Robert Burns

In this month Burns wrote to her about correcting and revising her manuscript.

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

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...

FB began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. She continued to write throughout her childhood...

JH composed from a young age; between the ages of seventeen and nineteen she produced about twenty pieces of religious poetry. She was strongly influenced by her reading of the Bible, by the...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

In this year both Susanna Blamire (visiting there) and Robert Burns were writing in Perthshire. This, too, was the year that Carolina Oliphant's father died, and it has been suggested that grief and a...

The preface expresses admiration for both Burns and George Dyer . ABC stresses her lack of education (which, critic Richard C. Sha argues, associates herself with lower-class writers like William Blake and Henry Kirke White

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. She further encouraged JL to correspond with Burns...

The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic] about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. The next epigraph comes from Burns

Original poems (sonnets, songs, ballads, occasional pieces) as well as more translations (from Latin, represented by Horace , as well as from Italian) occupy the latter part of volume two. Many of the occasional poems...

The dream poems combine the qualities of horror and of nursery-rhyme. The second one begins, Mr Oddy / Met a body / Hanging from a tree, which dreadfully alters the tone of Robert Burns

ESG quotes a stanza from Burns 's A Prayer in the Prospect of Death on her title-page, and says she can offer her reader no ghosts or artificial terrors. She takes up...

The novel combines domestic humour and social satire. The courtship of Eglantine Fortescue and the young officer Augustus Fitzroy is almost overshadowed by the broad-brush picture of their families and friends. Eglantine incurs disapproval first...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson