John Leyden

AB seems to have been emotionally involved with her literary friend John Leyden . He later reported to Erskine that for some months before he left Scotland for India in the year of her mother's...

Family tradition has it that John Leyden , poet and orientalist, was in love with her. While she left no surviving expression of interest in Leyden, she did mention a romantic interest in John Philpot Curran

A friend who was crucial in AB 's career was Robert Anderson , editor of a famous poetry anthology and of the Edinburgh Magazine. Other important friends were John Leyden (linguist, poet, and...

The volume was well reviewed, and poems were reprinted in two magazines. Literary commentators like Thomas Park , Joseph Cooper Walker , and Joseph Martin , assured Robert Anderson of their admiration.

The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott , John Leyden , and William Wordsworth .The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...

AB was instrumental in securing the papers of John Leyden (linguist, poet, and friend of Walter Scott , with whom she had had some kind of close relationship) for the use of James Morton ...