In the public mind MR
is remembered primarily as a friend of Robert Burns
. She first met him in late 1791. They soon developed a free-and-easy, bantering, affectionate correspondence. It was not exclusively literary...
Literary responses
Maria Riddell
W. E. Henley
called this analysis the best thing written of him by a contemporary critic.
qtd. in
Ross, John Dawson. Who’s Who in Burns. E. Mackay, 1927.
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In 1949 Hilton Brown
, who felt it was to her lasting credit
Brown, Hilton. There Was a Lad. An Essay on Robert Burns. Hamish Hamilton, 1949.
