Robert Burns

She wrote that some of my most steady friends thro' Life were my childhood companions, girls she had been at school with. Besides Ramsay (whom, too, she had known since her girlhood), Burns

Burns reflected the influence of Cockburn's I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling in one of his earliest compositions, I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing (first published in 1788).Walter Scott

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...

CC 's mother, Mary Anne (Lewis) Macfarlane , was descended from a Scottish Enlightenment engineering pioneer who was also a friend of Robert Burns . She was deeply religious, and according to CCmade...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

James Gray's father had been a friend of Burns , and his namesake James Gray the Ettrick Shepherd (a Scottish poet who died in 1830) was his uncle. MAB wrote a poem about listening to...

In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...

Her husband was the elder James Mackittrick Adair (1728-1801). He had practised as a physician in Antigua and was one of the many enemies of Philip Thicknesse . His first wife was named Anne Barter...

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...

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.