Walter, who was eight years her senior, is called by a leading Burns scholar dissolute and empty-headed.
Lindsay, Maurice. The Burns Encyclopedia. Third, revised and enlarged, St Martin’s Press, 1980.
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Three years into her marriage Maria wrote at some length, but obscurely, about the remarkable achievements brought...
Family and Intimate relationships
Maria Riddell
Her daughter, Anna Maria
, married a naval officer, Charles Montagu Walker
, and had eight children. Most of her inheritance vanished in mortgages and contested ownership. One of MR
's grandsons took an interest...
Textual Production
Maria Riddell
MR
was keeping a journal by early 1788, the date of her first departure for the Caribbean. In 1914 a copy of her manuscript diary for the period January 1797 to October 1803 (covering her...
Wealth and Poverty
Maria Riddell
In October this year, presumably in a precarious state of health, MR
made her will. She sounds like an efficient businesswoman as she details the moneys that ought to come to her daughter, Anna Maria
