Robert Burns

Frances Anna Dunlop , her employer, sent a specimen of JL 's poetry to Robert Burns .

The title quotation from Robert Burns describes the writer almost as a spy on society; it continues, And faith he'll prent it.NM kept writing through difficult home front conditions, mostly at Carradale House...

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...

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...

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 .

It was very generally ascribed to Burns ; Carolina Nairne heard this ascription made in her presence, but she said she never answered.

It was dedicated to James Bedingfield , and the title page gave her name along with a quotation from Burns .

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...

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. Mary Wollstonecraft

The play's title comes from well-known lines in Robert Burns 's poem To a Mouse about plans going haywire (as does John Steinbeck 's better-known novella Of Mice and Men, 1937).

Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committeeThe anthology came out in six volumes, printing the music along with the words of its songs; its editor was the greatest...

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...

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. The poems...

Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson

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...