Cambridge University Press

Robert Burns

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796

Standard Name: Burns, Robert

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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...
Literary responses	Carolina Oliphant Lady Nairne	Some nineteenth-century commentators made high claims for COLN , ranking her close to Burns himself (though Burns scholars have found it hard to forgive her unacted-on intention of producing a bowdlerised edition of Burns). She...
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...
Literary responses	Eliza Cook	Under this misapprehension about their origin, readers singled out for praise the originality of the voice, energy of the style, and optimism of the tone, and likened the poems to those of Robert Burns . Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. 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, 1990. Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland, 1986. 271
Literary responses	Florence Dixie	This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be...
Material Conditions of Writing	Helen Mathers	Running her magazine did not keep HM from other projects. She published two single-authored novels in 1891 (My Jo, John—titled from another well-known song by Burns —and The Mystery of No. 13)...
names	Elizabeth Grant	BirthName: Elizabeth Grant Nickname: of Rothiemurchus Married: Smith Pseudonym: A Lady As was the usual practice in Victorian periodicals, her writings for magazines generally appeared without her name, or sometimes as By a Lady...
Occupation	Janet Little	Mrs Dunlop (mother-in-law of the writer Eglinton, Lady Wallace) was an important patron of Robert Burns and corresponded with him extensively. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, 1843 - 1921, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, 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, 1990. JL therefore found herself working in a household with literary connections.
Author summary	Maria Riddell	MR was a talented amateur poet, diarist, letter-writer, and writer for children during the Romantic period. She published in 1788 a travel book about the Caribbean which is remarkable for its scientific observation, a critical...
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...
Publishing	Catherine Carswell	Parts of CC 's critical biography The Life of Robert Burns (published this month and dedicated to her husband, Donald Carswell , and to D. H. Lawrence ) were serialised in the GlasgowDaily Record...
Publishing	Maria Riddell	Burns returned the loan of MR 's commonplace-book, which he had read, he said, with much pleasure, qtd. in MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975. 52 just after the mysterious event which gave serious offence on both sides, and was to keep them...
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, 1984. 464, 572 Burns helped to drum up subscribers, who numbered in the end...
Publishing	Maria Riddell	MR 's perceptive and generous analysis and appreciation of Burns 's character and writings appeared anonymously in the Dumfries Weekly Journal only a fortnight after his death. Brown, Hilton. There Was a Lad. An Essay on Robert Burns. Hamish Hamilton, 1949. 42 MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975. 82
Publishing	Mrs Alexander	MA 's best-known novel, The Wooing O't, titled from a song by Robert Burns , appeared in instalments in Temple Bar; in book form it appeared on 11 September 1873 under her new...

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