Lady Anne Barnard
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Standard Name: Barnard, Lady Anne
Birth Name: Anne Lindsay
Styled: Lady Anne Lindsay
Married Name: Lady Anne Barnard
Indexed Name: Lady Anne Barnard
LAB
, in her twenties a notable contributor to the Scots ballad revival, became during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a memoirist, political letter-writer, diarist, and travel-writer, as well as a fine illustrator.
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Lilian Bowes Lyon | She was born on her father's side into the family of one eighteenth-century writer, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
, and on her mother's (collaterally) into that of another, Lady Anne Barnard
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | These uncles gave her at least two remarkable aunts by marriage: James's wife was Henrietta (born Cummyng or Cumming)
, whose life was written by Isabella Kelly
, and Alexander's wife was Margaret (later Bland Burges |
Friends, Associates | Alison Cockburn | She wrote that some of my most steady friends thro' Life were my childhood companions, girls she had been at school with. Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas, 1900. 2 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | EIS
says that her early friendship with Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
was inherited, developing from the friendship between their parents, Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. 325-6 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Anna Maria Porter |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Kelly | Her friends or perhaps patrons included General Henry Seymour Conway
(father of the writer-sculptor Anne Damer
) and his whole family. Kelly, Isabella. A Collection of Poems and Fables. Richardson, 1794. 39-40 |
Literary responses | Susanna Blamire | In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Elliot | LCE
received little critical attention either during or after her lifetime. The Athenæum obituary by Theodore Watts
described her as perhaps the latest noticeable addition to that bright roll of female poets of which Scotland... |
Textual Features | Isabella Kelly | IK
tells with decorous energy the story of a remarkable woman. Henrietta Fordyce
(née Cummyng), whom IK
had known well in her youth, was brought up with Lady Anne Barnard
. IK
gives a rather... |
Textual Production | Alison Cockburn | AC
addressed the earliest letter in her later printed collection (which is partly in verse) to Henrietta Cumming or Cummings (later Fordyce)
, who was governess to Lady Anne Barnard
and her sisters, and later... |
Textual Production | Alison Cockburn | Like other Scotswomen of the gentry class whose names are associated with the eighteenth-century ballad revival, AC
frequently marked occasions in her circle with personal and occasional poems. Only a small proportion of her output... |
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, 1 June–30 Nov. 2006, pp. 253-87. 258 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Tytler | The book is prefaced by a glossary which informs the reader that Edinburgh is nicknamed Auld Reekie, that to gowl is to weep noisily, to rug and rive is to carry off by violence... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
Timeline
By 26 October 1972: Helen Gardner edited The New Oxford Book...
Writing climate item
By 26 October 1972
Helen Gardner
edited The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950, designed to update and replace Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
's Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(26 October 1972): 11
Texts
Barnard, Lady Anne. “Auld Robin Gray”. Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, edited by David Herd, 2nd ed., Vol.
2
, J. Dickson and C. Elliot, 1776, pp. 196-7. Barnard, Lady Anne. Auld Robin Gray. Editor Scott, Sir Walter, J. Ballantyne, 1825.