Robert Burns

A central figure in both Irish and English literary circles as well as in Irish politics, DS sought, through writing ballads, to recuperate the lost tradition of Irish balladry and folklore while simultaneously addressing the...

Critic Kirsteen McCue has examined the issued involved in the dispute over whether Burns or Pagan was the author of the song, and over which was the first to convey it to print.

For more than four years, from December 1788 to March 1793, Frances Anna Dunlop peppered her letters to Burns with comments about JL 's poetry, and sought to elicit criticism in return. When Burns first...

Some nineteenth-century commentators made high claims for COLN , ranking her close to Burns himself (though Burns scholars have found it hard to forgive her unacted-on intention of producing a bowdlerised edition of Burns). She...

AH was estimated to be one of the most widely-known women poets of her time. After centuries of neglect, critic Isobel Armstrong has pointed out that AH was admired by Burns and helped...

Running her magazine did not keep HM from other projects. She published two single-authored novels in 1891 (My Jo, John—titled from another well-known song by Burns —and The Mystery of No. 13)...

Mrs Dunlop (mother-in-law of the writer Eglinton, Lady Wallace) was an important patron of Robert Burns and corresponded with him extensively.JL therefore found herself working in a household with literary connections.

MR was a talented amateur poet, diarist, letter-writer, and writer for children during the Romantic period. She published in 1788 a travel book about the Caribbean which is remarkable for its scientific observation, a critical...

MA 's best-known novel, The Wooing O't, titled from a song by Robert Burns , appeared in instalments in Temple Bar; in book form it appeared on 11 September 1873 under her new...

In 1859, the centenary of Robert Burns 's birth, CN published in the Daily Scotsman, and independently as an 8-page pamphlet, verses on the poet.

HMW published her Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade. (The bill was that of Sir William Dolben .) She sent a copies of her poem to Robert Burns (who...

Parts of CC 's critical biography The Life of Robert Burns (published this month and dedicated to her husband, Donald Carswell , and to D. H. Lawrence ) were serialised in the GlasgowDaily Record...

Burns returned the loan of MR 's commonplace-book, which he had read, he said, with much pleasure, just after the mysterious event which gave serious offence on both sides, and was to keep them...

She offered to dedicate the book to James Boswell , who suggested the child aristocrat instead. Few copies now contain the dedication.Burns helped to drum up subscribers, who numbered in the end...