Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae.
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Textual Production | Eleanor Farjeon | |
Textual Production | Helen Craik | HC
was said after her death to have published writings in French, but these have not been traced. Some of her manuscripts are in private hands. Burns
's two surviving letters to her are in... |
Textual Production | Emily Gerard | At eleven or twelve EG
began to scribble in secret—poetry of course; for what youthful writer at that stage of his or her existence would stoop to prose! Most of her poems were elegies on... |
Textual Production | Ellen Johnston | Her work garnered considerable response, including many poems of praise and compliment which were printed alongside her own in her later collection. These ranged from a verse proposal of marriage to a poetic tribute asserting... |
Textual Production | Anna Gordon | This best-known and most widely sung of all Scots songs dates from, at latest, the beginning of the eighteenth century. Many different writers turned their hand to new versions of it, including Burns
, whose... |
Textual Production | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
's first novel, A New-England Tale; or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners, was licensed: it appeared anonymously that year, with a title-page stanza from Robert Burns
, dedicated to Maria Edgeworth
. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New-England Tale. Bliss and White. prelims Damon-Bach, Lucinda L., and Victoria Clements, editors. “Editorial Materials”. Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, Northeastern University Press, p. various pages. xxxv |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | |
Textual Production | Mary Bryan | It was dedicated to James Bedingfield
, and the title page gave her name along with a quotation from Burns
. |
Textual Production | Isabel Pagan | Not all IP
's writing went into her printed volume. She was believed to be the author of two songs which became popular: Crook and Plaid and (the most famous among her works) Ca' the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | AG
's Introductory Verses, addressed to dead and living friends, begin: Go, artless records of a life obscure, and liken herself to the nightingale singing with a thorn in her breast. Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir. 17-18 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bessie Rayner Parkes | This volume, like those BRP
had already published, also covers a range of topics including the natural world, religious questions, Robert Burns
, and places like Italy and Algiers. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 188-9 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Whateley Darwall | But most poems in this volume are occasional, more or less public. MWD
wrote about buildings: the fake-medieval Hockley Abbey near Birmingham and the genuine medieval Kenilworth Castle. She wrote about Scotland: ballads... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | The poems include epistles, translations from Gaelic, and occasional poetry including a piece on the death of Burns
. Apart from calling herself the rural muse, Grant also emphasises her Scottish identity: her characteristic... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christian Milne | Her spirited preface outspokenly addresses the handicaps confronting lower-class writers, especially women. She observes that her fellow labouring-class poets, Burns
and Bloomfield
, hard though they worked, did not have a woman's cares. She writes... |
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