Robert Burns

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. It is not...

James Gray's father had been a friend of Burns , and his namesake James Gray the Ettrick Shepherd (a Scottish poet who died in 1830) was his uncle. MAB wrote a poem about listening to...

CC 's mother, Mary Anne (Lewis) Macfarlane , was descended from a Scottish Enlightenment engineering pioneer who was also a friend of Robert Burns . She was deeply religious, and according to CCmade...

As a friend rather than a lover, Burns was crucially helpful to MR . He first put her in touch with the printer, intellectual, and naturalist William Smellie , who published her work and became...

HC 's friends included the writers Maria Riddell and Robert Burns (as well as the former's brother-in-law Robert Riddell ). She corresponded with Burns, and praised his work in high terms.

The Christmas rupture with Burns seems to have taken effect only gradually. After the key event Burns sent MR a copy of Werther (Goethe 's novel, probably in English translation) as well as returning...

During the last months of Burns 's life, Riddell was again sending him her verses to read. He dined at her house, though too weak to walk, on 5 July 1796, and asked her sardonically...

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...

AG visited Jean Burns , the widow of Robert , in Dumfries.

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.

She wrote that some of my most steady friends thro' Life were my childhood companions, girls she had been at school with. Besides Ramsay (whom, too, she had known since her girlhood), Burns

Burns reflected the influence of Cockburn's I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling in one of his earliest compositions, I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing (first published in 1788).Walter Scott

Its engaging heroine, Maggie Grey, combines the names of both lovers in Burns 's well-known song, but unlike Burns's Maggie she marries up, her eventual husband, Geoffrey Trafford, being the cousin of an earl. She...

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...

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...