Robert Burns

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Standard Name: Burns, Robert

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Textual Production E. M. Delafield
In 1937, Macmillan published selections in volume form under the same title, which is adapted from one of EMD 's favourite poems, Robert Burns 's To a Louse.
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne.
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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...
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
The title quotation from Robert Burns describes the writer almost as a spy on society; it continues, And faith he'll prent it.
Mitchison, Naomi. Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945. Editor Sheridan, Dorothy, Oxford University Press.
5
NM kept writing through difficult home front conditions, mostly at Carradale House...
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
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
JB had agreed to write for anthologist George Thomson (the successor to Burns in this work) about twenty original or adapted poems to go to Scottish, Irish, or Welsh tunes.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25.
8-9 and n31
Textual Production Helen Craik
HC , in her late thirties, penned her first work which is known to survive: a poem written in Robert Burns 's copy of his Poems published at Edinburgh.
Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32.
229n56
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.
SV reverted to a Scottish setting...
Textual Production Joanna Baillie
She thus made part of the Scottish ballad revival forwarded by individuals of several generations including Allan Ramsay , Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw , Jean Elliott , Alison Cockburn , her aunt Anne Hunter , Burns
Textual Production Helen Craik
HC wrote a ten-line poem in praise of Burns , which is copied at the head of his Glenriddell Manuscript (below the title, before his dated preface).
Burns, Robert. The Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns. Editor Donaldson, Desmond, E. P. Publishing.
prelims
Textual Production Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
It was very generally ascribed to Burns ; Carolina Nairne heard this ascription made in her presence, but she said she never answered.
McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol.
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, No. 2/3, pp. 253-87.
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Textual Production Janet Hamilton
Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence...
Textual Production Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee
McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol.
47
, No. 2/3, pp. 253-87.
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The anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
EF kept up her talent for pastiche. In 1915 she produced versions of It's a long way to Tipperary in the respectives styles of Whitman , Burns , Rossetti , Herrick , Swinburne , and Tom Moore .
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae.
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Textual Production Mary Hays
The publisher was Knott . The title-page quotes Socrates and Burns . The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney . MH 's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays.
Hays, Mary. Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous. T. Knott.
prelims
Feminist Companion Archive.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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

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