Robert Burns

This edition brings together the duchess's work with that of others including Burns . OCLC records only a single extant copy, at the University of British Columbia . Saint Gothard would certainly have appeared in...

In 1793 Burns was soliciting from MR a song for the antiquarian anthologist George Thomson (presumably for A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, which began publication this year). In summer 1795 she sent...

Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...

She was also taught, perhaps between schools, by her father. By the age of eleven she had devoured the poetry of the British Classics from Chaucer to Beattie , as well as Burns ,...

Sarah Josepha Buell (later SJH ) was taught at home by her mother, with her father and her brother Horatio (then a law student) joining in for such higher branches of learning as writing, Latin...

EH continued learning throughout her life. She borrowed books whenever an opportunity arose. She discovered Burns and took him to her heart, and later, with slightly less enthusiasm, Byron 's Childe Harold.

For DW , the scanty education deemed suitable for females in the English provinces at this time was reinforced first by reading poetry, particularly Burns , with her brother William . Later she studied French...

MR 's brother-in-law Robert Riddell of Glenriddell , who lived at Friar's Carse in Dumfries, was to shape her life through his literary antiquarianism and especially through his friendship with Robert Burns .

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...

ET 's family tree can be traced back to a James Tennant who was a friend of Robert Burns . Their modern wealth, however, came from the manufacture of bleach during the Victorian era.

The first important position of James Ferrier , SF 's father, was as Writer to the Signet. Later he was appointed Principal Clerk of Session and became estate manager to the Duke of Argyll ...

Her husband was the elder James Mackittrick Adair (1728-1801). He had practised as a physician in Antigua and was one of the many enemies of Philip Thicknesse . His first wife was named Anne Barter...

SF 's sister Jane was considered the beauty of the family. Robert Burns , after meeting her in the winter of 1786-87, addressed a poem to her (To Miss Ferrier). She later became...

James Gray's father had been a friend of Burns , and his namesake James Gray the Ettrick Shepherd (a Scottish poet who died in 1830) was his uncle. MAB wrote a poem about listening to...

Her next elder sister, Jane , is rumoured to have been a wild child, hitching a ride in the street on passing pigs and carts; she lost a finger by getting it trapped in a...