William Wallace

Their mother, when she was widowed, moved her family to Edinburgh in 1780, partly for the sake of the future advantage of a good education at a moderate expense. In Scotland, wrote JP later, a...

DW was proud of her forebears, who included not only the Scottish national hero William Wallace but also Frances Dunlop (friend of Robert Burns and patron of the labouring-class poet Janet Little —though...

JWC 's mother, Grace Welsh , had the same birth and married names; yet she was no relation of her husband. Her family considered themselves descendants of the Scots national hero William Wallace .

The Annual Register reported the wedding as on 14 August 1772. With the baronetcy the new Sir Thomas Wallace inherited the estate of Craigie in Ayrshire, with an ancient, magnificent, ruined castle, a...

Margaret Holford the younger scored her greatest success with her anonymous: Wallace , or, The Fight of Falkirk, a historical verse romance inspired by Walter Scott 's Marmion, 1808.

JP 's original introduction (to which she later added further memories of colourful Scots characters from her childhood in Edinburgh) mentions exhaustive consultation of historians, and makes no direct allusion to the verse romance...

FH 's poem The Meeting of Wallace and Bruce on the Banks of the Carron, which won a prize of £50, appeared in Blackwood's. It was later printed separately as Wallace's Invocation to Bruce, A Poem.

EW dated the postscript to her Letter from Lady W-ll-ce, to Captain —, of which a second edition appeared later the same year as Letter from Lady Wallace, to Capt. William Wallace aid de...

JP scored another great success with a new historical novel, The Scottish Chiefs, which features particularly the thirteenth-century patriot William Wallace .

Fifty years after her death, Routledge printed two early Tales from British History by Grace Aguilar : Macintosh, the Highland Chief, a Tale of the Civil War, and Edmund , the Exiled Prince, and...

By 1833 she had also finished the two books which were eventually published in 1908 as Tales from British History, individually titled Macintosh, the Highland Chief, a Tale of the Civil War, and...

After JB 's visit to Scotland, she published Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters, which included poems on William Wallace and the woman she calls Lady Griseld Baillie .

EW later said that she actually wrote this text of advice on both moral conduct and public affairs during the year 1791. Whereas the second edition, published by June, was put out by Debrett (a...

It was daring for a woman to claim the public role of adviser to a military man, even when he was a son newly entered on the great stage of life. She begins with...

There is considerable tension in EJ 's social vision, in part because she lacked literary models in which a feminist and proletarian stance might be articulated. Thus while some poems represent the factory as a...