With encouragement from her friends, JL
published her collected Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid by subscription at Ayr in Scotland; she dedicated it to the eleven-year-old Flora, Countess of Loudoun
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Paterson, James. “Janet Little, the Scottish Milkmaid”. The Contemporaries of Burns, edited by James Paterson, AMS Press, 1976, pp. 78-91.
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Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, 1843 - 1921, Hodder and Stoughton, 1898, http://BARD.
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Textual Features
Janet Little
JL
's volume opens with an address to the young Countess of Loudoun
, then one to the Public, then others to Hope, Happiness, and so on. She includes poems of love and courtship, pastorals...