Jamie Reid Baxter

Standard Name: Baxter, Jamie Reid

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names Elizabeth Melvill
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Melvill
    She signed her own name this way. The Feminist Companion, British Library Catalogue, and Early English Books Online spell her name Melvill, while the old and new Dictionary of...
Publishing Elizabeth Melvill
Jamie Reid Baxter published through Solsequium of Edinburgh a new selected edition, Poems of Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: drawing on the discovery of twenty-nine previously unknown, unpublished poems hidden among sermons by Robert Bruce .
Laroche, Rebecca. “Elizabeth Melville and Her Friends: Seeing ‘Ane Godlie Dreame’ through Political Lenses”. CLIO, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 277-95.
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Reception Elizabeth Melvill
EM 's literary reputation has been burgeoning. In June 2014 her writing was commemorated with an inscribed flagstone at Makars' Court in Edinburgh, unveiled by Jamie Reid Baxter and Germaine Greer . The stone...
Textual Features Elizabeth Melvill
Jamie Reid Baxter , who identified these poems, writes that they express ungendered spiritual experience; they explore the darkness, pain and downright terror of God's apparent absence, proclaim the need to fight on in faith...
Textual Production Elizabeth Melvill
This poem was included in the same early nineteenth-century anthology, Early Metrical Tales, edited by David Laing , 1826, along with Ane Godlie Dreame.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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A misreading in the final lines was not...

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Baxter, Jamie Reid. “Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: new light from Fife”. The Innes Review, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 38-77.