Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, pp. 78-91.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | The Recitations (poems in which the speaking voice is crucial, most of them sharply Scots-vernacular comments on sexual or gender relations) include the title piece, Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990. This laments (in a nice... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | The play was written for the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company
, who first performed it in Edinburgh on 24 January 1986. Lochhead surprised herself with her use of the Scots language: my grandmother's .... |
| Reception | Liz Lochhead | LL
was the subject of two National Book League
pamphlets, in 1978 and again in 1986. She was one of the first four twentieth-century Scottish poets (of a total of twelve) whose busts were placed... |
| Textual Features | Janet Little | She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson
as a symbol of the tyrant-critic... |
| Literary responses | Janet Little | Dunlop
wrote, Methinks I hear you ask me with an air that made me feel as I had got a slap in the face, if you must read all the few lines I had pointed... |
| Friends, Associates | Janet Little | JL
tried to initiate a correspondence with Robert Burns
. At this date he was widely known by his nickname of the ploughman poet, and Little was frankly partial to him because of his class. Ferguson, Moira. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender. State University of New York Press. 92, 95 |
| Reception | Janet Little | Frances Anna Dunlop
wrote to Robert Burns
her earliest surviving comment on JL
's poetry: Dunlop clearly takes her seriously as a poet but confesses to disliking her blank verse. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, http://BARD. 126-7 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Janet Little | In her letter to Burns, Mrs Dunlop emphasises JL
's intellect rather than her appearance: Her outside promises nothing; her mind only bursts forth on paper. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, http://BARD. 185 |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Janet Little | For more than four years, from December 1788 to March 1793, Frances Anna Dunlop
peppered her letters to Burns
with comments about JL
's poetry, and sought to elicit criticism in return. When Burns first... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns
; the second quotes Swift
denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for... |
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