangerous if uncontrolled: an idea anticipating Veitch's later sensation novel The Dean's Daughter. The story is set at a town... |
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. |
Education | Annie Tinsley | |
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. |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The title-page quotes Burns
and Scott
. The preface remarks that books based on female impressions of national manners and moral character have succeeded in the past. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. prelims iv |
Timeline
31 July 1786: Robert Burns published his Poems, Chiefly...
Writing climate item
31 July 1786
Robert Burns
published his Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect at Kilmarnock in Ayrshire in an edition of 612 copies.
1 September 1810-24 August 1811: James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, anonymously...
Writing climate item
1 September 1810-24 August 1811
1813: The Shetland poet Margaret Chalmers (born...
Women writers item
1813
The Shetland poetMargaret Chalmers
(born at Lerwick in 1858 and left in poverty with her sisters and aged mother after the death of their brother William at the battle of Trafalgar) published her Poems...
23 November 1869: The Cutty Sark, most famous and speedy of...
National or international item
23 November 1869
The Cutty Sark, most famous and speedy of the British tea clippers, was launched.
2 August 1898: The first recording sessions took place in...
Building item
2 August 1898
The first recording sessions took place in a London basement at 31 Maiden Lane; gramophones had been shipped to Europe from Eldridge Johnson
manufacturers (Camden, New Jersey) to coincide with this event.
25 February 1914: Ethel Moorhead, a Dundee suffragist renowned...
National or international item
25 February 1914
Ethel Moorhead
, a Dundee suffragist renowned for daring acts of militancy, was released from Calton Gaol in Edinburgh after forcible feeding (the first of suffragists in Scotland) gave her double pneumonia.
Texts
Burns, Robert. “Introduction and Chronology”. Complete Works, edited by James A. Mackay, Official Bicentenary Edition, Alloway Publishing, 1986, pp. 9-34.
Burns, Robert. Letters. Editors Ferguson, J. De Lancey and G. Ross Roy, Clarendon Press, 1985.
Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, http://BARD.
Burns, Robert. The Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns. Editor Donaldson, Desmond, E. P. Publishing, 1973.
Burns, Robert. The Letters of Robert Burns. Editor Ferguson, J. De Lancey, Clarendon Press, 1931.
Burns, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Burns. Editors Henley, William Ernest and Thomas F. Henderson, Caxton , 1897.